Valiant Integrated Services is seeking candidates for a Space and Science & Technology subject matter expert (SME) to support the US Indo-Pacific Command's (USINDOPACOM) J81 Joint Innovation & Experimentation and J85 Science & Technology Divisions. The qualified candidate will collaborate with DoD, mission, and industry partners in the development, management, and assessment of high-fidelity space-based military capabilities, and in integrating nascent capabilities into exercises and experimentation events conducted by USINDOPACOM and subordinate commands in the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility (AOR).

Valiant is a global government services contractor with over 5,000 employees working across 120+ project sites worldwide. We deliver high-value solutions supporting complex, critical missions for customers around the globe, providing a diverse range of services to defense, aerospace, national security, and intelligence partners. With active operations across five continents worldwide and 54 states and territories (plus Washington, D.C.) in the U.S., we are equipped to mobilize resources and personnel to empower missions anywhere, anytime. Valiant has over 60 years of experience deploying expertise for our customers in Training, Simulation and Readiness; Critical Mission and Language Support; Advanced Logistics & Sustainment; Intelligence & Analysis Solutions; Global Contingency & Stability Operations; and Facility Modernization, Operations, and Maintenance. We are proud to deliver resources and capabilities that enable government departments and agencies, global peacekeepers, relief workers, and emergency response teams to complete their missions efficiently and effectively in some of the most complex environments across the globe.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Provide technical and operational space domain support expertise to the USINDOPACOM Innovation and Experimentation and Science and Technology Divisions.
• Facilitate joint exercise experiment integration from DoD, mission, and industry partners as they apply to the space domain, through continuous collaboration in executing joint exercise planning and experimentation process steps.
• Plan and coordinate test and execution events with USINDOPACOM, USSPACECOM, US Space Force, and subordinate commands, to facilitate all-domain AOR experiments in US and multilateral environments.
• Generate reports displaying technical performance metrics, risks, and assessments, and develop creative solutions to emerging and discovered operational challenges.
• Attend, coordinate, plan, and host events to collaborate and exchange subject matter information pertaining to tasking.
• Support the operational management of space-domain projects tailored to warfighter utility, contributing collaborative oversight to end-to-end capability development, operational demonstrations, test and evaluation events, assessments, and transition and advocacy efforts.
• Create concepts of employment (CONEMPs) and concepts of operations (CONOPs) to integrate and synchronize space-based technologies and capabilities with warfighter requirements.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Sharepoint, and NIPR/SIPR/JWICS networks to produce and maintain a wide variety of documents.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Combatant Command headquarters organizational structure, command policies and boards, bureaus, centers, cells and working group systems.
• Knowledge and experience with USINDOPACOM Operational Plans (OPLANs), Integrated Priority Lists (IPLs), and the Joint Event Life Cycle (JELC).
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in Space-domain operations, activities investments, as they pertain to the strategic, operational, warfighting, and scientific equities.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in rapid and accelerated technical capability development, test and evaluation, and transition process for DoD projects.
• Possess and maintain a working knowledge of parallel and competitive adversary systems and capabilities.
• Possess and maintain a working knowledge of emerging technologies and multidisciplinary fields and ecosystems, and their ability to integrate, interface, or facilitate the implementation of innovative capabilities and systems that would improve and enhance DoD warfighting objectives within the AOR.
• Must be comfortable interacting with senior government executives, military personnel, and other contractors performing staff functions and coordinating actions between various policy organizations.
• Must possess a current TS/SCI clearance.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain additional SAP and ACCM read-ins.
• US citizen must be able to obtain US passport.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's Degree in related technical field.
• 10 years' experience in space domain operations.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Some walking, bending, stooping, and carrying of objects, manuals, documents, and computer equipment.
• Travel percentage: 25%.