Tactical Aviation Mission Analyst
Role Overview
Experienced tactical aviation professional supporting evaluation of future air combat systems, weapons, countermeasures, sensing, and communications.
The role bridges operational aviation experience into modeling, simulation, and analysis; prior experience as a modeling and simulation analyst is not expected.
The team conducts mission-level analysis to inform acquisition decisions on precision strike technologies.
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Role overview
Experienced tactical aviation professional supporting evaluation of future air combat systems, weapons, countermeasures, sensing, and communications.
The role bridges operational aviation experience into modeling, simulation, and analysis; prior experience as a modeling and simulation analyst is not expected.
The team conducts mission-level analysis to inform acquisition decisions on precision strike technologies.
What you will do
- Apply tactical aviation experience to mission-level analysis of advanced air combat and strike warfare systems.
- Develop scenarios, mission vignettes, concepts of employment, tactics, and measures of effectiveness for aircraft and mission systems.
- Work with analysts, software developers, engineers, military operators, program offices, and decision-makers to frame questions and evaluate operational effectiveness.
- Learn and apply modeling and simulation tools to assess missions at system, system-of-systems, and force-structure levels.
- Interpret results, identify operational insights, communicate limitations, and brief technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute research on future air combat, strike warfare, electronic warfare, autonomy, teaming, and force employment.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in any field, or equivalent relevant military or professional experience.
- Operational experience in multiple aspects of tactical or test air missions, including planning, leading, evaluating, executing, or instructing.
- Experience applying or developing tactics, techniques, procedures, concepts of employment, mission plans, or operational test approaches.
- Ability to communicate complex operational concepts clearly with technical teams, government civilians, military officers, and partners.
- Comfort learning technical and quantitative analysis methods, including modeling and simulation, data analysis, scripting, or scientific computing workflows.
- Must be able to obtain Interim Secret clearance by start date and ultimately obtain Top Secret clearance; eligibility requires U.S. citizenship.
Additional qualifications
- Tactics officer, weapons officer, operational test professional, instructor, mission commander, or advanced weapons and tactics school experience is advantageous.
- Experience with modeling, simulation, operations research, mission analysis, data analysis, scripting, AFSIM, Brawler, or Suppressor is advantageous.
- Experience leading teams, mentoring, instructing tactical concepts, or developing others’ operational judgment is advantageous.
- Active Secret or higher clearance is advantageous.
About APL
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory works on defense, security, space, and science challenges.
The team emphasizes staff development, intellectual integrity, collaboration, and delivery of unbiased analysis.
Compensation
- Posted salary range is USD 100,000–245,000 per year.
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