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# IO Planner - Special Activities Planner (SAP) Specialist

- **Company:** Strategic Inc
- **Location:** Fort Meade, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Integration Architecture, SAP (Applications), SAP Logistics, Sap Production Planning, Cyber Warfare
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9075163/io-planner-special-activities-planner-sap-specialist

## About the Role

* Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree with 8+ years planning experience, or 12+ years total combined education and relevant experience (additional experience may substitute for degree requirements)
 * Training: Special Activities Planners Course completion (required)
 * Career field experience: Background in IO / MISO / PSYOP (e.g., 30/37A/37F)
 * SAP planning depth: Minimum 5 years SAP planning at service or joint level supporting CCMDs or JTFs, especially tied to cyber operations
 * Demonstrated knowledge integrating special capabilities and SAP operations into JOPP/MDMP, campaign planning, targeting, and IO plans/orders
 * Working knowledge of IO, MILDEC, OPSEC, EW, and cyberspace operations, and how to synchronize joint capabilities and activities
 * Experience coordinating and synchronizing adjacent/supporting operations with interagency and intelligence community entities, including intelligence requirement coordination
 * Familiarity with Service component functions (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force) and how they coordinate through CCMD channels, * Current polygraph
 * Recent joint or service-level IO planning experience
 * Current or recent SAP work supporting USCYBERCOM planning efforts
 * Experience integrating MISO/PSYOP into cyber plans and operations
 * Strong knowledge of command relationships and C2 procedures; ability to coordinate SAP actions through proper channels and policy
 * Experience coordinating with DoD program managers/coordinators and interagency partners (including ACCM-related coordination)
 * Executive-level briefing skills (oral, written, visual), with the ability to persuade and gain stakeholder alignment
 * Relevant advanced courses (examples): Joint Cyber Operations Planner, Joint IO Planner, Defense OPSEC Planner, SOF MILDEC Planner, Irregular Warfare, and related targeting/analysis courses

## Description

* Provide SAP core capability support and sensitive operational products across steady-state ops, contingencies, crisis action, disaster relief, and exercises
 * Integrate information-related capabilities and sensitive activities into OPORDs, annexes/appendices/tabs, and evaluation or assessment plans
 * Review, analyze, and advise leadership on impacts of national-level strategy, policy, and joint doctrine
 * Develop IO planning products (appendices, annexes, tabs, estimates) supporting capabilities such as EW, OIE support, MILDEC, cyberspace operations, OPSEC, and IJSTO
 * Research, analyze, assess, and help operationalize information-related tools and capabilities (including EW, MISO/PSYOP, MILDEC, CO, OPSEC, IJSTO)
 * Support planning, staffing, coordination, execution, and assessment of sensitive activities
 * Contribute to focused outreach, experiments, and scientific application integration where required.


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