Cyber Operational Planner III

Fort Meade, Maryland

Top Secret/SCI

Business Group Highlights
 

Defense

The Defense group supports the Department of Defense (DoD) mission to keep our homeland and its citizens safe. We provide solutions to improve the Nation's defense by providing software, systems engineering, IT, training and logistics and fleet management solutions.

Responsibilities
 

Support Readiness Training and Exercises for Joint Force Headquarters - Department of Defense Information Network (JFHQDODIN).

Monitors and reviews strategies, doctrine, policies, and directives to ensure compliance. Provides input to briefings, transitioning concepts to execution, and assisting in the coordination of operational planning in support of training, exercises, and operations. Provides input for the development of TTPs, CONOPs, COAs. Provides input to address shortfalls, prioritize and validate requirements, and to modify development planning efforts. Contributes to the development of exercise scenarios and exercise operational plans. Conducts research of current and emerging threats. Mentors mid-level and junior staff.

Provides feedback to design engineers and evaluates end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle. Working as expert, conducts research and evaluates technical performance of software products and overall segments and systems. Ensures products and systems comply with requirements and government information assurance and cyber security standards and practices through formal verification methods. Verifies/validates systems with specific emphasis on network operations and cyber warfare tactics, techniques, and procedures focused on the threat to information networks. Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. Prepares assessments and cyber threat profiles of current and planned products based on sophisticated testing, research, and analysis. Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements. Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they verify/validate the requirements. Develops and maintains analytical procedures to meet changing requirements. Produces high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for senior US government intelligence and operations officials.