Staff Officer (Experimentation & Wargaming Design)

Post Context

ACT contributes to preserving the peace, security and territorial integrity of Alliance member states by leading, at Strategic Command level, Warfare Development required to enhance NATO’s posture, military structures, forces, capabilities and doctrines.

DCOS MDFD Directorate consists of eight HQ SACT-based Branches that have responsibility for NATO Force Development activities.

ACOS MDFD manages, coordinates and quality assures the outputs within the MDFD directorate.

The Experimentation and Wargaming Branch is responsible for developing and managing ACT’s Experimentation activities.

The Staff Officer (Experimentation Design) is a contributor to the technical design and delivery of operational experimentation, enabling the seamless placement of experiments into Alliance concept and capability development programmes while identifying and acting upon opportunities for synergy with other NATO or national programmes in order to maximize returns on investments.

Principal Duties:

• Directly responsible for the design of experiments within the annual NATO CD&E Programme of Work, in order to deliver best effect to the development of new concepts and capabilities, in accordance with the NATO CD&E Policy.
• Directly responsible for the contr