Undersea Warfare Ops Analyst — CONOPs & Systems Insights

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) is seeking an Operations Analyst to provide technical contributions and leadership to support undersea warfare initiatives and national security objectives. The role focuses on analyzing CONOPs for USW/ASW platforms and sensors, evaluating performance, and delivering annotated briefings to DoW/Navy sponsors.

Applicants should have a Bachelor's degree with five+ years of relevant experience, strong analytical and leadership abilities, willingness

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with five or more years of relevant USW/ASW operational/technical experience.
• Analytical, operational, problem solving and organizational skills.
• Willing to travel (occasional 2-3 day trips or week long tests).
• Active Top Secret clearance; U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and evaluate CONOPs of Undersea Warfare (USW) and Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) platforms and sensors.
• Provide problem definition, requirements and metrics development, system assessment, analysis of mission success, and documentation.
• Work with analysis teams and systems authorities to evaluate measures of performance and measures of effectiveness for USW and ASW systems.
• Evaluate factors such as system performance, logistic requirements, costs, operational impacts, and potential CONOPs, with results in reports and annotated briefs for DoW sponsors.
• Interact with DoW and Navy staff to facilitate task execution and prioritization.
• Brief sponsor or DoW command staff on insights and possible participation in field tests or sea trials.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Willing to travel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) is seeking an Operations Analyst to provide technical contributions and leadership to support undersea warfare initiatives and national security objectives. The role focuses on analyzing CONOPs for USW/ASW platforms and sensors, evaluating performance, and delivering annotated briefings to DoW/Navy sponsors.

Applicants should have a Bachelor's degree with five+ years of relevant experience, strong analytical and leadership abilities, willingness