Military Information Support Operations (MISO) Integrator DOD TS/SCI

Peraton and its Operational Planning, Implementation and Assessment Services (OPIAS) Team is seeking an experienced Military Information Support Operations (MISO) (formerly Psychological Operations (PSYOP)) Integrator to integrate MISO functions and tasks into all facets of Combatant Command (CCMD) level planning, and to ensure the command group and staff consider MISO/PSYOP in the decision-making process. 

This is an on-site position at MacDill, AFB, Tampa, FL

What You’ll Do:

• Integrate MISO/PSYOP into all contingency plans and operations plans and ensure that MISO/PSYOP capabilities are considered in the deliberate and crisis action planning processes.
• Provide expert mission analysis, analytic problem solving, and assessment skills
• Creatively use information systems and information related capabilities (IRC)
• Integrate with interagency and intelligence community (IC)
• Develop innovative concepts to counter adversarial use of information in the Cognitive domain, Cyber domain and electromagnetic spectrum; and consider significant or key cultural aspects that affect operational and tactical planning, security, and risk assessments.
• Review, analyze, and operationalize tactical and operational-level IO-related directives in support of maneuver elements.  
• Apply your technical skills to operational and tactical planning/execution, identifying and tracking measures of performance through attainment of measures of effectiveness, and providing advice concerning the application of MISO/PSYOP during the development of operational concepts.

What You Bring:

We’re looking for a talented and motivated MISO/PSYOP Integrator who thrives in high-stakes environments. To succeed in this role, you’ll need:

• Have a working knowledge of information operations (IO), military deception (MILDEC), operations security (OPSEC), electronic warfare (EW), and cyberspace operations missions, tasks, and overall warfighting functions that support operations, understand how to integrate Army capabilities, and be capable of synchronizing activities of mutual concern.  
• Familiarity with other core, supporting, and related IO competencies to assist COCOM planners
• Expert level in oral, visual, & written communications and briefing techniques
• Effectively advise, negotiate and persuade various managers, military officials, and senior leaders
• Effective at gaining acceptance of recommended concepts, ideas, guidance, policies and regulations.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of planning experience with BS/BA.
  • May consider an additional four years of relevant experience in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree.
• MISO/PSYOP (37A/37F) career field (or other related military service equivalents).
• Knowledge in joint operational planning process, military decision-making process, and military campaign plan planning, targeting processes and expertise in developing and accessing tactical and operational level MISO/PSYOP plans and orders.
• Have a minimum of 2 years of experience with MISO Integrating at the service or joint level in support of operations at Combatant Commands or Joint Task Forces.
• Knowledge of service departments (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force) functions and their relationships to COCOM to coordinate MISO/PSYOP actions in appropriate channels, e.g., Army, Navy, Air Force, or Joint with experience with joint and/or combined military operations and interagency coordination with knowledge of DoD, joint, and Army service doctrine, regulations, and policies.
• Knowledge of DoD, Joint, and Army service doctrine, regulations, and policies and capable of recommending changes to policy, force structure and design, and command relationships.
• Knowledge of messaging dissemination means and conduits to reach identified target audiences.
• Experience with integrating, coordinating, and synchronizing adjacent and supporting operations, as well as developing support for related capabilities and their activities. Be familiar with, certified in, or have applicable operational/field time experience in:
  • Military Deception (MILDEC)
  • OPSEC
  • EW
  • Special Technical Operations (STO)
  • Cyberspace operations
  • Coordinating intelligence requirements
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current U.S. Passport with the ability to travel internationally.
• Requires an DoD active top secret/sensitive compartmented information security clearance, based on current security background investigation – must have TS with SCI Eligibility 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Recent joint or service level experience
• Joint cyber operations planners course
• Joint information operations planner course
• Defense OPSEC planner course
• Special warfare advanced targeting and analysis course
• Special operations MILDEC planners course
• Irregular warfare planners course
• Expertise in planning, integrating, and coordinating with interagency and intelligence community entities.
• Adept at developing and utilizing information products that leverage current and emerging technologies to inform planning, improve coordination, and enable timely decisions.
• Must demonstrate creative and critical thinking.
• Must be capable of quickly learning new skills.
• Must be flexible and adaptable.

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