Description
Contribute to the strategic direction of the business and support impactful mission outcomes as a Special and Tactical Operations Leader - Aviation at GDIT. Here, you'll enable the success of the most critical government missions and the growth of a meaningful career in Administration.
As a Special and Tactical Operations Leader - Aviation, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Digital Analytics Infrastructure and Technology Advancement (DAiTA) Group Warfare Effectiveness Department (WED). You will play a crucial role as a team leader, developing procedures, reviews work products of other team personnel, managing project efforts and taking the lead in problem resolution.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Applies knowledge from experience as a fixed-wing or rotary wing military aircrew or equivalent civilian experience to identify, define, and document technical data for weaponeering, NATOPS, and NTRP (NATIP) products for Naval tactical aircraft and associated weapons systems.
- Provides analysis of operational suitability of naval aviation platforms, weapons, sensors and systems.
- Supports system level warfighting assessments and effectiveness analysis; advanced concept employment analysis; analytic support for the pre-acquisition, acquisition, and sustainment of Navy, Joint, and allied systems acquisition process; or modeling and simulations for operational analysis.
- Develops, prepares, and manages material required for the operator to safely and effectively employ the aircraft and its weapon systems. Requires the ability to develop and present Naval Aviation Missions and Capabilities (NAMC) training seminar material to DoD personnel.
- Analytic expertise to support technical exchanges, briefings, and workshops in support of recommended tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). May require qualification as contract flight crewmember IAW OPNAVINST 3710.7.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED
- Education: MS/MA degree with specialized military systems training.
- Additional Requirements: Electronic Attack Weapons School (EAWS) graduate
- Experience: At least twelve (12) years of recent professional experience with EA-18G and/or EA-6B aircraft as a pilot or Weapon Systems Officer (WSO) is required.
- Security clearance level: Active Top Secret
- US citizenship required
- Role requirements: 10% Travel required
- Performance Location will be at Whidbey, WA State
- Timeline: This is a contingent position expected to start in late summer of 2027
BENEFITS
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance