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The specialist connects experimentation venues, ranges, operational units, government stakeholders, and vendors; integrates autonomy into Joint exercises and wargames; and converts lessons learned into training, capability, and fielding actions. The ideal candidate is a highly organized planner who coordinates complex events and maintains disciplined follow-through from initial concept through after-action implementation.\nLMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.\nLeveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors, helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.\nThis position requires on-site support in the National Capital Region and an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance. The position requires periodic travel to supported commands, operational units, exercises, test events, and industry locations.\nResponsibilities\nPlan and coordinate autonomous-system experiments, demonstrations, test events, exercises, wargames, workshops, and operational assessments.\nTranslate operational problem statements into event objectives, scenarios, mission threads, measures, data requirements, participant roles, and execution plans.\nCoordinate venues, ranges, airspace, safety, security, communications, equipment, logistics, travel, access, and other event support requirements.\nSynchronize operational units, combatant commands, Military Services, program offices, test organizations, vendors, laboratories, and industry partners.\nDevelop integrated master schedules, event plans, execution checklists, risk registers, decision logs, action trackers, and readiness reviews.\nSupport capability selection, technical integration, rehearsal, staging, and troubleshooting before and during events.\nCoordinate collection of quantitative and qualitative data, operator observations, test results, and mission outcomes.\nFacilitate after-action reviews and develop lessons learned, findings, recommendations, and corrective-action plans.\nTranslate validated results into proposed changes to training, tactics, concepts, requirements, acquisition, fielding, and capability portfolios.\nMaintain continuity across experimentation cycles and keep open actions assigned, tracked, and closed.\nPrepare event briefs, read-ahead materials, status reports, executive summaries, and senior leader decision products.\nIdentify opportunities to integrate autonomous capabilities into existing Joint exercises, wargames, and training events.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in operations, program management, engineering, military studies, test and evaluation, logistics, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.\nFour or more years of experience in operational planning, experimentation, exercise planning, test and evaluation, capability integration, or a closely related field.\nActive TS/SCI clearance.\nExperience planning and executing complex Department of Defense exercises, demonstrations, tests, ranges, wargames, or operational events.\nAbility to coordinate schedules, participants, equipment, access, safety, logistics, communications, and data collection across multiple organizations.\nWorking knowledge of autonomous systems, uncrewed systems, emerging technology, or technical capability development.\nExperience developing event plans, objectives, measures, risk assessments, after-action reports, and action trackers.\nStrong facilitation, organization, written communication, briefing, and stakeholder management skills.\nAbility to operate effectively during high-tempo field events and resolve issues without losing accountability.\nProficiency with Microsoft 365 and work management or event planning tools.\nDesired Qualifications:\nExperience supporting a Joint or Service J7, a combatant command, a test organization, or a Special Operations Forces unit.\nExperience integrating autonomous systems into live exercises, operational assessments, or wargames.\nKnowledge of range operations, airspace coordination, flight safety, spectrum, test instrumentation, or operational data collection.\nProject Management Professional, test and evaluation, Agile, systems engineering, or Federal Aviation Administration Part 107 certification.\nThe target salary range for this position is $148,301 - $255,653.\nThe salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation. 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