Command and control job description
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Example command and control requirements on a job description
Command and control requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in command and control job postings.
Sample command and control requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in a Command and Control role.
- Knowledge of tactical operations and systems.
- Proficiency in command and control systems.
- Demonstrated experience in developing command and control strategies.
Sample required command and control soft skills
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize workload.
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing environments.
Command and control job description example 1
JRC Integrated Systems command and control job description
Office of the Undersecretary for Defense for Research and Engineering Mission Integration Division (OUSD(R&E)/AC/ENG/MI) mission engineering, analysis, and integration expertise to produce objective insights and analytic justification to inform future technology and capability investment decisions within the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Execution (PPBE) process and aid in the prioritization, alignment and validation of requirements within Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) to deliver modernized capabilities that enable an all domain joint force aligned with future Joint Warfighting Concepts. The team constructs, manages, and conducts discrete mission engineering and analysis study tasks to evaluate the efficacy of legacy architectures and new technologies and capabilities applied in new mission concepts of employment to meet evolving joint mission objectives.
Support efforts to improve and modernize NC3 technology and architecture to support mission and ensure technology dominances and nuclear deterrence.
Support the identification of new R&D efforts of non-traditional material solutions for NC3 Enterprise gaps and requirements that are unaddressed by any ongoing R&D efforts.
Participate in three to four NC3 working meetings per week
Provide weekly highlights to government officials
Assist with development of talking points / info papers to senior R&E leadership.
Collaborate with various stakeholders across the NC3 community such as USSTRATCOM, OUSD, and the NC3 Enterprise Center (NEC) to address capability gaps and requirements, synchronize R&D efforts from across OSD, and support development of NC3 "Next Generation (NextGen)" vision.
Develop NC3 modernization roadmaps
Support the NC3 Technology Development Plan (TDP) transitioning emerging technology into the NC3 architecture.
Qualifications:
Experience with Cloud-Enabled Networks for Command and Control
Experience in the Defense Acquisition, including requirements development, RFP development, and engagement with Industry
Experience developing system solutions to complex and challenging DoD problems
Experience in service-led R&D efforts, service laboratories or defense research centers
Experience leading the planning and execution of complex mission and systems analysis efforts.
Experience leading Systems Engineering (SE) tasks including:
Technology Analysis and Assessment, System Definition, Systems Analysis, Systems Architecture development and architecture products for Systems of Systems (SoS)
Experience in supporting technical, managerial or operational fields and have expert credentials or be recognized as an authority and have the mature judgement required to advise senior government personnel.
Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills across various stakeholders at varying levels of leadership/seniority
Experience communicating, interfacing, and interacting with Joint Staff, Services, and warfighters to coordinate engineering and analysis needs and analytic results.
Required
+ Bachelor's Degree.
+ Minimum of 15 years experience.
+ Clearance: TS/SCI
Support efforts to improve and modernize NC3 technology and architecture to support mission and ensure technology dominances and nuclear deterrence.
Support the identification of new R&D efforts of non-traditional material solutions for NC3 Enterprise gaps and requirements that are unaddressed by any ongoing R&D efforts.
Participate in three to four NC3 working meetings per week
Provide weekly highlights to government officials
Assist with development of talking points / info papers to senior R&E leadership.
Collaborate with various stakeholders across the NC3 community such as USSTRATCOM, OUSD, and the NC3 Enterprise Center (NEC) to address capability gaps and requirements, synchronize R&D efforts from across OSD, and support development of NC3 "Next Generation (NextGen)" vision.
Develop NC3 modernization roadmaps
Support the NC3 Technology Development Plan (TDP) transitioning emerging technology into the NC3 architecture.
Qualifications:
Experience with Cloud-Enabled Networks for Command and Control
Experience in the Defense Acquisition, including requirements development, RFP development, and engagement with Industry
Experience developing system solutions to complex and challenging DoD problems
Experience in service-led R&D efforts, service laboratories or defense research centers
Experience leading the planning and execution of complex mission and systems analysis efforts.
Experience leading Systems Engineering (SE) tasks including:
Technology Analysis and Assessment, System Definition, Systems Analysis, Systems Architecture development and architecture products for Systems of Systems (SoS)
Experience in supporting technical, managerial or operational fields and have expert credentials or be recognized as an authority and have the mature judgement required to advise senior government personnel.
Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills across various stakeholders at varying levels of leadership/seniority
Experience communicating, interfacing, and interacting with Joint Staff, Services, and warfighters to coordinate engineering and analysis needs and analytic results.
Required
+ Bachelor's Degree.
+ Minimum of 15 years experience.
+ Clearance: TS/SCI
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Command and control job description example 2
Lockheed Martin command and control job description
COVID\-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities\. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID\-19 variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security\.
To uphold safety for all employees, we will continue to request vaccination status for all Lockheed Martin employees including new hires\. All current and newly hired employees are required to follow onsite safety measures based upon the COVID\-19 Community Level at the specific work location\.
**Description:** At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder\. Our amazing people are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every day we use our unique skills and experiences to create, design and build solutions to some of the worlds' hardest engineering problems\. Our culture encourages employees to dream big, perform with excellence and create incredible products\. We provide the resources, inspiration and focus and if you have the passion and courage to dream big, we want to build a better tomorrow with you\.
Are you looking to develop your career as a Systems and/or an Integration and Verification/Test Engineer?
Do you want to be part of a dynamic, fast\-moving, high performance team that's creating a best\-in\-class team culture, all while quickly adapting to ever\-changing customer requirements?
As the Command and Control \(C2\) Capability Associate Chief Engineer \(ACE\) on the NextGen OPIR Ground Program you will work directly for the Chief Engineer and Chief Architect to coordinate technical requirements across product teams to obtain maximum synergy for the program leveraging the latest design principles including service\-oriented architecture, DevSecOps\. CI/CD pipeline development, automated test and cloud design\. In particular, you will:
• Have a solid understanding of Telemetry, Tracking and Commanding \(TTC\) and Mission Management \(MM\)
• Ensure the C2 product and MVPs are met and fully functional
• Be able to support the software aspects of the TTC/MM system
• Actively support the C2 Product Team and other program teams to accomplish the above
• Represent the Chief's office regarding the C2 system
• Provide support necessary to ensure teams are successfully focused on the correct tasks at the correct times to meet program milestones
• Support proposal and capture efforts as required
• Mentor junior engineers
• Other duties as assigned
The ideal candidate will have strong technical acumen to include cost and schedule experience while executing to technical baselines\. He/she will have Ground Systems experience to include TTC, MM experience at all levels of the system and experience in integration and testing of C2 satellite systems\. This person will be willing to jump in and assist the team with execution success\. A TS/SCI clearance or eligibility for a TS/SCI clearance is needed\.
**Basic Qualifications:**
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Experience working in a team environment
• Excellent presentation and written communication skills
• Familiarity with C2 satellite systems
• Experience with software development
• Experience with integrated testing
• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI \(not required before starting\)
• Experience/familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Agile methodologies
**Desired Skills:**
• Prior C2 Product Manager experience would be a plus
• Self\-driven, ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Demonstrated leadership experience
• Experience in generating design documents that adhere to technical standards
• Familiarity with TTC, MM, OAS, SOH, ground control systems, working with simulators
• Automated unit testing experience
• Experience with CI/CD tools, or working in a DevOps environment
• Experience with satellite ground systems
• OPIR program experience/exposure
• Scripting skills
• Ability to generate code for and execute automated testing
• Detail oriented
**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:**
job\.Qualifications
**Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer\. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status\.**
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours\. Our customers tackle the hardest missions\. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision\. They're dangerous\. Critical\. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives\. Those are the missions we care about\.
As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges\. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U\.S\., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories\.
**EXPERIENCE LEVEL:**
Experienced Professional
To uphold safety for all employees, we will continue to request vaccination status for all Lockheed Martin employees including new hires\. All current and newly hired employees are required to follow onsite safety measures based upon the COVID\-19 Community Level at the specific work location\.
**Description:** At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder\. Our amazing people are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every day we use our unique skills and experiences to create, design and build solutions to some of the worlds' hardest engineering problems\. Our culture encourages employees to dream big, perform with excellence and create incredible products\. We provide the resources, inspiration and focus and if you have the passion and courage to dream big, we want to build a better tomorrow with you\.
Are you looking to develop your career as a Systems and/or an Integration and Verification/Test Engineer?
Do you want to be part of a dynamic, fast\-moving, high performance team that's creating a best\-in\-class team culture, all while quickly adapting to ever\-changing customer requirements?
As the Command and Control \(C2\) Capability Associate Chief Engineer \(ACE\) on the NextGen OPIR Ground Program you will work directly for the Chief Engineer and Chief Architect to coordinate technical requirements across product teams to obtain maximum synergy for the program leveraging the latest design principles including service\-oriented architecture, DevSecOps\. CI/CD pipeline development, automated test and cloud design\. In particular, you will:
• Have a solid understanding of Telemetry, Tracking and Commanding \(TTC\) and Mission Management \(MM\)
• Ensure the C2 product and MVPs are met and fully functional
• Be able to support the software aspects of the TTC/MM system
• Actively support the C2 Product Team and other program teams to accomplish the above
• Represent the Chief's office regarding the C2 system
• Provide support necessary to ensure teams are successfully focused on the correct tasks at the correct times to meet program milestones
• Support proposal and capture efforts as required
• Mentor junior engineers
• Other duties as assigned
The ideal candidate will have strong technical acumen to include cost and schedule experience while executing to technical baselines\. He/she will have Ground Systems experience to include TTC, MM experience at all levels of the system and experience in integration and testing of C2 satellite systems\. This person will be willing to jump in and assist the team with execution success\. A TS/SCI clearance or eligibility for a TS/SCI clearance is needed\.
**Basic Qualifications:**
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Experience working in a team environment
• Excellent presentation and written communication skills
• Familiarity with C2 satellite systems
• Experience with software development
• Experience with integrated testing
• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI \(not required before starting\)
• Experience/familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Agile methodologies
**Desired Skills:**
• Prior C2 Product Manager experience would be a plus
• Self\-driven, ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Demonstrated leadership experience
• Experience in generating design documents that adhere to technical standards
• Familiarity with TTC, MM, OAS, SOH, ground control systems, working with simulators
• Automated unit testing experience
• Experience with CI/CD tools, or working in a DevOps environment
• Experience with satellite ground systems
• OPIR program experience/exposure
• Scripting skills
• Ability to generate code for and execute automated testing
• Detail oriented
**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:**
job\.Qualifications
**Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer\. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status\.**
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours\. Our customers tackle the hardest missions\. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision\. They're dangerous\. Critical\. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives\. Those are the missions we care about\.
As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges\. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U\.S\., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories\.
**EXPERIENCE LEVEL:**
Experienced Professional
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Updated March 14, 2024
Updated March 14, 2024