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SME RAS Operator and Exercise Planner

Global Planning Initiatives, LLC

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Job Requirements

Port Hueneme, CA
Secret Polygraph not specified
Early Career (2+ yrs experience)
$132,000 - $142,000

Job Description

This is a contingency hire pending contract award.

The company. GPI performs Joint and Navy planning, provides expertise to Joint, Allied, and Fleet operational exercises and training, and provides new technical solutions such as Robotic Autonomous Systems (RAS). GPI prepares clients for the future operational environment, focusing on new technical solutions including unmanned systems, non-kinetic effects, space, and synthetic training.

Area of Responsibility:
• All areas of responsibility listed below are essential to the satisfactory performance of this position by any/all candidates, with reasonable accommodation, if necessary. Work responsibilities may vary, depending upon assignment.

General Functions/Duties:
• Perform operations integrating robotic autonomous (RAS) systems.
• Successfully train to safely and effectively operate assigned systems.
• Safely conduct launch and recovery operations for assigned systems.
• Conduct maintenance on assigned systems in cooperation with technical SMEs.
• Develop and recommend operational and tactical-level guidance for the use of unmanned systems to achieve mission success.
• Develop schedules; plans of actions and milestones (POA&M); creation of products for planning, coordination, collaboration, or presentation; and other duties as assigned.
• Plan exercises involving RAS.
• Facilitate participation in Exercises, experiments and other events as necessary to ensure explore, test, revise, and/or iterate planning actions.
• Provide expertise and support on applicable Doctrine, Tactics Techniques and Procedures (TTP), Concept of Operations (CONOPS) or Concept of Employment (CONEMP), and event After Action Reports (AAR).
• Serve as part of an operations team with attention to government and contractor guidance.

Experience Required:
• Retired or separated E-5 to O-4 or similar experience
• Tactical military experience
• Required: Working level knowledge and skill of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and
software. Experience working within an MS Windows environment. Experience working with MS
Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook and use of the Internet.
• Fluent in reading, writing and speaking English. Professional communication and interpersonal
skills and proficiency in writing and editing skills to include text organization, style editing,
punctuation, grammar and spelling.
• Active SECRET clearance required, U.S. citizen

Experiences preferred (One or more of the following):
• Exercise planning experience
• UAS, UUV, or USV
• Robotics
• Platform/craft control and deconfliction
• Targeting/Fires

Education:
• The minimum educational requirement is a Bachelor's degree in a related field or an Associate’s Degree in a related field and four years of specialized experience or a High School diploma and eight years of specialized experience.

Start date: Contingency hire, pending contract award and defined start date in late 2026/early 2027
group id: 91074145