Tralfaz Opportunity, San Antonio, TX Information Operations Analyst,
ALCON, – Resumes are required ASAP – Urgent Requirement
The position is under contract and requires an immediate fill.
- Current TS/SCI clearance is required.
- Small move allowance could be provided to selected candidate meeting the requirements.
- Salary offer will be very competitive.
Information Operations Analyst Supporting JMSE:
- Provide required analysis of military IO capabilities with emphasis on the use of both friendly and adversary military capabilities, systems, tactics, techniques and doctrine to achieve operational or tactical surprise, mask avenues of advance, cover weaknesses and gain advantages for Joint and or Coalition Forces during crises or time of war by influencing key adversary military decision makers. Analysis of red teaming efforts may also be performed. In some instances analysis of friendly and adversary networks may be required.
- Apply commercial and government technologies in information management, project management, visual information display capabilities and models to conceive and implement effective military IO plans for use in crises or war.
- Perform short-suspense analyses for implementation, modification or construction of military IO plans in the JOPES environment. Analyses/planning includes use of information/intelligence from open-source and classified intelligence community services/products.
- Perform maintenance, updating, and overall quality control of military IO annexes to JOPES CONPLANs and OPLANs using commercial information management tools.
- Develop specific actions to implement military IO plans. Organize and conduct JFC’s staff meetings to assimilate ideas during planning and organize, facilitate and enable military IO plans during crises or war. Use state-of-the-art information technologies and systems to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of these tasks.
- Develop and implement Command and Control plans for military IO activities.
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years experience in DoD Information Operations.
- Knowledge of Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) planning process.
- Experience in any of the elements of IO; electronic warfare, military deception, psychological operations, operations security, destruction, computer network attack, and computer network defense. General experience in all these areas is desired and specific experience in military deception, operations security, or psychological operations is most desirable.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in conducting IO analysis and research, and in management and analysis of all-source national and tactical military intelligence.
- Ability to formulate solutions and make recommendations based on the analysis and research.
- Experience with the application of web based data mining, analysis, and visualization tools to IO and associated special operations.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use of ION and/or SIAM.
Education: B.S. degree:
General Experience: Typically has 4 to 6 years experience in an engineering discipline such as industrial, civil, aviation, aerospace, electrical, mechanical, nuclear, chemical, information, computer, software, marine, environmental, telecommunications, information security, network, or other engineering disciplines.
Specialized Experience: At least 3 years leading engineering efforts and supervising engineering staff involved with the application of engineering disciplines in the technical field directly related to the required area tasking being supported.
Looks like fun.
Hey! Isn’t that you?
God help you if you try to lead a group of engineers. Many have called it similar to herding cats. Most equate it to mud-wrestling with a pig.
Still, I suppose there are worse things you could do.
– Max
San Antone’s got the JIOWC and has a very few people who ‘get’ IO as more than just bits/bytes/packets/electrons. I understand they’re working on something I was interested in a while back. I’ve got a contact or two from my old job who may be of use in asking questions from a distance.
The field is moving fast in many directions, not all of them good. My interest is more the things that this KSG paper talks about, but that’s a tiny tiny area of very large discipline. I think there’s vertical movement possible in that world; however, it’s a bizarre one to live in.
San Antonio’s also got lots of Air Force types, so there’s that.
oooh, life in a free state with a “castle doctrine” and “shall issue laws. ” tempting.
dw (from PRK)
I gotta ask-what is a “shall issue” law?
I can’t even spell IO-but I do know JOPES
Foe-get-it. Small print sez: “Ideal applicant must be PC platform and MS Office proficient.”
;-P
-SJBill
Skippy-
“Shall issue” basically means you walk into the sheriff’s office and say, “I’d like to have a concealed carry permit, please!” and they respond by saying, “I shall issue you one immediately, good sir!”
/used to have one in VA.
//kinda regrets living in CA.
Don’t you have to do a background check?
Don’t you have to do a background check?
Yep, ya do, and get printed in most states, and there may be a training requirement. But, meeting the requirements and being a person of good standing you will be issued a permit. Quite a change from the days when the main requirement was knowing the right “somebody”
Budget is policy. Or really cleaver policy is whatever the most powerful person on a team, no matter how dumb they are, says it is. Don’t submit a report that will upset a mind-guard, group-think self-appointed chief-of-staff sycophant PowerPoint-Warrior that works directly for the boss unless you have the ability to stomp their lights out.
Remember what happened to the red force guy that sunk a bunch of Navy ships in a wargame right before OIF. They refloated the fleet and pressed on as if it didn’t happen and everything was written up as a glowing success.
Like any job, “Now Hiring” also = “Now Firing”. If there was one, ask what happened to the last guy that had the job.
They forgot: “Reports to V.P. of Acronyms”
Mr. Lex, (is that appropriate now?, Ive been out of circulation recently and am unsure of your status.) this will seem as incomprehensible to you as your prospective ‘job’ descriptions are to me, but….
There is something to be said for going home at night with the satisfaction of working a real job. There are goods and services, the primary sector and the secondary sector, etc. etc. however you slice the pie. Then there are the government ‘jobs’*.
Now some might possibly be considered ‘services’, like the Post Office (three employees/ supervisor??? Yeah, right). But most? Like the one you’re interested in? I often wonder how the possessors of such jobs sleep at night. Truly. But once a gummint man, always a gummint man, I guess.
Stretch yourself, Lex – get a real job. You won’t regret it……much, I hope ; -)
*Oh – I should clarify – those phony jobs not actually on the official gummint payroll but given to private contractors, usually as part of some sordid Congressional Pork – phoney jobs that produce multistory buildings full of unread ‘reports’, ‘studies’ and the like are, I’m sure you’ll agree, really gummint jobs, only with the limits on waste, pay, expenses, overhead, etc. bypassed.
Oh, I’m not interested in moving to San Antonio. I just get these things in the mail all the time and some of them have excited comment. Thought this one might as well.
hey lex, you might try the airlines. A couple of my first flight instuctors got picked up by the regionals in ’03 and are now first officers on 737s. They’re looking at a pilot shortage and all that.
I dunno pard, the notion of being 47 years old and sleeping on the floor of a reserve flop in Atlanta hoping for the phone to ring and tell me that I’m on for that right seat, Christmas Eve red-eye for $30k a year (plus per diem) doesn’t stir me like it once did.
Lex;
Caught a glimpse of this crew on the Today show this morning, while wandering by the idiot box:
Starfighters.
Seems like, if you could beg your way in, you could still have the chance to do Mach 2 for real, not trying ini a rebuilt AT-6 or sumthing like it…
Have to get the family to buy into Tarpon Springs, FL, but…it’s kinda like CA here, without fires, but with bigger hurricanes.
“and some of them have excited comment”
And posting?
re- “The position is under contract” .
That is significant for this type of work. If you go for this you have to go to work- like yesterday. It ain’t a resume hunt to qualify in competitor status.
Ops analyst. You’re at least a senior ops analyst.
My opinion? this ain’t for you because of the level offered- not the job itself. Only YOU know what you want to do..But I didn’t know you were interested in being an IT management geek, although I suppose it can pay well.
That’ll be $10.00.
b2
Captain, my captain … couple of things you might want to factor in to job offers from Texas. Anywhere in Texas. #1 … Texas has no state income tax — ahhh, the freedom from paying twice. How sweet it is. #2 … we may have the death penalty [and sometimes, my libertarian friends, it is definitely needed], but it serves as somewhat of a deterrent to the most brutal craziness. #3 … we only allow our state legislature to meet and impose crazy new laws every OTHER year, which keeps the craziness in check to some extent. #3 … Texans cherish their guns, understand them and what they should be used for, and train their kids from early ages to use them responsibly. Not a lot of news stories about kids under ten years of age shooting other kids under ten years of age because they found Daddy’s gun and decided to play with it. Texans are avid hunters and they eat what they kill, and field dress it and even make venison sausage from some of it. Oh, did I mention that they have no state income tax here, which keeps the crazed state lawmakers somewhat in check?
San Antonio is a pretty city, with lots of right thinking military, both retired and not yet retired. I used to go there once a month to judge orchids, many of them grown by retired military. Have to say it was fun.
Marianne Matthews
Lex , I’m in the advice for money game ( a most noble profession, indeed) and usually refrain from giving unsolicited ( read Free ) advice on the theory that such advice…like an oral contract is not worth the paper it’s writen on…but circimstances have now forced me to make an exception.
The topic of what you might do when you leave the service has generated loads of well meaning suggestions . Obviously what you intend to do after the service is none of my buseness …and truth be told, I don’t really care.
My only suggestion, not advice, is to take some extended time off…to decompress from almost three + decades of military/naval life. You have a well deserved pension and a working Spousal Unit… take the time just this once…you won’t regret it.
Best
Hey Lex, just got done posting a similar message over at Chap’s place since he’s been discussing the same sort of deal, but thanks for discussing this. As a ready to go soon to be butter bar, it’s useful to get a reminder every now and again that there in fact is a life after the military.
Mike, Most of us here were butter bars once …relax, keep your eyes open, your mouth shut and enjoy it…you are about to embark on a great adventure…
Yup, that’s what I’m planning on doing and hoping for.
Tralfaz.
Wasn’t that a name that Bugs Bunny used in a cartoon to name a horse or a dog at the races?
Any company with a name coined by Bugs Bunny can’t be all bad.
Subsunk
Old–but there is no legal authority for hiring “intelligence analysts,” they must always be hired under the guise of “information systems.” Hence the sometimes strange requirements of the postings.