Junior Experimentation Analyst

Join our team at Core One! Our mission is to be at the forefront of devising analytical, operational and technical solutions to our Nation's most complex national security challenges. In order to achieve our mission, Core One values people first! We are committed to recruiting, nurturing, and retaining top talent! We offer a competitive total compensation package that sets us apart from our competition. Core One is a team-oriented, dynamic, and growing company that values exceptional performance!

Core One is seeking a Junior Experimentation Analyst to support the program. This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead and support experimentation activities—including modeling, simulations, tabletop exercises, wargames, red teaming, prototyping, and demonstrations—to assess warfighter capabilities, solution designs, and performance across the DOTmLPF-P spectrum.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute EXFOR and SOF experimentation events from concept through post-execution review, including scenario development, scripting, training, facilitation, and senior leader seminar or workshop support.
• Conduct analytical assessments using commercial and government toolsets to evaluate technology feasibility, reliability, resiliency, and applicability to SOF missions.
• Provide subject matter expertise on emerging and advanced technologies; maintain relationships with SOF AT&L, Service and Joint S&T organizations, DARPA, and other DoD partners.
• Produce and deliver key products—reports, briefs, information papers, moderator guides, staff materials, and event documentation—capturing findings, lessons learned, and recommendations for future planning and experimentation.
• Develop POA&Ms, milestone schedules, and DOTmLPF-P assessments to identify gaps, evaluate alternatives, and inform strategic guidance such as SOF Operating Guidance, FPG, and SPG.
• Support and participate in planning conferences, working groups, forums, and technology engagements to coordinate stakeholders, refine scenarios, and advance experimentation objectives.
• Maintain mission-continuity resources, including centralized electronic reference materials and key points of contact accessible to all stakeholders.
• Prepare reports and presentations using Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Access.
• Travel up to 25% monthly in support of events, coordination, and stakeholder engagements.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• At least 3 years of strategic or operational-level experience (military, contractor, or civilian) working with DoD Services or Combatant Commands in support of strategic engagement activities such as wargames, experimentation, Warfighter Talks, and senior-level Service conferences or events.
• 3+ years of experience in planning, concept development, analysis of alternatives, scenario development and execution, modeling and simulation, experimentation, design theory, and/or analytical methods used to assess networked environments and atypical simulation outcomes.
• At least 3 years of cumulative experience within USSOCOM organizations in a military, government civilian, or contractor capacity.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience planning large-scale events (30+ participants) for senior leadership, including researching and recommending venues, organizing and executing site surveys, and briefing site survey findings to government stakeholders.
• 3 years of experience conducting defense-focused research on emerging technologies, or integrating intelligence and operational information to build scenarios, studies, and analyses.
• 3 years of experience producing operational products that capture exercise results and lessons learned to inform future exercise planning and requirements development.
• At least 3 years of experience preparing and delivering written and verbal products to general/flag-level command staff.
• 5 years of experience using Microsoft Office applications, including SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, and related tools.

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