Virtual Neptune Hawk Operations Planner

Join our Deloitte AI & Engineering team to transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients’ success. You’ll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work you’ll do 

The VNH Operations Planner serves as a specialized Project Officer supporting the planning, preparation, execution, and evaluation of Virtual Neptune Hawk events within a simulator setting. Reporting to the NH Team Lead and collaborating with the broader NH Team at JBPH-H, this position focuses on operational planning for both simulated and live NEPTUNE HAWK exercises, as well as other directed events. The planner ensures realism and relevance in simulation scenarios, contributes to after-action reviews, and supports mission success through technical and operational expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• VNH Event Planning and Execution
• Support the Active Duty NH OCE Lead planners and NH Team Lead throughout the full VNH Joint Exercise Lifecycle.
• Coordinate the development, integration, and execution of realistic scenarios in simulation environments, including intelligence, logistics, and AOC-like functions.
• Design threat presentations, create simulated orders of battle, and develop scenario injects to engage participants.
• Support after-action review processes to identify improvement areas in simulated operations.
• Technical and Operational Expertise
• Work with high-fidelity combat simulator design and functionality.
• Integrate live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) elements into exercise planning.
• Translate real-world operational concepts into simulation environments, focusing on tactical aircraft and Air Battle Management.
• Security and Compliance
• Maintain strict security protocols, handle classified material accountability, and adhere to SAP/STO and ACCM eligibility requirements.
• Keep security clearances up-to-date and comply with polygraph and indoctrination agreements as required.
• Communication and Liaison
• Prepare and deliver briefings for Senior Officers and external agencies on simulation capabilities, ongoing operations, planning issues, and exercises.
• Coordinate with national-level agencies, DoD, Combatant Commands, and intelligence agencies for exercise integration.
• Program Support and Evaluation
• Provide system-specific training to STO personnel.
• Evaluate SAP capabilities for integration and realism.
• Serve as focal point for STO program activities and documentation.
• Participate in live-fly NEPTUNE HAWK events when duties permit.

The team 

Our Industry Solutions clients seek verticalized solutions that transform how they sell products, deliver services, generate growth, and fulfill mission-critical operations. The Industry Solutions offering delivers integrated business expertise with repeatable scaled technology solutions that are specifically engineered for each sector’s IndustryAdvantageTM.

 Qualifications 

Required:

• 5+ years of rated experience in fighter/bomber or ISR aircraft, or Air Battle Management
• Experience in simulator environments
• Experience with scenario generation, scripting, database manipulation, and LVC integration
• Bachelor’s degree required 
• Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility security clearance required 
• SAP/STO and ACCM eligibility
• Ability to pass CI-scope polygraph examinations
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future 
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