Virtual Neptune Hawk Operations Planner

Join our Deloitte AI & Engineering team to transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work you'll do

The VNH Operations Planner serves as a specialized Project Officer supporting the planning, preparation, execution, and evaluation of Virtual Neptune Hawk events within a simulator setting. Reporting to the NH Team Lead and collaborating with the broader NH Team at JBPH-H, this position focuses on operational planning for both simulated and live NEPTUNE HAWK exercises, as well as other directed events. The planner ensures realism and relevance in simulation scenarios, contributes to after-action reviews, and supports mission success through technical and operational expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• VNH Event Planning and Execution
• Support the Active Duty NH OCE Lead planners and NH Team Lead throughout the full VNH Joint Exercise Lifecycle.
• Coordinate the development, integration, and execution of realistic scenarios in simulation environments, including intelligence, logistics, and AOC-like functions.
• Design threat presentations, create simulated orders of battle, and develop scenario injects to engage participants.
• Support after-action review processes to identify improvement areas in simulated operations.
• Technical and Operational Expertise
• Work with high-fidelity combat simulator design and functionality.
• Integrate live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) elements into exercise planning.
• Translate real-world operational concepts into simulation environments, focusing on tactical aircraft and Air Battle Management.
• Security and Compliance
• Maintain strict security protocols, handle classified material accountability, and adhere to SAP/STO and ACCM eligibility requirements.
• Keep security clearances up-to-date and comply with polygraph and indoctrination agreements as required.
• Communication and Liaison
• Prepare and deliver briefings for Senior Officers and external agencies on simulation capabilities, ongoing operations, planning issues, and exercises.
• Coordinate with national-level agencies, DoD, Combatant Commands, and intelligence agencies for exercise integration.
• Program Support and Evaluation
• Provide system-specific training to STO personnel.
• Evaluate SAP capabilities for integration and realism.
• Serve as focal point for STO program activities and documentation.
• Participate in live-fly NEPTUNE HAWK events when duties permit.

The team

Our Industry Solutions clients seek verticalized solutions that transform how they sell products, deliver services, generate growth, and fulfill mission-critical operations. The Industry Solutions offering delivers integrated business expertise with repeatable scaled technology solutions that are specifically engineered for each sector's IndustryAdvantageTM.

Qualifications

Required:

• 5+ years of rated experience in fighter/bomber or ISR aircraft, or Air Battle Management
• Experience in simulator environments
• Experience with scenario generation, scripting, database manipulation, and LVC integration
• Bachelor's degree required
• Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility security clearance required
• SAP/STO and ACCM eligibility
• Ability to pass CI-scope polygraph examinations
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Ability to travel 15-25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clientsandindustries/sectorsyou serve

Preferred:

• Operational Experience
• 10+ years rated experience in fighter/bomber or ISR aircraft, or Air Battle Management
• 15+ years of Air Force experience and multiple years of exercise planning
• Mission commander, pilot, or ground support experience in simulator environments
• Familiarity with Virtual Warfare Center (St. Louis) and/or Joint Simulation Environment (JSE)
• Experience with scenario generation, scripting, database manipulation, and LVC integration
• Recent (last 5 years) tactical aircraft operations and exercise coordination in simulator environments
• Combined Air Operations Center or operation contingency planning experience
• Specialized Skills
• Background in Special Access Programs (SAP) and STO Planning
• Experience submitting SAP/STO paperwork and supporting simulator security
• Graduate of USAF Weapons Instructor Course or Navy Top Gun
• Familiarity with military experimentation and Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO)
• Completion of IJSTO Planning and Decision Aide System users' course

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $113,325 to $188,875.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.