Job Description:

 

RiverTech an Akima Company, delivers space situational awareness and satellite surveillance services that protect and defend sea, land, air and space operations and their personnel. Providing the talent, tools, and technologies to ensure exceptional performance in today’s most demanding and strategically critical global environments. This is RiverTech. Our personnel enjoy competitive benefits packages and challenging roles in work environments committed to innovation, diversity and opportunity for career growth. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), 100% of our company’s profits go back to our 14,300 Iñupiat shareholders that have resided near and above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years. Our business helps support their way of life and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived in a challenging environment.

 

 

Job Summary: 

 

The duties of the Electronic Warfare/Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses/Integrated Air Defense Systems (EW/SEAD/IADS) Lead include and not limited on all missions related to Electronic Warfare and all its associated mission sets for exercises hosted by or supported by the Distributed Mission Operations Center (DMOC) at Kirtland AFB, NM.  
 
The EW/SEAD/IADS Lead shall support planning meetings, develop and execute test plans, develop scenarios, and ensure internal systems are functional prior to event execution. During execution, the EW/SEAD/IADS SME shall bring credible expertise in electronic warfare mission areas for white force execution, operation of high-side environment generators, operation of virtual systems identified in government directions document, interact and be familiar with Air Operations Center support, and participate in scenario review to ensure desired exercise learning objectives are achievable.

 

 

Responsibilities :

• Translation of operational electronic warfare training requirements into exercise design, build and execution and will support requirements definition for Virtual and Constructive simulations, scenario generation tools, mission planning tools, interactive system requirements, and exercise collaboration tools.


• Work with system engineers to plan, coordinate support for, and execute system integration testing and will operate selected constructive simulators, within the DMOC, to support site/system integration and Virtual Flag/other exercise scenario executions.


• Cover all US electronic warfare mission areas (EW, SEAD, DEAD, IADS) with regards to exercise planning, development and execution to support warfighter training requirements across the joint services and coalition partners.


• Interface with other military SMEs, from other weapons systems, to form a theater level exercise that challenges the missions facing our DoD today and in the future. Having downrange experience will be extremely beneficial in understanding how operational and tactical C2 interfaces with the weapons systems of each service and their roles and responsibilities within each of the various theaters of operations.


• The SME will be best served by having a grasp of current threat replications within the modeling and simulation environment and having an awareness of simulator limitations with regard to system capabilities.


• The SME can expect to support 4 Virtual Flags annually with one involving coalition partners, specialize warfighter focused events, C2 weapons school training and other events with specialized training objectives. Due to the nature of connecting Virtual Simulators from around the world, the candidate will need to be open to technical understanding of military networks, Combat Air Force Standards, disparate simulator protocols and connectivity requirements within the Distributed Mission Operations construct.

 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• MS (Applied Statistics, Operations Research, Mathematics, or related discipline) with 3 years’ experience; BS in same fields with 5 years relevant experience; or No degree with 10 years relevant experience.


• Must understand exercise design, development and training principles associate with Air Force Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (AFTTP) mission threads.


• Familiar with ATOs, ACOs, SPINs, TNLs, ACP, AOD, RTL, JMSEL, etc.


• Experienced with Mission Planning tools (PFPS, JMPS, Falcon View, etc.)


• Test/Engineering background – Operational (OT) and/or Developmental (DT)


• Experienced with various military networks; DMON, JTEN, ARCNets, etc.


• Knowledge of Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)


• Experience in Net Enabled Weapons (NEW) mission planning and execution


• Formal flight school instructor / flight evaluator / Weapons School Graduate


• Understanding of DMO network architectures, Information Assurance requirements and DMO standards, Constructive Force Simulation Generators, Simulator operations, LVC operations; protocols, enumerations, Distributed Information Sharing 


• Active Secret clearance

 

 

Desired Qualifications:

• Flight lead / IWSO during a major exercise – Red Flag (Nevada or Alaska), Northern Edge, etc.

 

 

The duties and responsibilities listed in this job description generally cover the nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position.  This is not intended to be a complete list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required.  Subject to the terms of an applicable collective bargaining agreement, the company management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as may be necessary.  We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for the position; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

 

We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender or gender-identity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

 

 
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