Capability Strategist, Missiles
Core
Own the fires and targeting capability strategy for long-range strike, land-attack, and anti-ship missiles, translating warfighter needs into engineering requirements and business development narratives.
Role type
Senior IC capability strategist (missiles & fires)
Builds
Strike missile products and fires mission area capabilities for US Army and joint force
Domain
Defense, long-range fires, targeting, and missile systems
Required skills
long-range fires planning, targeting and weaponeering, collateral damage estimation, battle damage assessment, joint targeting cycle, adversary threat analysis, CONOPS development, scenario design, stakeholder engagement with US Army and joint fires community, proposal and win theme development, simulation modeling, intelligence integration
Preferred skills
experience with US and allied SOPs/TTPs, experience with intelligence community products (NASIC, DIA, MSIC, ONI, NGIC, MCIA), mentoring capability strategists and analysts
Technologies
mission-level simulations, modeling parameters, scenario constructs, red force order of battle
Responsibilities
Define and maintain capability strategy for long-range strike, land-attack, and anti-ship missiles; translate warfighter needs into requirements, trades, and test objectives; articulate operational context for business development and marketing; build and hold relationships across US Army and joint fires community; shape product roadmap and capture priorities; translate concepts of operation into mission engineering design; identify unmet operational needs and generate capability concepts; enable translation of intelligence community products into modeling parameters; lead blue force CONOP-informed scenario development; maintain awareness of adversary threats and TTPs; brief capability assessments to senior leadership and government customers; partner with engineers and data scientists; mentor team members; support classified data exchanges; support programs spanning DoD, DARPA, and commercial customers