PSYOPS Exercise Planner

• Provide advisory support about specific tasks, processes, or functions, and performs to the organization’s "best practice" standard. Contractor shall be capable of providing reports, technical guidance and mentorship to civilian and military organizations and skilled in analyzing scenarios for requirements and solutions that are in compliance with organizational requirements. Demonstrated expertise and knowledge of Mission Command, Military Decision-Making Process, and other operational planning functions are essential.
• Have a thorough understanding of the specific role(s) that simulation support provides during a joint training exercise to include: Exercise Roles, Exercise Task Organization, Exercise Policies, Required administrative and IT Support, Army Dialogue, Web Based Software (and applicable data), automations equipment needed for replication of USASOC unit in order to provide timely and credible results to enhance effective decision making at all levels of agencies/units participating.
• Support a 4th POG furnished synthetic internet environment that provides a full-range, free-play, immersive, realistic, and scalable operational practice environment in which warfighters simultaneously train on full-spectrum cyberspace operations and social media analytics during integrated and multi-dimensional exercises.
• Maintain a synthetic internet training environment capability that replicates key aspects of the Internet to provide training exercise designers, planners, and participants with the ability to realistically replicate the unique impacts of online publicly available information (PAI) and other social media into training scenarios.
• Provide staff with the training necessary to operate simulated Internet environments. These include the Information Operations Network (ION) and Synthetic Internet Training Environment (SITE). The Contractor shall adapt to current and future technologies employed by 4th POG throughout the life of this contract.
• Provide end-user training to military, government, and contractors to ensure user-level competency for systems and tools used to support synthetic training environment. These include the Information Operations Network (ION) and Synthetic Internet Training Environment (SITE). The Contractor shall adapt to current and future technologies employed by 4th POG throughout the life of this contract.
• Provide staff with the necessary training to operate approved social media tools for the collection and analysis of information. The list below includes but is not limited to SOCOM approved social media tools:
  • AtmosphereX
  • DiGs
  • OpenIO
  • Babel X
  • Dataminr
  • Dunami
  • Kalibr
  • Scraawl
  • Social Media Scanner
  • SURF
  • Snap Trends
  • SocioSpyder
  • GOSSIP
  • CAVEICE
  • M3S
• Incorporate commanders' training objectives and tailor digital training environment to the appropriate scenarios.
• Script and develop customized dynamic, exercise-specific content to produce a rich, scalable operational environment to support multiple SOF mission sets.
• Provide real-time feedback, recommendations and perform after-action reviews to enhance operational effectiveness related to cyber-enabled activities.
• Support automatic sentiment-driving content generation capability able to realistically generate social media responses and activity around a topic to drive population” sentiment as desired by exercise scenario developers.
• Maintain virtual audiences associated with specific user-defined themes that drive sentiment from the start of an exercise and enable sentiment shifts as dynamic injects are made.
• Ensure dynamic injection of data/content during scenarios to meet shifting training and exercise objectives, including social media posts, large video, photo, and audio files produced by exercise role players.
• Shall provide Information Operations support for annual USASOC exercises that align with Commander’s training objectives.
• Provide support in exercises by replicating Information Operations actions within the scenario and events of the exercise in the form of storylines and MSEL Injects.
• Provide Public Affairs-type support to exercises, in the form of exercise newspapers, video news briefs, and on-camera interviews for 4th POG. The Contractor shall replicate Public Affairs (PA) operations within the scenario and events of the exercise. Script events-based media queries for information.
• Prepare and publish an exercise newspaper and electronic media containing hypothetical media responses to exercise events.
• Design a social media site for the exercise. Appearance, features, and full functionality of the following:
  • Five (5) social media sites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and VK) with realistic features and functions, including geo-location data where it aligns with the replicated application’s capability
  • A search engine capable of conducting internet searches that will return realistically broad search results
  • A dark web capability with at least one (1) virtual marketplace, three (3) forums, and three (3) chat rooms
  • An email capability (Gmail-like)
  • A video-sharing site (e.g. YouTube)
  • An online auction site
  • A crowdsource funding site
  • Multi-player gaming communication with peer-to-peer encrypted chat (the working game is unimportant)
  • Discussion blogs
  • Multiple major news media services, including websites complete with RSS feeds and the ability to host/enumerate emerging crises (breaking news relevant to the training scenario) AND user-created news content (independent scenario-specific news websites)
  • Business, government, and non-government organization websites as relevant to the exercise scenario.
• Develop a process for scraping features to pull PAI content from them Internet for injection as haystack/noise for concealing scenario-specific scripted content.
• ensure the protection of residual data from exercise scenarios that cannot be found on commercial systems or hardware used once exercises are complete.
• Replicate an environment in which methodologies and tools for collecting and analyzing online information can be practiced and refined and ensure online exercise activities do not impact the general public and remain strictly within the exercise environment.
• Provide deep-dive reports as required on historical/contextual perspective of customer issues/topics and identify trends/provide analysis. As needed.
• Provide updates on the status of ongoing projects to Government personnel on at least a weekly basis.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor's degree. Ten years of related military experience may substitute for an academic degree.
• Special Skills/Qualifications Required: Graduate of a U.S. Military Officers Education System course above entry-level training: Captain Career Course, Intermediate Level Education, Basic Warrant Officer Course, Warrant Officer Advance Course, or equivalent. Or graduate from one of the following U.S. military Noncommissioned Officer Education System courses: Advanced Noncommissioned Officer Course, First Sergeant Course, or Sergeants Major Course.
• Minimal Background/Experience Required: Assignment to Special Operations Forces (Special Forces, Military Information Support Operations, Civil Affairs, Ranger Regiment, Special Operations Aviation, Special Mission units), or assignment to Military Intelligence. (Equivalent assignments within other Department of Defense military branches apply). Have a minimum of two (2) years of corporate experience and specific expertise working in the digital domain, using open source, social media, and the internet for research, influence, operations, targeting, and analysis. Shall be technology agnostic and have detailed expertise and past performance with different technologies to understand and exploit this space with operational relevance.
• Additional Desired Qualifications/Experience: One year of experience researching, planning, preparing, coordinating, and executing Mission Rehearsal and Command Post Exercises (MRX/CPX). One year of experience successfully served in a key position at brigade/battalion level (i.e., Executive Officer, S3, Operations Sergeant Major, etc.). Highly desirable to be retired lieutenant colonel (O-5) equivalent or above. Can be a senior Warrant Officer, (W-5) or sergeant major (E-9).

Company Overview

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  Medical, dental, and vision insurance and/or TRICARE supplemental insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Group and supplemental group life insurance
• AFLAC supplemental insurance
• 401(k)
• Workers’ compensation
• Direct deposit
• Post-hardship differential and danger pay
• Medical evacuation insurance
• Short-term and high-risk life insurance.