HQ USAF Wargame Engineer

Department: SAS DAYTON, OH

Office: Joint Base Andrews

Location: Andrews AFB, MD

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Activity Supported:

USAF wargaming consists of multiple nested events that build upon each other in the study of force posture and design to achieve CSAF objectives. Each wargame consists of multiple task, functional, and cross-functional specific workshops, joint and combined operational planning events, table-top exercises, vignette driven explorations, and strategic forums. The Wargame Information Environment (WIE) is the collection of information technology tools and services that AF Wargaming uses to support its wargaming. GameNet is the deployable component of the WIE that directly supports wargame participants during game planning and execution. The WIE also comprises modeling and simulation (M&S), visualization, and other tools to enhance game planning, play, adjudication, data collection, and analysis.

Job Description:

• Designs, develops, and executes IT solutions

• Assists the development of applications to support wargame execution

• Deploys, assembles, and manages LAN server suites for several hundred clients

• Develops and maintains hardware, software, and network architectures

• Provides System Administrator assistance to wargame participants

• Develops IT-related training tutorials for participants

  Additional Job Description Information:

• Manages all aspects of the WIE and supporting technical team activities. The WIE is the collection of information technology tools and services that AF Wargaming uses to support its wargaming.

• Supports the design of wargames to meet a variety of purposes and objectives.

• Supports the development and tailoring of wargame scenarios and vignettes.

• Provides and maintains a high level of subject-matter expertise for wargame support, participation, adjudication, facilitation, and analysis.

• Participates in mission-partner wargames and workshops as required to provide subject matter expertise and stay apprised of activities in the military wargaming community.

• Provides technical and analytical expertise and support to investigate, analyze, and assess existing and emerging AF roles, missions, and capabilities, and those of sister-Services and Combatant Commands, for wargame design, objective analysis/assessment, manning, execution, and adjudication of gameplay; and to evaluate options for future AF force design and posture.

• Responsible for developing, maintaining, modernizing, managing, and employing the Wargame Information Environment (WIE) and related components. Manages all aspects of the WIE.

• Responsible for development, maintenance, support, enhancement, and modernization of the Government-owned GameNet system and deploy it to USAF-sponsored and supported wargame activities as required. GameNet includes M&S tools and business applications that support the wargame planning, execution, and data collection processes.

• GameNet specific tasks include:

• Systems engineering support in development, deployment, integration, verification, testing, maintenance, and demonstration.

• Automation of Business Process Management (BPM) design, and enhancement/support of business processes that are built into the wargaming collaborative environment. These include but are not limited to, workflows for Requests for Information (RFI), Objectives-based Observations & Insights recording, and Requests for Forces (RFF) processes.

• GameNet maintenance in accordance with current DoD information technology directives.

• Web based reporting of game forces to include the ability for users to search forces and track force movement during game execution through multiple stages of the wargame conflict to display:

• Status of units (i.e. combat readiness and capability)

• Status of logistical capabilities (e.g. maintenance, munitions and fuel)

• Supporting forces and how they are linking to supported forces

• Threats

• Ability to adjust units as force status changes

• Ability to search for adversary forces based upon a variety of parameters (i.e. geographic location or type)

• Maintenance and enhancement of a geographical information system (GIS) tool that displays the web-based reporting capabilities as well as force allocation, weather, threats, threat ranges, and force flow data accurately in the game. Additionally, GIS tool will incorporate additional information for visualization as directed, such as information created by other tools used for logistics or operational planning or execution.

• Building, maintaining, and managing a configuration control board (i.e. task prioritization list) for the purpose of prioritizing and managing updates and upgrades to the WIE environment.

• Responsible for maintenance/enhancement of collaborative workspace used to share information across GameNet.

• Creation, enhancement, maintenance and support of Network Tools throughout wargame cycles to assist in the management and support of the WIE, M&S tools and GameNet to remotely execute commands, push files, delete files, and push images and software updates to the entire network.

• Preparation of database architectures and data appropriate for the wargame scenarios, to include gaining appropriate releasability permissions. Additionally, developing and modernizing database architecture as wargame needs develop.

• Enabling the creation of wargame results reports to inform USAF and AF Futures analysis and decisionmaking processes.

• Maintaining an onsite, centralized, wargaming database for storing all relevant wargaming information, to include appropriate M&S data, searchable by epoch year, scenario, etc., at security classification levels up to TOP SECRET.

• With Software Developer, develops applications to integrate industry-standard modeling and simulation tools into GameNet, and developing custom tools to support game play, adjudication, and analysis, using the following technologies:

• Object-oriented programming languages, such as C# or Java

• Web servers

• JavaScript, JavaScript-based libraries such as jQuery, and other front-end frameworks for web development

• Full-stack Web application frameworks

• Object-relation mapping frameworks such as Entity Framework or Hibernate

• Database servers such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL

• Integrated Development Environments such as Microsoft Visual Studio or Eclipse

• Code versioning systems

• Error logging modules and handlers

• Microsoft SharePoint development tools

• Instant messaging services

• Multimedia production and editing tools

• Microsoft IT management tools such as Active Directory, Group Policy, HyperV, backup and restore tools, DNS, and KMS

• Analysis and geospatial tools such as ESRI Server

• Other emerging technologies as they become available

• Support the design of wargames to meet a variety of purposes and objectives.

• Provide and maintaining a high level of subject-matter expertise for wargame support, participation, adjudication, facilitation, and analysis.

• Participate in mission-partner wargames and workshops as required to provide subject matter expertise and stay apprised of activities in the military wargaming community.

• Aid Government personnel in engaging and integrating analytical organizations both internal and external to AF Futures and HQ USAF in wargames to develop and execute an objectives analysis plan.

  Required Skills/Education/Years of Experience:

• Shall possess a bachelor-s degree with a minimum of 10 years of related software development experience and developing technical tools.

• Shall have excellent communications skills in terms of writing and presenting briefings.

  Travel: Yes

  Security Clearance Required: TOP SECRET /SCI (TS/SCI) eligible security clearance is mandatory.

  Position Type: Full Time

  Salary Range: $143,000 - 178,000

  Work Location: The primary duty location is Joint Base Andrews, MD. Occasional work presence will be required at AF Futures spaces at the Pentagon, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, or elsewhere in the NCR, as mission requirements dictate.

  Agency submissions are not being accepted at this time.

  For more information on Sumaria Systems, please visit our website at www.sumaria.com.

  Sumaria is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status.

  Sumaria is a Full Lifecycle Engineering, Technical Services and Professional Solutions company in support of the Warfighter, supporting modernization, high end services and next generation capabilities in contested domains. Sumaria has been a trusted partner to U. S. Department of Defense for more than 40 years, providing Lifecycle Systems Engineering, Advisory & Analysis/SETA, C5ISR and Enterprise Information Technology solutions. With expertise to lead, insight to deliver and commitment to succeed; we staff each mission with a carefully selected team of seasoned professionals. We-re Headquartered in Peabody, MA, and have regional offices across the nation.

  Sumaria Systems only provides engineering services to the federal government and does not provide professional engineering or surveying services to the public within the meaning of Ohio Revised Code Section 4733.16.

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