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About the role
Database Development and Management
Design, develop, and build regional military, paramilitary, irregular, and civilian population entities into exercise databases and simulation environments.
Maintain change logs and version control for all database entries and associated exercise products.
Ensure database inputs accurately reflect approved exercise scenarios, operational environment requirements, and doctrinally appropriate threat portrayals.
Briefing Products
Update and maintain the Irregular Threat Slide and associated briefing products for use throughout Event Lifecycle phases.
Prepare briefing materials for senior leader engagements, planning events, working groups, and exercise execution requirements.
Ensure briefing products are clear, accurate, relevant, and aligned with approved exercise storylines and operational objectives.
OPFOR and Joint Coordination
Coordinate with Opposing Force and Joint partners regarding unconventional force operations and integration into the Supreme High Command Campaign Plan.
Participate in Operational Strategic Command Military Decision-Making Process and war-gaming activities.
Prepare and deliver back-briefs of Irregular Forces plans to the Operational Strategic Command Commander and other leaders as required.
Support coordination across exercise planning teams to ensure irregular force activities are synchronized with broader campaign objectives.
Force and Network Development
Develop detailed Irregular Force and Criminal Network orders of battle.
Produce background materials, biographies, doctrine summaries, capabilities assessments, weaknesses, and operational patterns for use during Warfighter Exercises.
Build realistic threat networks that reflect irregular warfare, insurgent, criminal, paramilitary, and hybrid threat behaviors.
Ensure force and network products support operational realism, exercise objectives, and approved storylines.
OPORD and Annex Reviews
Review, recommend additions or deletions, and assist in drafting Irregular Forces Annexes to Operations Orders and exercise orders.
Ensure annexes and related products are logically consistent with approved storylines, current doctrine, operational environment design, and exercise objectives.
Coordinate recommended changes with appropriate staff sections, storyline authors, OPFOR planners, and exercise leadership.
Storyline and Intelligence Coordination
Coordinate with storyline authors to define intelligence support requirements tied to Irregular Forces and criminal networks.
Support the integration of intelligence requirements, threat indicators, and operational triggers into exercise storylines.
Ensure irregular and criminal network activities are integrated into the broader operational environment in a realistic and exercise-relevant manner.
Research and TTP Development
Conduct classified and unclassified research on emerging irregular tactics, techniques, procedures, threats, and trends.
Identify and recommend replicable inputs for exercise storylines and training events.
Translate current and emerging irregular warfare concepts into practical, scenario-based exercise injects and operational activities.
Attack and Action Planning
Plan, script, and coordinate Irregular Forces attacks and adaptive operations for scripted and competitive scenarios.
Ensure planned actions are doctrinally realistic, logically consistent, and appropriately synchronized with exercise control requirements.
Coordinate with relevant exercise agencies to ensure safe, effective, and accurate portrayal of irregular, insurgent, terrorist, and criminal network activities.
Warfighter Exercise Work Area Command
During Warfighter Exercises, function as the Work Area Commander for Work Area Uniform , with duties including but not limited to:
Acting as Brigade Commander of Special Purpose Forces Brigade and making operational and tactical decisions for assigned sub-units.
Acting as Commando Brigade Commander and making operational and tactical decisions for assigned sub-units.
Commanding militia, guerrilla, and other specialized units assigned to the work area.
Coordinating terrorist, insurgent, irregular, and adaptive operations with Red Senior Control, SDD, and other agencies.
Ensuring the portrayal of operational environment activities is doctrinally correct, logically accurate, and aligned with approved exercise objectives.
Deliverables and Documentation
Produce, update, and maintain Irregular Threat Slides.
Draft and maintain OPORD annex inputs related to Irregular Forces.
Develop force and background packets, attack plans, intelligence requirements, storyboards, After-Action Review inputs, and other exercise artifacts.
Ensure all deliverables are accurate, timely, complete, and aligned with contract and exercise requirements.
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