Senior Maritime Surface Warfare Operations Analyst
SAIC · Kaiserslautern
SAIC is seeking a qualified Naval Surface Warfare Officer specialized in Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) to support the US Air Force Collaborative Operations for Battlespace Resilient Architecture (COBRA) program in Kaiserslautern, Germany as a Maritime Surface Warfare Operations Analyst (Senior).
COBRA is the premier agency responsible for implementation, integration, and development of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and training and analysis standards that support the US Air Force (USAF), Department of Defense (DoD), and mission partners by providing the Warfighter a full-spectrum training environment.
This position supports the USAFE-AFAFRICA Warfare Center (UAWC) at Einsiedlerhof AS, Germany. Success in this position directly impacts the training readiness of USAF, Joint Force, and Allied military forces in Europe and across the globe. Duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Support the operational and technical aspects of maritime Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) integration into Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) scenarios to exercise and validate planned air and missile defense designs, concepts, and procedures.
- Prepare, coordinate, and present Maritime Surface Warfare briefings.
- Lead Maritime Surface Warfare discussions with a wide range of audiences as requested by the Government.
- Provide Maritime Surface Warfare operations expertise for all UAWC supported training exercises and events.
- Support Tier 1-4 exercises including, but not limited to, large force exercises integrating joint, combined, allied, and other partner nations’ forces in an air, land, and sea battlespace, and support smaller scenarios integrating specific capabilities.
- Generate documents and mission materials in support of exercise scenarios. These include, but are not limited, to Naval Operational Taskings (OPTASKs), Air Operations Directive (AOD), Airspace Control Plan (ACP), Air Tasking Order (ATO), Airspace Control Order (ACO), Area Air Defense Plan (AADP), Special Instructions (SPINs), Orders of Battle (OOB), red air plans, briefings, and mission cards.
- Perform White / Blue / Red Force functions during execution of Tier 1-4 exercises and training events with virtual and constructive models. These include but are not limited to: Future Force Experimentation Air Defense Simulation (FFEADS), International Simulation (ISim), Modern Air Combat Environment (MACE), and Next Generation Threat System (NGTS).
- Lead all aspects of Joint Event Life Cycle (JELC) planning, including concept development, planning conferences, mission planning, white force briefs, mass briefs, execution, debriefs, and after-action report completion with the exercise audiences.
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