Information Environment Scenario Architect

Federal Sherpa, LLC; Leavenworth, Northern (KS, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Sherpa, LLC is onsite at Fort Leavenworth, KS, seeking an Information Environment Scenario Writer to craft realistic IE elements for Mission Command Training Program exercises, ensuring doctrinal accuracy and alignment with R&W and adjudication processes alongside BLUE and OPFOR operations.

You will design timelines, injects, content calendars, and artifacts such as social posts and mock websites, collaborate with storyline authors and SMEs, translate emerging TTPs into safe, replicable

Qualifications

• Education in Information Operations, Military Information Support Operations, marketing, public affairs, or journalism.
• BS/BA degree with 5 years of military experience, or High School and 10 years of military experience.

Responsibilities

• Assist in designing and replicating a realistic contested information environment (cyberspace, social media, media, perception management).
• Produce scenario timelines, injects, content calendars, and artifacts (e.g., social posts, threat website pages, multimedia products) suitable for both scripted and competitive exercises.
• Participate in adjudications for IE effects and support the Rules & Workaround (R&W) processes involving IO, CA, MISO, and PAO.
• Ensure IE effects targeting BLUE and OPFOR comply with R&W guidance, legal constraints, and exercise control guidance.
• Maintain continuous coordination with BLUE and OPFOR senior control elements to schedule and confirm IE effects are executed during requested/approved windows.
• Utilize the Information Operations Network (ION) to replicate the information environment, including social media presence, adversary-style messaging, and engagement patterns.
• Work closely with storyline authors, OPFOR, and intelligence SMEs to align IE content with overall exercise narrative, desired effects, and intelligence requirements.
• Conduct classified and unclassified research on emerging adversary information tactics and translate findings into replicable exercise inputs.

Skills

Information Operations

Social media analysis

Influence tactics

Content planning

Education

BS/BA degree

Info Ops education

Tools

ION (Information Operations Network)

Job description

Federal Sherpa, LLC is onsite at Fort Leavenworth, KS, seeking an Information Environment Scenario Writer to craft realistic IE elements for Mission Command Training Program exercises, ensuring doctrinal accuracy and alignment with R&W and adjudication processes alongside BLUE and OPFOR operations.

You will design timelines, injects, content calendars, and artifacts such as social posts and mock websites, collaborate with storyline authors and SMEs, translate emerging TTPs into safe, replicable