Operations Research Analyst

Operations Research Analyst

Help This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Acq Demo Business and Technical Management to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. As an Operations Research Analyst at the NH-1515-3 broadband level, some of your typical work assignments may include:

Serve as a Mission Execution Team (MET) Test Director or Training Test Director (TrTD) for the MET for complex mission defense flight tests. The duties are:

MET Test Director:

• Coordinating, integrating and synchronizing all activities necessary to plan and execute complex flight test events with multiple targets and/or multiple Missile Defense systems under test.
• Assisting Mission Directors in planning and Mission Test Directors in executing Flight Tests by establishing and optimizing priorities, and directing planning, readiness and/or execution activities of Missile Defense System test events in accordance with approved Test Policy and Concept of Operations.
• Supporting multi-disciplined teams in Flight Test planning and execution, and providing direction to those teams during all phases of the Flight Test Concept of Operations. Authoring critical test documentation, developing courses of action, and briefing detailed technical rationale to Senior Executive decision forums for approval.

Training Test Director:

• Support Training team to analyze mission execution documentation to develop off nominal situations to be executed during training sessions leading up to Dry Run, Dress Rehearsal and execution.
• Analyze MET documentation to build off -nominal training scenarios required to certify the Mission Execution Team (MET).
• Serve as classroom instructor for various test related topics relevant Missile Defense Agency testing.
• Evaluate and assist test personnel adjudication of Lessons Learned for each flight test.