Non-Kinetic Effects Modeling and Simulation Planner

About the role

As a defense mission professional, you will develop innovative modeling and simulation solutions that strengthen Joint Force readiness and support missions critical to national security. In this role, you will plan, coordinate, integrate, and synchronize modeling and simulation capabilities to enable realistic representations of non-kinetic effects—including Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO), Electronic Warfare (EW), and cyberspace operations—within complex military space and Joint training environments.

You will collaborate with exercise planners, operational subject matter experts, mission partners, software developers, intelligence professionals, and government stakeholders to identify exercise objectives, determine non-kinetic effects (NKE) modeling and simulation requirements, and integrate capabilities that realistically represent offensive and defensive non-kinetic operations. Serving as a trusted advisor throughout the Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC), you will translate training objectives, operational scenarios, and threat representations into executable modeling and simulation plans supporting exercise design, planning conferences, execution, and after-action analysis.

Your work will improve exercise realism, enable tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) refinement, support operational concept development, and strengthen the Joint Force's ability to plan, execute, and assess non-kinetic operations in contested environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and integration of NKE modeling and simulation capabilities to represent electromagnetic and cyberspace effects against space, ground, communications, command and control, and supporting architectures.
• Support United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) training, experimentation, and Tier 1 Joint exercises by coordinating with stakeholders to identify exercise objectives and NKE modeling and simulation requirements.
• Translate operational and exercise objectives into executable modeling and simulation plans for exercise design, planning conferences, execution, and after-action analysis.
• Integrate NKE capabilities into Joint exercises by collaborating with government stakeholders, exercise planners, operational subject matter experts, intelligence professionals, software developers, and technical teams.
• Develop technical documentation, exercise support plans, executive-level briefings, and concepts of operation (CONOPS).
• Facilitate technical working groups, capability development working groups, planning conferences, and customer engagements.
• Travel up to 25% of the time to support exercise planning conferences, capability integration events, technical working groups, and exercise execution.

Requirements

• Experience supporting Department of Defense, Combatant Command, Service Component, or Joint exercise planning activities.
• Experience utilizing the Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC) to plan, coordinate, and execute Joint military exercises or training events.
• Experience planning, coordinating, or integrating Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO), Electronic Warfare (EW), cyberspace operations, or non-kinetic effects into military exercises or operational scenarios.
• Experience planning, coordinating, or integrating modeling and simulation capabilities into military training events, exercises, or experimentation.
• Knowledge of non-kinetic operations, including electromagnetic spectrum operations, electronic warfare, cyberspace operations, or their application to military space operations.
• Ability to translate operational and exercise objectives into NKE modeling and simulation requirements and executable technical solutions.
• TS/SCI clearance.
• HS diploma or GED.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting United States Space Command, United States Space Force, United States Cyber Command, United States Strategic Command, National Space Defense Center, Combined Space Operations Center, or other National Security Space organizations.
• Experience supporting Tier 1 or Joint exercises, including Initial Planning Conferences (IPC), Mid Planning Conferences (MPC), Final Planning Conferences (FPC), Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) development, exercise execution, and after-action activities.
• Experience developing or integrating scenarios involving electromagnetic interference, jamming, spoofing, cyber effects, communications degradation, command and control disruption, or other non-kinetic effects.
• Experience integrating live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) modeling and simulation capabilities into military exercises.
• Experience developing exercise scenarios that integrate NKE with Space Domain Awareness, Orbital Warfare, Missile Warning and Missile Defense, Command and Control, or Joint All-Domain Operations.
• Knowledge of modeling and simulation tools, frameworks, and environments used to represent EMSO, EW, cyber, space, or Joint operational effects (e.g., Systems Tool Kit (STK), Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM), Paladin, Swarm, Kronos).
• Knowledge of Python, MATLAB, C#, SQL, REST APIs, data federation architectures, or distributed modeling and simulation environments.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Space Operations, Military Operations, or Systems Engineering.

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
• Recognition awards program for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of company values.
• 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.

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). Salary is determined by various factors, including location, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, experience, contract-specific affordability, and organizational requirements.

Schedule

• Travel up to 25% of the time to support exercise planning conferences, capability integration events, technical working groups, and exercise execution.
• Work model varies by role: remote, hybrid, or onsite. Hybrid and onsite roles may require in-person collaboration at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• For virtual work, cameras are generally expected to be on during meetings to support engagement and effective communication.