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CWIPS Sensitive Activities Subject Matter Expert (Space SME)

MAG Aerospace
Fort Bragg, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 8/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/3/2026
Position Summary:
The Sensitive Activities Subject Matter Expert (SA SME) provides expert advisory, integration, and instructional support to U.S. Army Special Operations intelligence formations conducting operations in irregular warfare (IW) environments. The SA SME assists and augments existing intelligence, cyber, and operational SMEs—including targeteers, cyber operators, and all-source intelligence professionals—by enabling multi-discipline, multi-domain target development and effects-based planning across the full conflict continuum. The SA SME focuses on the design, integration, and application of kinetic and non-kinetic options in support of sensitive activities, shaping operations, and competition below armed conflict while ensuring compliance with authorities, policy, and operational risk frameworks.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

  • Integrate sensitive activities considerations into the target development cycle, including target system analysis, effects identification, and operational feasibility.
  • Provide expertise on authorities, permissions, and risk management associated with sensitive activities and non-kinetic operations.
  • Contribute to assessments of operational impact, escalation risk, attribution considerations, and second- and third-order effects.
  • Train intelligence battalion staff on the role of sensitive activities across the competition, crisis, and conflict continuum, with an emphasis on shaping and enabling operations in strategic competition.
  • Educate analysts and planners on sensitive activities-specific target development methodologies, including indirect approaches, asymmetric leverage points, and activities designed to influence, disrupt, or enable outcomes without overt attribution.
  • Educate intelligence and targeting professionals on partner assessment, access development, and the sustainment of surrogate capabilities.
Requirements:
Minimum Requirements

Knowledge and Skills

  • Prior service in U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (SOF), Joint SOF, or interagency organizations supporting sensitive activities.
  • Experience supporting operations across the competition, crisis, and armed conflict spectrum.
  • Familiarity with cyber-enabled operations, information operations, influence activities, or other non-kinetic capabilities.
  • Experience supporting operational planning at the battalion, group, or joint task force level.
  • Minimum of 12 years of experience supporting U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (USASOF), Joint Special Operations Forces (JSOF), U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), or interagency organizations.
  • Minimum of 8 years supporting sensitive activities, Special Access Programs (SAP), or compartmented operational activities within SOF or interagency organizations.
  • Minimum of 5 years supporting operational planning, target development, or execution of sensitive activities across the competition, crisis, and armed conflict continuum.

Special Note:

The position is contingent upon candidate’s ability to meet physical and medical requirements as needed by the position; including compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local jurisdictional requirements.

Benefits and Compensation: At MAG Aerospace, we value your contributions providing our employees with a robust Total Rewards package that supports your total well-being. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 30 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in MAG's Total Rewards programs. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits as well as paid leave, professional development, and tuition assistance. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our Total Rewards Program by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site: https://www.magaero.com/benefits/. Salary at MAG Aerospace is determined by various factors including but not limited to location, the particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $80500 to $149500 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of MAG's total compensation package for employees.

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