The United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Commander is designated as the Nuclear Command, Control, and Communication (NC3) enterprise lead with responsibilities for operations, requirements, enterprise systems engineering and integration, assessments and analytics, intelligence liaison and inspection and compliance. The NC3 Enterprise Center (NC3 EC) was recently established by the Department of Defense to execute these roles, responsibilities and enabling functions.

Artemis is recruiting NC3 Operations SMEs to assist the NC3 EC staff in the defining, developing and maintaining Global NC3 Enterprise Dashboard to track, monitor, report, analyze, and respond to NC3 operational issues. The NC3 SMEs will assess system performance trends and monitor threat environments to incorporate into NC3 operational risk assessments.  There are multiple positions open.  The work will be performed at USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, NE.

Main requirements:

·         At least 5 years’ experience and be currently qualified to provide operational assessment support for relevant NC3 capability requirements at the Secret, Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information classification levels.

Must possess at least one or more of the following requirements:

·         At least 10 years’ experience with NC2/NC3 capabilities and procedures, and experience in the operations platforms, communications, and modes of operations, to include current efforts, in developing survivable and endurable NC2/NC3 capabilities.

·         At least 10 years’ COCOM level experience participating in various NC2/NC3 forums to include by not limited to NC2/NC3 Issues Working Groups, Policy and Procedures working groups, and others.

·         At least 5 years of experience participating in various key NC2 forums (e.g. includes the NLCC Issues Working Group, NC3 Issues Working Group, NLCC Capabilities Integration Team, NLCC Executive Management Board, NLCC Senior Steering Group, Deputy’s Management Action Group (DMAG), Council on National Leadership Command, Control, and Communications System (CONLC3S), and others).

·         At least 5 years’ experience and be currently qualified to provide support for timely NC3 risk capability assessments and advice on mitigation options. Possess NC3 expertise and be familiar with the Joint Risk Analysis process and how it applies to NC3 enterprise at all levels. Be fluent in determining crosscutting methodology to measure risk for integrated systems and proficient in building risk metrics and apply/build framework for assessments.

·         At least 10 years’ experience translating guidance into operational requirements. Understand national, DoD, and CJCS guidance with specific knowledge of: CJCS Emergency Action Procedures, USSTRATCOM Emergency Action Procedures; CJCS Instructions - 6810.01, 6811.01, 3280.1, 3265.01, 5119.1; CJCS OPORD 2CY; PPD-35; PPD-24; PPD-40; and DoDI 5100.44. Personnel shall fully understand critical command and control requirements and operational concepts inherent in each of these documents and be highly competent at articulating interoperable capabilities that underpin NC2 and NC3.

·         At least 5 years’ experience with excellent auditory, written, and verbal communication skills supporting COCOM level administrative programs and providing operational support. Able to interpret national level directions and build operational level briefings as well as lead discussions.

·         At least 5 years’ experience at the Combatant Command, Joint Staff, or DoD OSD levels developing NC3 Center responses for Senior-level decision documentation and plans (CONOPS, OPLANS, OPORDs, and measured prioritizations).. At least 3-years’ experience staffing complex packages and adjudicating content.

·         At least 3 years’ experience working with, maintaining and extracting pertinent data from large data bases into spreadsheets, graphs, charts etc, to meet customer needs. Experience and training in one or more of USSTRATCOMs assigned UCP missions is highly desirable as is prior experience at the Combatant Command, Joint Staff or Service MAJCOM level.  An understanding of Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Instructions, Manuals, and nuclear Emergency Action Procedures.

·         At least 10 years’ experience with NC2/NC3 capabilities and procedures. Experience in the operations platforms, communications, and modes of operations. At least 5 years’ experience translating guidance into operational requirements with specific focus on identifying required standards and compliance criteria. Participating in various NC2/NC3 forums to include, by not limited to, NC2/NC3 Issues Working Groups, Policy and Procedures working groups, and others. Prior experience at the Combatant Command, Joint Staff or Service MAJCOM level is highly desirable. Possess excellent auditory, written, and verbal communication skills supporting HHQ- level administrative programs and providing operational support

·         At least 5 years’ experience as a scientist or engineer analyzing the interaction of complex systems of critical infrastructure including experience: 1. Performing scientific engineering studies and technical analysis of critical infrastructure and systems; 2. Performing computer modelling and simulation of nuclear weapons effects or electronic interactions with critical infrastructure; 3. Understanding of the technical, engineering and physical interaction of CBRN threats to critical infrastructure; and/or 4. Testing of and certification of critical infrastructure against a wide variety of physical threats.

·         At least 3 years’ experience staffing complex packages and adjudicating content and experience with NC2/NC3 capabilities and procedures, and experience in the operations platforms, communications, and modes of operations, to include current efforts, in developing survivable and endurable NC2/NC3 capabilities. Understand national, DoD, and CJCS guidance with specific knowledge of nuclear/CBRN survivability including: DoDI 3150.09. DoDI 3730.01, CJCS Instructions – 3222.01, 6210.01, 6810.01, 6811.01, PPD-35; PPD-24; PPD-40; and SI 501-2.