Strategy, Plans, Exercises, and Policy Support Services/Logistic

Description

U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) supports a unique joint staff planning need focused on integrating and synchronizing Department of Defense (DoD) military activities with United States Government (USG) strategy. Services include developing inputs to strategies, campaign plans, and concepts of operation that ultimately translate strategic and operational objectives into a series of related activities and operations to achieve desired end states in coordination with other DoD components, USG agencies, allies, coalition members and regional partners.

Duties May Include:

• Develop logistics plans, exercises, and training activities using the Joint Operational Planning Process (JOPP) and Joint Doctrine as outlined in Joint Publication 4-0 and 5-0.
• Synchronize and implement logistics planning with counterparts in USCENTCOM Component Commands, other Combatant Commands, the Joint Staff, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Defense Logistics Agency, and counterparts in other Federal Departments and Agencies.
• Provide logistics subject matter expertise on sustainment and logistics functions to operational planning teams and appropriate USCENTCOM staff.
• Support implementation, training and exercise, and planning efforts with logistics counterparts in USCENTCOM Component Commands, other key Combatant Commands, the Joint Staff, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and counterparts in other Federal departments and agencies.
• Collaborate with CCJ4 on strategic and regional logistics concerns.
• Provide analyses, recommendations, and draft products for logistics planners' approval in the development of analyses, estimates, exercise objectives, and briefings for primary staff.
• Provide technical recommendations to logistics planners regarding the Joint Operational Planning Process, Joint Operational Planning and Execution System (JOPES), Adaptive Planning and Execution (APEX), and Joint Doctrine.
• Support planning efforts requiring knowledge of military planning, training, and exercising techniques and procedures, and participate in a cross-Directorate team of joint, multinational, and interagency planners.
• Provide logistics expertise and write logistics equities and tasks into USCENTCOM plans and orders in accordance with Joint Publication 5-0.
• Develop and maintain a current logistics running estimate of the theater in support of the planning effort.
• Develop and maintain the status of the USCENTCOM Requirements Review Process projects, develop products in support of the review board, and coordinate between components, CF-KSA, host nation, the Joint Staff, and the Department of Defense.
• Provide coordination of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and Mandatory Declassification Reviews (MDR) according to legal standards governing the processing, declassification, and release of information from designated USCENTCOM files. This includes thorough searching of files controlled by CCJ5 for information relevant for government personnel to determine declassification and ability to disseminate information based on detailed knowledge of existing legal statutes, and advising CCJ5 on the FOIA and MDR Program in accordance with USCENTCOM directives to ensure plans and orders are properly safeguarded.

Requirements

• TS/SCI
• Bachelor's Degree and be a graduate from one of the following: Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS), School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW), or Maritime Advanced Warfighting School (MAWS).
• 5 years of strategic logistics planning experience; with a minimum of 3 years of experience at the Geographic or Functional Combatant Command Headquarters.