OIE Planning Lead: Strategic Information Operations

CACI; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 79,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

The Operations in the Information Environment (OIE) Planner at CACI contributes to high-impact missions by developing, integrating, and sustaining mission-ready planning products. You will work across geographic and functional commands to ensure information effects align with commander intent, while embedding risk considerations and delivering decision-quality assessments to senior leaders.

This role requires a TS/SCI with polygraph and completion of advanced OIE-relevant training, enabling

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 5+ years of experience planning, coordinating, synchronizing and/or executing operations in the information environment.
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience in military planning processes including JPP, military decision-making process, joint targeting process, and/or military campaign planning.
• Proficient in standard military software applications and communication systems.
• Completion of advanced OIE-relevant training such as FA30 Information Operations Qualification Course, Joint Information Planners Course, OPSEC Planners Course, MILDEC Planners Course, PSYOP Planners Course, and/or Joint Targeting School.

Responsibilities

• Integrates OIE objectives into campaign and operational plans, ensuring information effects align with commander intent and operational design.
• Synchronizes information forces and capabilities with maneuver, joint fires, and non-kinetic activities to achieve desired effects in the information environment.
• Designs, authors, and integrates OIE OPORD inputs, annexes, appendices, tabs, and supporting planning products into joint planning and execution.
• Integrates intelligence, targeting, and collection requirements to inform OIE planning, execution, and decision-making.
• Develops and incorporates measures of performance and effectiveness, evaluation frameworks, and assessment plans to support continuous monitoring, adaptation, and refinement of OIE activities.
• Coordinates and synchronizes OIE planning and execution with interagency partners, allies, coalition forces, academia, industry vendors, and DoD/DoW stakeholders to ensure unity of effort and de-confliction.
• Integrates DoD/DoW Rewards Program planning into OIE efforts to incentivize desired behaviors, enable information collection, and support operational objectives in accordance with authorities.
• Ensures legal, policy, attribution, and operational risk considerations are embedded in OIE plans while producing decision-quality OIE assessments, briefs, and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Conducts senior/executive-level briefings to GO/FO/SES decision-makers to secure approval for OIE concepts, plans, and operations.

Skills

Strategic planning

Joint/operations planning

Briefing senior leaders

Education

Bachelor's degree in Strategic Communications, International Relations, Political Science, Behavioral Science, Military Science, or other relevant field

Tools

Military software applications and comm systems

Job description

The Operations in the Information Environment (OIE) Planner at CACI contributes to high-impact missions by developing, integrating, and sustaining mission-ready planning products. You will work across geographic and functional commands to ensure information effects align with commander intent, while embedding risk considerations and delivering decision-quality assessments to senior leaders.

This role requires a TS/SCI with polygraph and completion of advanced OIE-relevant training, enabling