Description
Contract Constructive Simulations Engineer based in Poland
16 Nov 2015 until 15 May 2016 (or upon a date of contract award, whichever is the later) and up to 115 man-days
NATO SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED
Key responsibilities and tasks:
- Support CAX team through generating/modifying/configuring JCATS centric constructive simulations to participate in VJTF related exercises.
- Participate in the exercise planning process
- Support training operators in executing the simulation portion of exercise.
- Maintain constructive computer simulations during the exercise execution,
- Integrate database development into constructive simulations for training events
- Capture lessons identified/learned related to constructive simulation in the exercise process from planning through execution to after-action analysis
- Provide simulations expertise and participate in experiments and testing of new tools and upgrades in the M&S environment
- All other tasks associated with construction simulations operating and management
Essential Experience
- At least 5 years of experience in; conducting JCATS centric constructive simulation exercises, in a military environment.
- Specific experience with JCATS, VBS3 modelling and simulations systems
- Good knowledge of relationships and dependencies between database systems and Modelling & Simulation systems such as JCATS, VBS3
- Ability to effectively capture and communicate requirements of the constructive simulations creation process in support of M&S based exercise and training
- Ability to explain the requirements to non-technical personnel and to effectively cooperate with them in information gathering process
- Experience in developing technical documentation
- Knowledge and experience in modern operating system administration and architectures
- Working knowledge of standard network environment concepts and tools, such as SMTP, Web Servers and clients, TCP/IP, DNS
- Experience integrating constructive simulations into a Federation sending data to NATO FAS/C2 and EXCON tools
- Familiar with Information and knowledge management techniques
Education
Degree in Computer Science, CIS Engineering or similar, preferably with database-oriented profile and must have completed certified JCATS course in the last two years
Native English language speaker or individual presenting very good command of spoken and written English