Chief Future Capabilities

Summary

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Duties

The United States Space Force (USSF) at Schriever SFB, Colorado Springs, CO is searching for a Chief, Future Capabilities, Delta 11 33RD RGS (NH-2210-03, GS-12/13 Equivalent). Description: Mission: 33 RGS operates and maintains the cyber component of the National Space Test and Training Complex providing cyber environments for test and training missions. Additionally, the unit instills an adversary-focused warfighting culture by knowing, teaching, and replicating modern, emerging, and integrated cyber threats via adversary threat academics and virtual/live replication of adversary cyber threats. Ideal Candidate: Strong background in Cyberspace operations, policies, and governance; understanding and familiarity with US Government, USCYBERCOM, and Department of the Air Force Cyber policies, guidance, and doctrine, understanding and familiarity with the Joint Planning Process Key Skills and Abilities: 1. Ability to develop, integrate, and operationalize strategic guidance, campaign plans, and enterprise objectives aligned to HHQ and national-level strategies, including establishment of measurable goals, milestones, and assessment frameworks. 2. Knowledge of policy formulation processes and governance structures, with the ability to draft, coordinate, adjudicate, and publish cyber warfare policy and authoritative guidance consistent with HHQ directives, mission partner agreements, and compliance requirements. 3. Skill in analyzing complex guidance (e.g., national security, DoD/DAF/USSF, and COCOM strategies), distilling implications, assessing risk, and producing senior-leader decision support products (briefings, executive summaries, courses of action). 4. Ability to represent the Delta with credibility across HHQ, interagency, joint, and mission partner forums; build consensus; negotiate outcomes; and influence strategy/policy decisions across organizational boundaries. Skill in designing and applying performance measures (KPIs, MOEs/MOPs), building assessment plans, and using data-driven approaches to monitor progress, identify gaps, and recommend corrective actions to achieve strategic ends. 5. Ability to communicate complex strategic and technical concepts clearly through executive-level writing and briefings, including preparation of strategy documents, policy memoranda, read-aheads, and staff packages for senior leader approval. Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: 1. Knowledge of technology development and transition lifecycle, including market research, requirements analysis, risk assessment, formal Test & Evaluation (T&E) planning and execution, and operational handover procedures. 2. Advanced skills in integration and engineering and designing, prototyping, and deploying new and emerging technologies (e.g., cloud-native platforms, AI/ML analytics, zero-trust architecture, software-defined networking) into a complex, operational environment. 3. Advanced skill in performing in-depth systems analysis, reverse engineering, and vulnerability research on new hardware, software, and systems to develop methods for modeling them as functional components within the range. 4. Ability to independently lead and manage complex technical development projects from concept to completion, authoring detailed technical reports, architecture diagrams, and test findings with data-driven recommendations for adoption. 5. Exceptional analytical and technical documentation skills to create comprehensive system designs, formal test plans, and robust operational manuals that enable the seamless transition of new capabilities to the operations team.

Qualifications

The 2210 series has an individual occupational requirement that must be met and can be viewed here. There is no Group Coverage Qualification Standard for this series.

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