Joint Exercise Space Planner

Job Title

SAIC is seeking an experienced Joint Exercise Space Planner located at Camp Smith in Hawaii to support the USPACOM J7 Training & Exercises Directorate with deep expertise in space operations, space effects, and multi-domain integration to lead Joint exercise planning work groups in integrating space capabilities, threats, and operational effects into live-force tactical training events across the Indo-Pacific theater.

This position requires occasional travel throughout the Pacific and to Service training centers.

Job Description:

• Provide subject matter expertise in Joint space operations, space capabilities, threat systems, and space-enabled effects relevant to tactical training audiences.
• Lead and mentor Joint planning teams to integrate space domain considerations into exercise design, scenario development, and training objectives.
• Coordinate with USSPACECOM and SPACE-PAC to ensure exercise space injects, effects, and threat portrayals align with current doctrine, operational realities, and theater priorities.
• Support live-force tactical training by integrating training aids and enablers, including LVC systems, emitters, tactical space range capabilities, and synthetic space effects.
• Advise planners on how space capabilities influence C2, targeting, ISR, communications, navigation, missile warning, and threat characterization during Joint operations.
• Role-play friendly or threat space components during exercise execution and adjust synthetic space injects to meet training objectives.
• Ensure space domain integration is synchronized with air, maritime, land, cyber, and information operations during Joint exercises.
• Maintain awareness of emerging space capabilities, threat developments, and Joint space doctrine to ensure PACOM exercises remain aligned with DoD-wide best practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors and ten (10)+ years of related experience; additional four (4) years of experience considered in lieu of degree.
• Demonstrated expertise in space operations, Joint operational planning, or multi-domain training.
• Experience integrating space capabilities and effects into Joint or Service-level exercises.
• Thorough knowledge of space system capabilities, limitations, threat systems, and operational impacts on tactical forces.
• Experience on a Combatant Command, Service component, or Joint Staff with responsibilities in space operations, targeting, or multi-domain integration.
• Demonstrated ability to translate training objectives into space-enabled exercise designs.

Desired Experience:

• Experience working with USSPACECOM, SPACE-PAC, or Service space operations units.
• Background in space control, orbital warfare, missile warning, SATCOM, PNT, or space-enabled targeting.
• Experience with Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) training, synthetic space effects, or tactical space range integration.
• Prior experience supporting Combatant Command-level exercises or Joint training events.
• Graduate of a Service space operations schoolhouse or Joint space qualification program

Required Clearance:

• Must have an active Secret clearance with ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Must be a current U.S. Citizen.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.