Joint Exercise Space Planner

Job Description: Provide subject matter expertise in Joint space operations, space capabilities, threat systems, and space-enabled effects relevant to tactical training audiences. Lead and mentor Joint planning teams to integrate space domain considerations into exercise design, scenario development, and training objectives. Coordinate with USSPACECOM and SPACE-PAC to ensure exercise space injects, effects, and threat portrayals align with current doctrine, operational realities, and theater priorities. Support live-force tactical training by integrating training aids and enablers, including LVC systems, emitters, tactical space range capabilities, and synthetic space effects. Advise planners on how space capabilities influence C2, targeting, ISR, communications, navigation, missile warning, and threat characterization during Joint operations. Role-play friendly or threat space components during exercise execution and adjust synthetic space injects to meet training objectives. Ensure space domain integration is synchronized with air, maritime, land, cyber, and information operations during Joint exercises. Maintain awareness of emerging space capabilities, threat developments, and Joint space doctrine to ensure PACOM exercises remain aligned with DoD-wide best practices.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s and ten (10)+ years of related experience; additional four (4) years of experience considered in lieu of degree. Demonstrated expertise in space operations, Joint operational planning, or multi-domain training. Experience integrating space capabilities and effects into Joint or Service-level exercises. Thorough knowledge of space system capabilities, limitations, threat systems, and operational impacts on tactical forces. Experience on a Combatant Command, Service component, or Joint Staff with responsibilities in space operations, targeting, or multi-domain integration. Demonstrated ability to translate training objectives into space-enabled exercise designs.