Predictive Readiness Analyst at Apogee Solutions Arlington, VA

Apogee Solutions; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Apogee Solutions in Arlington, VA is seeking a Predictive Readiness Analyst to support the U.S. Air Force's Deputy Chief of Staff for Training and Readiness at the Pentagon.

The role includes assisting the Senior Predictive Readiness Analyst and serving as Assistant Team Lead for readiness analysis and reporting. Qualified candidates hold an active DoD Top Secret clearance and have extensive experience in modeling, simulation, and predictive analytics, with leadership in Air Force operations and

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance with DoD eligibility.
• Master's degree in modeling and simulation, OR in operations research, or related field.
• 10+ years of combined experience in readiness analysis at tactical, operational, and strategic levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise on agile model usage and analytical software.
• Assist in verification, validation, and accreditation of core readiness models.
• Maintain and improve databases and predictive readiness reporting tools.

Skills

Top Secret Clearance

Analytics leadership

Air Force operations knowledge

Education

Master's degree in modeling and simulation or operations research

Job description

Predictive Readiness Analyst job at Apogee Solutions. Arlington, VA.

Apogee Solutions is seeking a Predictive Readiness Analyst to support the United States Air Force’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Training and Readiness at the Pentagon. Qualified candidates must have a Top Secret clearance.

The Predictive Readiness Analyst will assist the Senior Predictive Readiness Analyst in all aspects of readiness and is the Assistant Team Lead. The Training and Readiness Directorate is the Air Staff’s focal point to assist, orchestrate, and implement readiness analysis actions for current and future operations across the Air Force, to include weapons system sustainment, operational training infrastructure, critical skills personnel shortages, flying hour analysis, and deployment ratios.

The Predictive Readiness Analyst will:

• Provide expertise on use and implementation of an agile model and analytical software.
• Demonstrate proficiency in adaptation, verification, validation, and accreditation of core readiness.
• Maintain and improve emerging technologies and respective databases to provide adaptive predictive readiness and readiness reporting analysis that enables data exchange automation with authoritative data sources.
• Maintain a configuration management plan and system documentation activity.
• Maintain document change proposals and emerging requirements.
• Maintain and update the current model and database sustained with required authoritative databases, as appropriate.
• Update and maintain requirements document based on current and future format and standards with each module's current and future capability.
• Provide software management to update and maintain adaptability to emerging requirements.
• Monitor the state of the authoritative databases used to incorporate DRRS lexicon and associated predictive analysis relevant data environments.
• Review, update, and provide the necessary self-paced guides and user manuals for system users to operate the system.
• Maintain and provide comprehensive support to a predictive readiness system users/user group.
• Maintain and provide support to increase predictive capability breadth and depth expanding tools, techniques, and expertise to fielded systems and/or systems matured in operational concept during this period.
• Maintain and provide dedicated effort to refinement and enhancements of the model/tool with focus on impacts resulting from resourcing and policy decisions under consideration in the flying hours, operational training, aircraft availability and weapons system sustainment trade space, comparing to and aligning with real world collected data.
• Maintain and update a predictive modeling approach with the necessary breadth and depth to analyze Combat Air Force (CAF), Mobility Air Force (MAF), Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), Special Operations (SOF), Personnel Recovery (PR), Command and Control (C2), Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), Space, Cyberspace, and any other force elements.
• Recommends, identifies, and selects appropriate model, computer program, database, or similar tool to employ in order to answer questions characterized by variable which are multidisciplinary, cross-domain, complex, non-linear, and ever-changing.
• Provide means and methods to generate legitimate representations of the readiness phenomena in environments characterized by ambiguous and incomplete data.
• Identifies the role of non-linear influences and to adequately consider interdependency and co-dependency within the variable sets.
• Addresses feedback loops and the influences they have on the generation of vicious and virtuous cycles.

Required Experience

• Active DOD Top Secret Clearance
• Masters in modeling and simulation, operations research, or other related field
• Minimum of 10 years of combined experience to include readiness analysis at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels as well as prior military staff experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in predictive analysis including corporate processes to operational readiness
• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading analytics teams and Air Force operations teams
• Extensive knowledge of Air Force Operations to include 3 years of experience in supporting Air Staff or an equivalent strategic level
• At least 1 year of experience in joint, combined, inter-agency positions
• Ability to direct team members in modifying, updating, and using computer generated models
• Capable of explaining and defending Air Force readiness analytic models, conclusions, projections, and data during annual audits