The Role
Supports cyberspace operational planning and fires integration across DoD activities. Develops OPLANs, OPORDs, FRAGOs, CONOPS, targeting products, and capability-pairing recommendations. Coordinates cyber, intelligence, operations, targeting, and technical inputs across organizations; supports exercises, crisis-action planning, target boards, current operations, and approval processes. Analyzes threats, vulnerabilities, operational constraints, and capability gaps while producing briefings, assessments, decision papers, and lessons learned for planners and leadership.
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Description of Task to be Performed:
AnaVation is seeking a Cyber Planner to support one of our cybersecurity programs in the National Capital Area.
The Cyber Planner will independently support cyberspace operational planning and fires integration across operational planning activities. The position will apply demonstrated experience with multiple internal organizations processes, capability pairing, and cyber threat mitigation to develop planning products, coordinate operational requirements, and provide recommendations to planners and leadership.
The successful candidate will independently execute assigned planning activities and coordinate across multiple organizations to integrate cyberspace capabilities into operational plans and exercises. This position supports cyberspace operational planning activities in accordance with established organizational planning processes and guidance.
Responsibilities include:
- Independently develop and coordinate assigned portions of cyberspace operational plans and supporting planning products.
- Integrate OCO capabilities into DoW planning efforts.
- Develop and coordinate OPLANs, OPORDs, FRAGOs, CONOPS, courses of action, concepts of support, and related planning products.
- Conduct and support target nomination, target development, validation, prioritization, deconfliction, and assessment activities.
- Coordinate cyber capability pairing and synchronization with operational objectives and targeting requirements.
- Integrate intelligence, operations, targeting, cyber capability, and technical inputs into operational planning.
- Support fires coordination and targeting boards, including preparation of briefings, recommendations, and decision-support products.
- Participate in exercises, crisis-action planning, and current-operations activities.
- Coordinate with multiple internal and external components and relative partners.
- Analyze cyber capabilities, threats, vulnerabilities, and operational constraints and incorporate findings into planning recommendations.
- Identify operational capability gaps and develop recommendations for requirements, capability development, and planning priorities.
- Serve as a liaison between technical SMEs and operational planners to facilitate understanding and employment of cyber capabilities.
- Develop lessons learned, assessments, point papers, briefings, and other products for operational and leadership audiences.
- Support the transition of approved future-operations planning products into current operations.
- Support applicable cyberspace operations review and approval processes in accordance with governing policy and guidance.
Required Qualifications:
- Clearance: U.S. Citizen; TS/SCI w/ Poly.
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree, Cyberspace Operational Planners Course (COPC), or related experience.
- Certifications: Required
- Location: Full-time on-site in MD.
- Experience and knowledge:
- 7+ years of relevant experience supporting DoW, military, intelligence, cyberspace operations, targeting, or operational planning activities.
- Demonstrated experience integrating cyberspace capabilities into DoW related planning.
- Experience developing or substantially contributing to OPLANs, OPORDs, FRAGOs, CONOPS, courses of action, concepts of support, and related planning products.
- Experience supporting the targeting cycles, including target nomination, development, validation, prioritization, deconfliction, and assessment.
- Experience supporting target boards, activities, exercises, crisis-action planning, or current operations.
- Experience coordinating and synchronizing operational, targeting, and cyber capability inputs across multiple organizations.
- Knowledge of cyberspace operations and the integration of offensive cyberspace capabilities into operations.
- Knowledge of cyber threat environments, adversary capabilities, attack methods, vulnerabilities, and operational effects.
- Understanding of targeting methodologies, capability pairing, target systems analysis, target materials, and collateral-effects considerations.
- Knowledge of fires, targeting organizations, command relationships, and interorganizational coordination.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Clearance: Active TS/SCI w/Poly.
- Education: Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, National Security, or a related field.
- Certification: DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II or applicable equivalent certification.
- Experience and Knowledge:
- Demonstrated experience independently integrating OCO capabilities into future operations planning.
- Experience with target development, target systems analysis, capability pairing, or advanced targeting.
- Experience working in SAP/STO or other controlled-access operational environments, where applicable.
- Experience developing senior-level briefings, decision papers, lessons learned, and operational assessments.
- Experience supporting DoD exercises and operational planning events.
- Relevant military education, cyber/targeting training, or equivalent professional development.
Benefits
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
About AnaVation
AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.
If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you!
AnaVation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship
- Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance with polygraph eligibility
- Bachelor's degree, Cyberspace Operational Planners Course, or related experience
- 7+ years of relevant experience supporting Department of War, military, intelligence, cyberspace operations, targeting, or operational planning activities
- Experience integrating cyberspace capabilities into Department of War-related planning
- Experience developing or substantially contributing to OPLANs, OPORDs, FRAGOs, CONOPS, courses of action, and concepts of support
- Experience supporting targeting cycles, including nomination, development, validation, prioritization, deconfliction, and assessment
- Experience supporting target boards, exercises, crisis-action planning, or current operations
- Experience coordinating operational, targeting, and cyber capability inputs across multiple organizations
- Knowledge of cyberspace operations and integration of offensive cyberspace capabilities
- Knowledge of cyber threats, adversary capabilities, attack methods, vulnerabilities, and operational effects
- Understanding of targeting methodologies, capability pairing, target systems analysis, target materials, and collateral-effects considerations
- Knowledge of fires, targeting organizations, command relationships, and interorganizational coordination
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, National Security, or a related field
- DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II or applicable equivalent certification
- Experience integrating offensive cyberspace operations capabilities into future-operations planning
- Experience with target development, target systems analysis, capability pairing, or advanced targeting
- Experience working in SAP/STO or other controlled-access operational environments
- Experience developing senior-level briefings, decision papers, lessons learned, and operational assessments
- Experience supporting DoD exercises and operational planning events
- Relevant military education, cyber/targeting training, or equivalent professional development
- Full-time on-site work in Maryland
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The Company
What We Do
AnaVation is a trusted partner that delivers high-value, cost-effective solutions to solve our customers’ most complex technical and analytical problems. AnaVation believes that the future of securing, collecting, processing, and analyzing cyber data will require the development of advanced ANAlytical technologies derived via the innoVATION of current and future technologies. AnaVation believes in the “Idea of the Possible” — that it is possible for our experts, partnering with our customers in the right environment, to create innovative technical solutions that expand our customers’ capabilities. We want to do two things for our customers. We want to resolve existing challenges and we want to prepare them for the future. Our technical expertise and innovative engineering culture enable us to do those things.
