Autonomy Experiment Operations Lead

LMI Consulting, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 148,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Consulting, LLC seeks a Planning and Operations Specialist to support a Department of War J7 mission partner with experimentation campaigns that validate and field autonomous capabilities.

You will connect venues, ranges, units, and vendors; integrate autonomy into Joint exercises and wargames; and convert lessons learned into training, capability, and fielding actions. Strong organizational and coordination skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in operations, program management, engineering, military studies, test and evaluation, logistics, or related field.
• Four or more years of experience in operational planning, experimentation, exercise planning, test and evaluation, capability integration, or related field.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Experience planning and executing complex Department of Defense exercises, demonstrations, tests, ranges, wargames, or operational events.
• Ability to coordinate schedules, participants, equipment, access, safety, logistics, communications, and data collection across multiple organizations.
• Working knowledge of autonomous systems, uncrewed systems, emerging technology, or technical capability development.
• Experience developing event plans, objectives, measures, risk assessments, after-action reports, and action trackers.
• Strong facilitation, organization, written communication, briefing, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate autonomous-system experiments, demonstrations, test events, exercises, wargames, workshops, and operational assessments.
• Translate operational problem statements into event objectives, scenarios, mission threads, measures, data requirements, participant roles, and execution plans.
• Coordinate venues, ranges, airspace, safety, security, communications, equipment, logistics, travel, access, and other event support requirements.
• Synchronize operational units, combatant commands, Military Services, program offices, test organizations, vendors, laboratories, and industry partners.
• Develop integrated master schedules, event plans, execution checklists, risk registers, decision logs, action trackers, and readiness reviews.
• Support capability selection, technical integration, rehearsal, staging, and troubleshooting before and during events.
• Coordinate collection of quantitative and qualitative data, operator observations, test results, and mission outcomes.
• Facilitate after-action reviews and develop lessons learned, findings, recommendations, and corrective-action plans.
• Translate validated results into proposed changes to training, tactics, concepts, requirements, acquisition, fielding, and capability portfolios.
• Maintain continuity across experimentation cycles and keep open actions assigned, tracked, and closed.
• Prepare event briefs, read-ahead materials, status reports, executive summaries, and senior leader decision products.
• Identify opportunities to integrate autonomous capabilities into existing Joint exercises, wargames, and training events.

Skills

Active TS/SCI clearance

Microsoft 365 proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field

Tools

Event planning tools

Job description

LMI Consulting, LLC seeks a Planning and Operations Specialist to support a Department of War J7 mission partner with experimentation campaigns that validate and field autonomous capabilities.

You will connect venues, ranges, units, and vendors; integrate autonomy into Joint exercises and wargames; and convert lessons learned into training, capability, and fielding actions. Strong organizational and coordination skills are essential.