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# Mission Operations and Weapons and Tactics -SME | Top Secret cle

- **Company:** AMERICAN SYSTEMS
- **Location:** Arlington, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Collaborative Software, Information Systems, Data Sharing, SAP (Applications), System Availability, Integration Frameworks
- **Published:** November 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9292149/mission-operations-and-weapons-and-tactics-sme-top-secret-cle

## About the Role

The ideal candidate is a trusted operational advisor who brings sound judgment, a mission-first mindset, and the ability to bridge operational users with technical teams. You are comfortable working across complex, classified environments and communicating mission impacts, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders., * Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and ability to obtain and maintain and SAP access.

 * Bachelor's degree in operations, aviation, engineering, defense studies, information systems, military science, or a related field. Relevant operational experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
 * 8 to 10 years of related experience in military or intelligence operations, mission operations, weapons and tactics, operational test, mission planning, command and control, or a comparable defense environment.
 * Demonstrated expertise translating operational needs and user workflows into clear requirements, mission scenarios, acceptance criteria, readiness criteria, and integration priorities.
 * Experience advising Government and technical stakeholders on the mission impacts of data availability, application onboarding, user access, releasability, authorization decisions, classification, and cross-domain constraints.
 * Experience leading or influencing requirements discussions, integration design reviews, operational readiness reviews, mission-validation events, and post-deployment reviews.
 * Working knowledge of classified operations, information domains, partner data-sharing constraints, access-control policies, and operational risk.
 * Experience developing operational artifacts, including mission scenarios, test plans, validation criteria, readiness-review inputs, runbooks, handoff materials, and risk assessments.
 * Experience with mission-planning, command-and-control, operational-reporting, briefing, and secure-collaboration tools.
 * Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief senior Government, mission, technical, and partner stakeholders.

## Description

As a Mission Operations and Weapons and Tactics SME at AMERICAN SYSTEMS, you will:

 * Translate mission needs, weapons and tactics considerations, user workflows, partner requirements, and desired outcomes into intake records, need statements, and integration requirements.
 * Define operational context, including mission owners, data owners, system and platform owners, requesting teams, partners, users, urgency, and required timelines.
 * Assess mission dependencies across applications, data products, use cases, decision timelines, operational workflows, and mission impacts.
 * Advise on operational priority, data value, releasability, user-access needs, workflow constraints, training needs, and mission acceptance criteria.
 * Participate in design, compliance, and readiness reviews to ensure classification, information-domain, partner-access, authorization, ABAC, and cross-domain decisions support mission execution.
 * Coordinate with Government stakeholders, internal teams, and partner organizations to validate requirements, resolve operational issues, and remove integration barriers.
 * Develop operational artifacts, including inputs to interface documentation, mission scenarios, test plans, validation criteria, readiness reviews, runbooks, and handoff materials.
 * Validate integrated capabilities from a mission operations perspective, including data usability, application behavior, access decisions, workflow performance, resilience, and readiness.
 * Support production transitions through cutover planning, post-deployment reviews, incident-impact assessments, lessons learned, user feedback, and improvement-backlog prioritization.
 * Provide expert guidance on mission operations, weapons and tactics, partner coordination, training needs, operational risk, and mission integration throughout the capability lifecycle.
 * Brief senior Government, mission, technical, and partner stakeholders on operational value, mission impacts, risks, dependencies, and recommended courses of action.