Information Operations (IO) Planner / TS-SCI / Fort Meade, Maryland

Peraton is seeking an experienced Information Operations (IO) planner to integrate Information Related Capabilities (IRC), functions and tasks into all facets of US CYBERCOM’s level planning, and to ensure the command group and staff consider all IRCs in the decision-making process.

This position is located in Fort Meade, Maryland

You will have the opportunity to:

• Provide expert mission analysis, analytic problem solving, and assessment skills
• Creatively using all information systems and IRCs regarding
• Integrating interagency and intelligence community (IC)
• Develop innovative concepts to counter adversarial use of information in the Cyber and electromagnetic spectrum; and consider significant or key cultural aspects that affect operational and tactical planning, security, and risk assessments. 
• Review, analyze, and operationalize tactical and operational-level IO-related directives in support of maneuver elements.
• As a subject matter expert in all operations in the information environment, the candidate will apply technical skills to operational and tactical planning/execution, identifying, and tracking measures of performance thru attainment of measures of effectiveness, and providing advice concerning the application of all IRC capabilities during the development of operational concepts.

This position reguires an active TS/SCI Clearance and the ability to successfully obtain Polygraph.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 - 10 years of planning experience or a combined total of a minimum of 12 years between education and relevant service. Additional experience will be considered in lieu of education requirements
• Have a minimum of 5- 8 years of experience with IO planning at the service or joint level in support of operations at Combatant Commands or Joint Task Forces.
• IO (FA30) career field.
• Knowledge in joint operational planning process, military decision-making process, and military campaign plan planning, targeting processes and expertise in developing and accessing tactical and operational level MISO/PSYOP plans and orders.
• Knowledge of service departments (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force) functions and their relationships to the CCMD to coordinate all operations in the information environment in appropriate channels, e.g., Army, Navy, Air Force, or Joint with Experience with joint and/or combined military operations and interagency coordination and DoD, joint, and Army service doctrine, regulations, and policies.
• Familiarity with other core, supporting, and related IO competencies to assist USCYBERCOM planners is required.
• Must be an expert in oral, visual, & written communications and briefing techniques; must be able to effectively advise, negotiate and persuade various managers, military officials, and senior leaders; and must be effective at gaining acceptance of recommended concepts, ideas, guidance, policies, and regulations.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must possess a current U.S. Passport with at least a year remaining before expiration.
• Clearance: This position requires an active DOD Top Secret/sensitive compartmented information security clearance, based on current security background investigation and successfully obtain a Polygraph.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Recent joint or service level information operations planning experience
• Joint cyber operations planners’ course
• Joint information operations planner course
• Defense OPSEC planner course
• Special warfare advanced targeting and analysis course
• Special operations MILDEC planners’ course
• Irregular warfare course
• Capable of recommending changes to policy, force structure and design, and command relationships
• Proficient in integrating IRC capabilities into cyber plans and operations.
• Knowledge of military command relationships and command and control (C2) procedures.
• Able to coordinate MISO/PSYOP, EW, MILDEC actions within the proper channels and develop policies that incorporate the principle of C2.
• Should have a working knowledge of MISO/IO, Military Deception (MILDEC), operations security (OPSEC), electronic warfare (EW), and cyberspace operations missions, tasks, and overall warfighting functions that support operations, understand how to integrate joint warfare capabilities, and be capable of synchronizing activities of mutual concern.
• Experience with integrating, coordinating, and synchronizing adjacent and supporting operations, as well as developing support for related capabilities and their activities.
• Be familiar with, certified in, or have applicable operational/field time experience in:
• Military Deception (MILDEC)
• OPSEC
• EW
• Cyberspace operations
• Coordinating intelligence requirements
• Ability to engage senior leaders and staff and conduct complex briefings to large audiences.
• Ability to work effectively within a task organized working groups
• Expertise in planning, integrating, and coordinating with interagency and intelligence community entities.
• Adept at developing and utilizing information products that leverage current and emerging technologies to inform planning, improve coordination, and enable timely decisions.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.