Counter-Unmanned Systems (C-UxS) Operational Planner

Position Summary

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Work You'll Do

As a Project Lead Integration Engineer II on the project, you will:

• Integrate multi-domain C-UxS concepts of employment into Theater Campaign Plans, OPLANs, CONPLANs, operational orders, and MARFORPAC Operations, Activities, and Investments frameworks.
• Develop C-UxS planning products, appendices, annexes, and supporting estimates for operational and contingency plans.
• Synchronize C-UxS requirements across deployed MEFs, MAGTFs, Marine Rotational Forces, littoral formations, bases, ports, airfields, and expeditionary advanced bases.
• Incorporate high-threat unmanned-system scenarios into regional joint and Service exercises.
• Advise commanders and staff on C-UxS posture, readiness, risk, capability gaps, and resource priorities.
• Coordinate with the Joint Force Air Component Commander and Area Air Defense Commander to integrate Marine Corps counter-unmanned aerial system capabilities into the theater Integrated Air Defense System.
• Ensure C-UxS capabilities and associated data are represented in the Common Operational Picture and applicable joint command-and-control architectures.
• Coordinate the integration of detection, identification, tracking, electronic warfare, non-kinetic, and kinetic defeat capabilities.
• Support operational deconfliction with friendly aviation, communications, Link 16, radar, and air-defense systems.
• Coordinate with the Theater Joint Force Maritime Component Commander to integrate counter-unmanned surface and undersea system capabilities.
• Support the protection of maritime choke points, littoral combat groups, advanced naval bases, logistics nodes, and expeditionary operating locations.
• Harmonize C-UxS measures across garrison, tactical, maritime, and expeditionary environments.
• Coordinate with Marine Corps installation commanders to ensure continuity between installation protection and deployed-force operations.
• Coordinate with Marine Corps capability-development organizations to identify, prioritize, and advocate for C-UxS equipment, ammunition, personnel, training, and sustainment requirements.
• Consolidate capability gaps reported by deploying MEUs, MAGTFs, and littoral combat formations.
• Support rapid capability development, procurement, fielding, and operational assessment of C-UxS solutions.
• Maintain accountability and operational visibility of Marine Corps C-UxS capabilities fielded throughout the theater.
• Liaise with the Department of Defense Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office to align Service-component fielding with joint standards, common C2 architectures, and shared threat assessments.
• Author and maintain policy governing the defensive deployment and employment of C-UxS capabilities across regional bases, rotational forces, and littoral formations.
• Develop and maintain joint C-UxS reporting policy.
• Coordinate with Staff Judge Advocate and Combatant Command operational law teams on C-UxS rules of engagement and rules for the use of force.
• Support the development and maintenance of supplemental measures addressing detection, tracking, non-kinetic jamming, cyber defeat, directed energy, and kinetic neutralization.
• Maintain operational awareness of Title 10, Title 32, and Title 50 authorities and associated legal constraints applicable to C-UxS activities in domestic, foreign, and territorial-water environments.
• Coordinate with legal, policy, intelligence, and force-protection stakeholders to ensure C-UxS plans remain operationally executable and legally supportable.
• Coordinate with the Theater Frequency Management Office and MARFOR G-6/G-39 to allocate and deconflict frequencies used by C-UxS electronic-warfare, radar, communications, and directed-energy systems.
• Assess and mitigate risks of interference or fratricide involving friendly communications, Link 16, aviation, navigation, and command-and-control systems.
• Incorporate electromagnetic-spectrum considerations into operational plans, exercises, deployment packages, and force-protection measures.
• Coordinate with U.S. Embassies, country teams, host-nation ministries of defense, and relevant interagency partners.
• Support bilateral coordination for airspace authorizations, spectrum access, defensive perimeters, and employment of C-UxS capabilities around Marine Corps installations and forward staging sites.

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

• Bachelor's degree in security studies, National Security, Public Policy or a related discipline
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Active Top Secret with SCI security clearance required
• 5+ years of operational-level staff experience at the MEF (Corps level HQ), MARFOR, Service-component, functional component, standing sub-unified, joint task force, or Combatant Command level.
• 1+ years experience applying the Marine Corps Planning Process and Joint Planning Process.
• 1+ years experience in one or more of the following domains: Air defense or air command and control, including 72XX specialties, anti-air artillery/missiles, including 08XX specialties, Aviation, including 73XX or 75XX specialties.
• 1+ years experience with direct operational experience with deployed counter-small UAS or C-UxS capabilities, such as MADIS, L-MADIS, FS-LIDS, DroneDefender, or comparable joint systems.
• 1+ years experience developing operational plans, contingency plans, policy documents, staff estimates, capability-gap assessments, and commander-level briefings.
• 1+ years experience coordinating across joint, interagency, multinational, and Service-component organizations.
• 1+ years experience with integrated air and missile defense, electromagnetic-spectrum operations, force protection, and multi-domain operations.
• 1+ years experience with analyzing operational risk and translate strategic guidance into executable plans and resource requirements.

• Master's degree in Security Studies, National Security, Public Policy or a related discipline
• Completion of the Joint Counter-sUAS Office Operational Planners Course.
• Completion of Air and Missile Defense courses or a Weapons and Tactics Instructor course.
• Experience supporting a Combatant Command, Joint Task Force, Service component, or Indo-Pacific operational headquarters.
• Experience with C-UxS systems spanning air, ground, surface, and undersea domains.
• Knowledge of Marine Corps force development, capability-based assessment, acquisition, fielding, and sustainment processes.
• Experience coordinating with host-nation defense organizations, U.S. country teams, embassies, or interagency partners.
• Familiarity with rules of engagement, rules for the use of force, operational law, and authorities governing electronic warfare, cyber effects, directed energy, and kinetic defeat.
• Experience integrating C-UxS capabilities into joint exercises, defended asset lists, theater campaign plans, and contingency plans.