Higher Command (HICOM) Support Team (HST) Manager 1

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems sector (NGDS) is seeking a Higher Command (HICOM) Support Team (HST) Manager 1 to join our growing team of diverse professionals at Fort Indiantown Gap in Pennsylvania.  The selected candidate will provide consulting expertise to military or defense clients at the Fort Indiantown Gap Mission Training Complex (MTC-FTIG).

This position is contingent upon contract award, budget, and customer approval.

Responsibilities:

• Directs the HICOM Support Team (HST) / Division HICOM Support Team (D-HST) of former Brigade, Division, or Corps staff, who were primary within at least one Warfighting Function (WFF)

• Coordinates HSTs and D-HSTs to replicate the HICOM, typically as a Division, Corps, or Joint Force Headquarters. Each HST/D-HST will teach, coach, mentor and train Division and Brigade Commanders and Staff counterparts across all WFF, including Command, Control, and Communications Technology, the philosophy of Mission Command and the art and science of Command and Control (C2).

• Serves as either the Deputy Commander or Commander of the Joint Force, Corps, or Division higher command

• Staff Brigade HSTs and Division HSTs to enable Mission Command Training Support Program (MCTSP) to support up to four large-scale multi-echelon exercises simultaneously

• Staff D-HSTs at a level that enables training across the breadth and depth of a Division Headquarters.

• Responsible for deliverables and products including the publication of Division and above operation orders.

• HST/D-HST

  • Coaches, mentors, and trains Army Battalion, Brigade, and Division staff in the art and science of Mission Command

  • Plans, coordinates, prepares and conducts battle staff exercises (STAFFEX), Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP) workshops, command post exercises (CPXs), staff / Tactical Command Post proficiency training, and other supporting events at the battalion, brigade, and division level

  • Develops HST support packages and supporting scenarios relevant to the operating environment of the training unit, focusing on the art and science of mission command. 

  • Provides over-the-shoulder and observer controller/trainer support to the training unit, battalion through division level, throughout the exercise life cycle (ELC) from the initial planning conference through the final After-Action Review (AAR)

  • As required, serves as HICOM or exercise-control (EXCON) officer in charge (OIC), employing relevant scripted and dynamic master scenario event list injects in a fluid tactical environment and in accordance with unit training objectives

  • Is fully conversant in the Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP) and how to use the MDMP to develop appropriate operations orders/fragmentary orders

  • Coaches the unit Executive Officer (XO) / Chief of Staff in directing and synchronizing the staff during planning and execution

  • Conversant in the Rapid Decision-Making and Synchronization Process (RDSP)

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree with a minimum of 20 years of active duty U.S. Army experience

• Minimum of 2 years of experience with exercise planning using the JELC process

• Active US Department of Defense (DoD) Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance

• Experience successfully commanding at the Brigade Level

• Experienced in large-scale live and constructive exercises

• Doctrinal expert within at least one Warfighter Function (WFF)

• Familiar with the employment and operation of Army Mission Command Information Systems (MCIS) such as the Command Post C