EW Planner, Senior
The Opportunity
As an expert in defense missions, your unique background inspires you to think bigger, push further, and ask questions others don’t. We need your extensive industry knowledge and advisory skills to guide teams as they solve some of our clients’ most complex problems—and find solutions that keep our nation safe.
About the Role
Shaping how forces understand, protect, and dominate the electromagnetic spectrum across the theater. Assessing the electromagnetic environment to uncover patterns in spectrum usage, identifying congestion, and detecting unauthorized or hostile activity that could jeopardize operations.
Responsibilities
- Develop spectrum management plans that balance operational demands with regulatory and technical constraints, ensuring commanders have reliable and resilient access to critical RF and EMS resources.
- Collaborate with EW units and intelligence partners to design and integrate EW tactics and techniques that exploit adversary vulnerabilities and enhance friendly spectrum superiority.
- Prepare contingency plans for jamming events, electromagnetic pulse disruptions, and cyber threats targeting EMS infrastructure, ensuring forces can maintain freedom of action in contested environments.
Requirements
- Experience with electromagnetic warfare (EW) or electromagnetic spectrum operations.
- Experience assessing the electromagnetic environment, including identification of interference, congestion, unauthorized transmissions, or hostile EMS activity.
- Experience collaborating with EW, intelligence, or cyber units to support the development of EW operational plans or policy.
- Experience developing courses of action employing unconventional or asymmetric approaches.
- Knowledge of joint operational planning processes and the integration of EW effects into operational planning.
- Ability to analyze complex EMS data sets to identify trends, vulnerabilities, and operational risk indicators.
- Ability to develop contingency procedures for EMS disruptions, including jamming, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) events, or cyber-attacks against EMS infrastructure.
Qualifications
- TS/SCI clearance.
- Master’s degree and 10+ years of experience with Joint Service planning or Bachelor’s degree and 14+ years of experience with Joint Service planning.
Skills
- Nice if you have:
- Experience at the Combatant Command level.
- Experience translating complex operational problems into clear, concise briefings and reports that directly inform planning and operations.
- Experience facilitating working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between different subordinate commands and staff sections.
- Joint Electronic Warfare Operations or Joint Spectrum Management certification.
- Completion of Service EW Officer or Planner courses.
Benefits
At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.
Pay
The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD).
Schedule
Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.