Primary Responsibilities
· Lead integrated campaign planning. Turn commander-level intent and mission priorities into operational approaches, lines of effort, objectives, tasks, measures, decision points, and synchronized execution rhythms for competition, crisis, and conflict.
· Generate and present ready forces. Translate supported-command demand and threat intelligence into force-generation priorities, mission-specific preparation, tailored force packages, readiness actions, resource trade-offs, and risk recommendations.
· Synchronize joint and combined operations. Integrate mission planning, operational intelligence, cyber effects and defense, communications, logistics, training, protection, and partner contributions to create an operational edge.
· Build resilient mission execution. Develop and validate continuity concepts, Primary/Alternate/Contingency/Emergency options, critical-service dependencies, infrastructure hardening priorities, reconstitution approaches, and mission-assurance actions.
· Connect operations to capability decisions. Convert operational deficiencies and lessons into prioritized capability outcomes, acquisition decision inputs, focused learning events, early-use objectives, operational-acceptance criteria, and fielding priorities.
· Shape concepts and training. Advance concepts of employment, mission-type orders, tactics, training objectives, and exercise scenarios that reflect current threats, large-scale operations, and joint or combined mission threads.
· Drive evidence-backed decisions. Create decision papers, option analyses, risk and opportunity views, readiness scorecards, event roadmaps, and concise leader briefings centered on mission effect, time-to-field, integration complexity, and operational sustainability.
· Maintain a continuous learning loop. Capture exercise and operational feedback, assign action owners, measure outcomes, challenge unsupported assumptions, and move validated insights into planning, training, resourcing, and capability delivery.
· Lead cross-functional planning events. Set agendas, frame decisions, facilitate working groups and planning teams, resolve dependencies, document decisions, and maintain accountability through the next mission or fielding milestone.
· Develop the planning team. Review products, coach less-experienced planners, establish clear quality standards, and model disciplined initiative in a high-tempo mission environment.
· Synchronize empowered stakeholders. Drive a high-tempo decision cadence across acquisition, contracting, finance, operations, intelligence, communications, engineering, test, cybersecurity, logistics, and industry participants.
· Lead through execution. Surface blockers early, assign evidence and action owners, challenge unsupported assumptions, mentor technical contributors, and maintain accountability through the next Government decision and transition milestone.