Operations Lead - Mission Protection
About The Position
The Operations Lead is a procedural and technical expert on systems performing Indications and Warnings (I&W) functions in defense of critical space assets and is responsible for enabling Battlespace Awareness and Mission Protection teams conducting 24/7 operators to succeed in a Space Warfighting domain. As the senior Battlespace Awareness (BSA) and Watch Operator (WO), you will maintain certification and readiness for these crew positions and guide the development of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and assist in course of action (COA) planning in support of mission protection. The successful candidate will maintain awareness on high-interest threat activity and support analysis, planning, training and exercise activities as an expert in space threat capabilities and orbital mechanics. Mission protection responsibilities include monitoring I&W systems, reporting threat risks and asset system operational statuses, critically analyzing threat pattern of behaviors, and identifying and mitigating intelligence gaps in adversary capabilities. The Operations Lead will work continuously to ensure existing and developing system tool capabilities are expediently integrated in current operational procedures, training materials and job aids. Additionally, the lead must understand system workflows, mission impacts during times of degradation and have the ability create temporary procedures for continuity of operations.
Requirements
- Minimum experience: 8 years with a BS/BA, 6 years with an MS/MA, 3 years with a PhD, or 12 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree. Experience must include space defense operations and/or space operations, including the use of flight safety or Indications & Warning (I&W) system tools (i.e., STK, ASW, DPS, DSS, MPS)
- Experience demonstrating applied knowledge of orbital mechanics, conjunction assessment or related satellite operations
- Experience with STK, DSS, SPADOC, ATLAS or ASW systems
- Active TS/SCI with adjudicated Poly
Nice To Haves
- 14+ years of combined prior space operations experience working as an orbital analyst, flight safety analyst, BSA, WO, or satellite mission planner at a ground station
- SME-level understanding of orbital mechanics, flight safety tools and mission applications
- 2+ years assigned National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) or partnered IC organizations
- Advanced knowledge of foreign/domestic space & ground threat capabilities and space surveillance networks with prior experience in tasking space surveillance resources
- Prior space launch custody and/or maneuver processing experience
- Understanding of command structure, command authority and warfighting doctrine
- Prior experience tasking space surveillance resources and processing space events
- Experience advising and collaborating with military and civilian leaders
- Prior experience leading operational teams and managing projects
Responsibilities
- Maintain dual certification in BSA and WO 24/7 crew positions and continue proficiency on applicable system tools (i.e., Systems Tool Kit (STK), and other I&W tools)
- Development TTPs, COAs and work to improve thresholds for checklist entry criteria
- Assist system integration efforts of latest I&W software tools and capabilities, guide alerting and entry criteria thresholds as a mission subject-matter-expert
- Report on operations capabilities, system degradation, latencies and statuses that may impact the mission
- Detect threat activity and maintain accurate terrestrial and space catalog databases
- Routinely create reports, products and brief leadership daily and ad hoc for ongoing space events of interest
- Analyze various satellite state position data sources, make pattern-of-life based assessments and report on vulnerabilities to mission assets
- Prioritize and execute collection tasking using available asset resources
- Participate in real world and exercise space event planning and execution efforts
- Maintain Awareness of current high-interest terrestrial and space-based activity affecting space domain
- Perform contingency tasks; initiate personnel recalls (when directed) and establish operations loops
- Identify any system or intelligence gaps and assumptions that may pose a risk to mission success and report, manage and mitigate those risks
- Work full-time on-site at a government facility in Springfield, VA
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
