Autonomy Experiments Planner & Operations Lead

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

Job summary

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

The specialist connects experimentation venues, ranges, operational units, government stakeholders, and vendors; integrates autonomy into Joint exercises and wargames; and converts lessons learned into training, capability, and fielding actions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and experience required.
• Four+ years of experience in operational planning, experimentation, exercise planning, test and evaluation, capability integration, or related field.
• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• Experience planning and executing complex DoD exercises, demonstrations, tests, ranges, wargames, or operational events.
• Ability to coordinate schedules, participants, equipment, access, safety, logistics, communications, and data collection across multiple organizations.
• Knowledge of autonomous systems, uncrewed systems, emerging technology, or 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

Operational planning

Experimentation planning

Exercise planning

Facilitation

Written communication

Stakeholder management

Microsoft 365

Work management tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in operations, program management, engineering, military studies, test and evaluation, logistics, or a related field

Job description

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

The specialist connects experimentation venues, ranges, operational units, government stakeholders, and vendors; integrates autonomy into Joint exercises and wargames; and converts lessons learned into training, capability, and fielding actions.