Job description
Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.
We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.
Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.
Who we are supporting
Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO's leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.
The program
Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)
DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and co-ordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate. CAPDEV is responsible to:
Identify and prioritize Alliance capability shortfalls from short to long term, along a continuum of holistic capability development.
Lead the determination of required capabilities and prioritization of shortfalls to inform the delivery of materiel and non-materiel solutions across the Doctrine, Organisation, Training, Material, and Leadership, Personnel, Facilities and Interoperability (DOTMLPFI) lines of effort to enable a holistic approach to capability development, ensuring improved interoperability, deployability and sustainability of Alliance Forces.
Role Background
The exploitation of cyberspace as a domain of operations presents an increasingly growing challenge for the Alliance. Gaining the ability to plan, assess and conduct military operations in cyberspace requires therefore the development of new concepts and capabilities, notably in the area of cyberspace resilience, mission assurance, situational awareness, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) or C3 (Consultation, Command & Control), to name a few.
Cyberspace concepts need to be validated and tested to inform warfare and capability development through different methods/mechanisms such as comparative analysis, demonstration, wargaming and experimentation. Setting up and conducting those validation activities demand multidisciplinary teams made from several NATO entities, industry and academia. They involve the technical, operational and in some cases the legal and policy communities of interest. They require robust validation methodologies ranging from hypothesis development, planning and coordination (technical set up, stakeholders, venues, etc.), assessment and reporting, to name a few.
- Conduct a critical analysis and review of existing and under-development cyberspace concepts.
- Select the appropriate methods/mechanisms to validate cyberspace concept. This includes comparative analysis, demonstration, wargaming and experimentation.
- Plan, coordinate and execute the validation campaign, which shall be based on a thorough/scientific methodology, which includes:
o Development of hypothesis, metrics and success criteria;
o Drafting of final report, with findings, analysis and recommendations.
- Engage with, and coordinate, relevant Communities of Interest (NATO organizations, nations, Cyber Range, industry, and academia) for concept validation purposes (validation campaign development and design, workshops, etc.).
- Prepare relevant briefings and other communication materials (flyers, posters, etc.), notably for the concept validation campaign, and deliver presentations.
- Support and contribute to other warfare development activities related to the concept area (feasibility studies, concept identification, technology analysis, etc.).
- Integrate and synergically work along the cyberspace branch concept development Community of Interest (CoI), contributing to the development of methodologies and processes and supporting the development of synergies among all concept development activities.
- Support the Branch Head/Technical Director/Section Heads with concept validation related inputs to other branch warfare development activities, including but not limited to concept to capability translation, capability analysis and systems engineering, etc.
- Master's degree or similar national academic qualification in systems engineer,
- Post-grade education in CIS security and cyber defence disciplines, as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Security Expert or ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
- computer science, network security, cyber-security or any related field. Can be substituted with Bachelor Degree and 5 years of experience in relevant field.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience as lead/key contributor in the validation of operational, technical or organizational concepts, preferably in a military context, using robust methodologies such as the NATO Concept Development & Experimentation Handbook or the Code of Best Practices for Experimentation, or similar.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience as lead/key contributor in the implementation of a number of different methods/mechanisms to validate concepts (e.g. comparative analysis, demonstration, wargaming and experimentation), preferably in a military context and possibly on cyberspace-related topics.
- (Norfolk, VA, USA)
- Onsite
- Mond-Friday
- Some travel to other NATO sites may be required
- June 2023 – Dec 2027
- Valid National or NATO personal security clearance
- Professional English
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