Tactical Analyst II

Core Responsibilities

• Advise government and commercial technology developers on military doctrine, tactics, operational planning, and future employment concepts.
• Translate operational problems into technical requirements that inform software, AI, robotics, autonomy, and decision-support system development.
• Research doctrine, historical operations, emerging conflicts, and future warfare trends to answer customer questions and inform system design.
• Evaluate proposed capabilities against realistic operational requirements and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Support the development and refinement of methodologies used to assess Human-Machine Teaming performance.
• Evaluate emerging technologies through the lens of human performance, trust, workload, decision quality, mission effectiveness, and operational utility.
• Aid in developing new analytical methods for measuring technology effectiveness within military organizations.
• Support experimentation that validates how technologies integrate into existing military processes and future operational concepts.
• Develop realistic tactical scenarios supporting experimentation, demonstrations, synthetic environments, and live exercises.
• Produce military planning products including operations orders (OPORDs), fragmentary orders (FRAGOs), synchronization matrices, decision support products, and mission planning artifacts.
• Design representative operational problems that challenge emerging technologies in tactically relevant ways.
• Meet regularly with multiple government and industry customers to understand development goals, technical challenges, and operational questions.
• Translate customer objectives into actionable operational research, planning products, and technical recommendations.
• Present findings to technical and non-technical audiences including engineers, program managers, military leaders, and senior executives.
• Build long-term trusted advisor relationships across multiple customer organizations.
• Conduct independent research on doctrine, emerging technologies, future operational concepts, and lessons learned from modern conflicts.
• Identify emerging trends in autonomy, AI, robotics, human performance, and military decision-making.
• Contribute to white papers, concept papers, research proposals, and customer-facing technical products.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve how technology is designed, evaluated, and transitioned to operational users.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance.
• Former military officer (O4–O6 preferred) or senior enlisted leader with extensive operational planning experience, or equivalent government/industry experience.
• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
• Advanced education in military studies, engineering, operations research, AI, systems engineering, human factors, or related disciplines is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex operational concepts to technical audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities.
• Ability to independently research unfamiliar topics and rapidly develop defensible recommendations.