CAS Air Force Writer / Intel Analyst

Valiant Integrated Services, LLC; Leesville, Northern (LA, KY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Integrated Services seeks skilled personnel to support USAF CAOC-like operations during exercises. Responsibilities include planning, briefing, and debriefing for CAS integrations in JRTC rotations, and producing mission data products such as ATOs, ACOs, SPINS, and DISUMs.

You will provide intelligence unit support to airlift and CAS platforms, participate in planning meetings, and compile AAR inputs for task forces on USAF/CAS effects. A degree and similar experience are required.

Qualifications

• Experience in preparation/executing/debriefing military exercise/training (such as JRTC rotations).
• Intelligence operations or aircrew experience in Close Air Support.
• Experience in numbered Air Force or higher headquarters.
• Experience working in an Air Operations Center or equivalent JRTC experience.
• Degree from an accredited college or university.
• Completion of Air Command and Staff College or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Participate in rotational planning meetings to assist Operations Group integrate CAS in JRTC rotations.
• Replicate CAOC functions, including production of ATOs, ACOs, and SPINS and processing pre-planned CAS requests.
• Produce DISUMs, INTREPs, ELINTREPS, and enemy Order of Battle daily updates as necessary and distribute them to exercise players.
• Provide intelligence unit support to participating airlift and CAS platforms.
• Participate in rotational planning meetings, conduct briefings as required and compile After Action Review (AAR) inputs to Task Forces on USAF/CAS effects.

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Air Command and Staff College or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

• Member of a five-man exercise USAF Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC), actively participate in scenario development processes to ensure appropriate air power integration.
• Monitor conduct of CAS missions and write analyses of those missions.
• Participates in rotational planning meetings in order to assist Operations Group integrate CAS in JRTC rotations.
• Responsible for replicating the functions of a CAOC, including the production of ATOs, ACOs, and SPINS and processing pre-planned CAS requests.
• Air Intelligence cell produces DISUMs, INTREPs, ELINTREPS, and enemy Order of Battle daily updates as necessary and distributes them to exercise players.
• Provides intelligence unit support to participating airlift and CAS platforms.
• Participates in rotational planning meetings, conducts briefings as required and compiles After Action Review (AAR) inputs to Task Forces on USAF/CAS effects.

Position Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Experience:

• Experience in preparation/executing/debriefing military exercise/training (such as JRTC rotations) and responsibilities.
• Intelligence operations or aircrew experience in Close Air Support.
• Experience in numbered Air Force or higher headquarters.
• Experience working in an Air Operations Center or equivalent JRTC experience.
• Degree from an accredited college or university.
• Completion of Air Command and Staff College or equivalent.

Additional Requirements:

• Must be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Able to travel unaccompanied to continental US and foreign locations.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• Must submit to and pass pre-employment drug screening; will be subject to random drug screening.

Valiant Integrated Services is an employer who hires in accordance with applicable state and federal law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment in compliance with those laws.

Valiant Integrated Services is an employer who hires in accordance with applicable state and federal law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment in compliance with those laws.