Job Description
Job Description
BOOST LLC is a dynamic management consulting firm that offers an array of government-compliant back-office solutions to support our teaming partners within the GovCon space. We are working with our client, Makai Defense to find their next highly skilled Application Support Specialist.
About Makai Defense LLC
Makai Defense LLC (Makai) is an NHO 8(a) that specializes in C5ISR services, DoD systems integration, business analytics, and the modernization of wired and wireless government networks. Makai provides professional services and technical expertise in mobile/edge computing (deployable 5G), systems engineering, cybersecurity, data migration and storage, software development (DevSecOps), and process improvement.
Position Summary
Makai is seeking an Application Support Specialist to support the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM) Model Management Office (MMO) contract. Your career at Makai enables the AFSIM MMO to fulfill its mission to “provide U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition, operations analysis, and research and engineering communities with an ever-expanding toolset to ease scenario and model creation, strengthen analytical conclusions, and enrich virtual wargaming experiences.” As a member of our team, you will support the corporate and customer mission to provide application support services for AFSIM MMO.
Responsibilities
- Provide subject matter or domain experts to advise or assist the MMO on the use of MMO products or services for Operations Research (OR)
- Advise or assist the MMO when communicating with key stakeholders to include sponsors, users, working groups, or communities of interest on product capabilities or methodologies to conduct OR in support of evidence-based decision making
- Advise or assist the MMO in the development of engagement threads, mission threads, and baseline scenarios that illustrate all-domain model integration and analysis
- Coordinate with community users, stakeholders, and product managers/owners to identify appropriate analysis measures, output formats, and digital workflows that derive mission engineering evidence, enhance V&V confidence, and convey analytical risk
- Support product development by researching and providing authoritative sources of data to support model development and validation.
- Advise or assist the MMO to implement effective and responsive governance processes. Processes should promote community-informed practices and encourage contribution from a variety of sources to include Government programs, industry partners, and end-users.
- Provide key stakeholders with awareness of analysis tool development plans and progress.
- Advise or assist the MMO to manage stakeholder expectations and ensure continued alignment with product vision and strategy to include addressing capabilities and limitations of MMO products related to statistical decision making.
- Drive stakeholder feedback to product backlog(s) to ensure responsive development priorities
Required Experience
- 5 - 10 years' experience
- Outstanding communication skills
- Well Organized
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) in simulation, integration and modeling
- Experience working with senior leadership
- Ability to initiate engagements with user stakeholders on a regular basis through established working groups or communities of interest
- Understanding of authoritative sources include, but are not limited to, Joint/Service doctrine documents, the Uniform Joint Task List (UJTL), joint planning documents, employment guides (TTPs), technical orders, and program offices
- Ability to harmonize governance practices with enterprise (DoD, DAF, AFMC, and/or AFRL) requirement management systems or governance bodies, and assist on issues of classification, releasability, marking compliance and data mobility
Required Education
- Bachelor’s degree in operations research
Work Arrangement:
- 100% onsite at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton Ohio
- Required to sit for extended periods of time and maintain focus
- Travel Requirement: 30%
Clearance Required: Secret Security ClearanceEstimated Compensation: $112,000 to $115,000 annuallyMakai is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.