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Joint Exercise Planner

Apogee Engineering

120,000.00 - $125,000.00 /Yr.

United States, Colorado, Colorado Springs

Jul 15, 2025

Joint Exercise Planner

Location

US-CO-Colorado Springs

ID

2025-1343

Category

Training

Position Type

Full-Time

Remote

Overview

Apogee is actively seeking a Joint Exercise Planner to join our SMDC team.

Program: This position will provide A&AS to support the USASMDC G37 Training, Readiness and Exercise Division (G37 TREX) mission. This position will support the Exercise Branch, responsible for planning, synchronizing, executing, and assessing space operations support to USSTRATCOM, USSPACECOM, and other COCOM major exercises, experiments, and war games.

This full-time role onsite at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO.

Responsibilities

Joint Exercises Support.

The Joint Exercise Team will coordinate directly with USSTRATCOM, GCCs, ASCCs, Corps, Division, 1st Space Brigade, Satellite Operations Brigade, and the 100th Ground-Based Mission Defense (GMD) to provide required space exercise support.

Provide expertise in planning STRATCOM GLOBAL LIGHTNING and GLOBAL THUNDER, DEFENDER series, the 1^st Space Brigade and 100^th GMD major training events, and additional Joint exercises using the Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC) process.
Execute the exercises outlined above. This includes controlling the planned storylines and injecting the developed MSEL. The contractor shall use the JMSEL tool to inject the planned events.
Use the Joint Lessons Learned Information System (JLLIS) tool to collect Lessons Learned/After Action Review (AAR) comments from events that occurred during the exercise.

Qualifications

Minimum Experience:

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen
Clearance: Must have and be able to maintain a TS with SCI eligibility.
Education: Bachelor's degree
Years of Experience: 10 years relevant experience in exercise planning.

Additional Experience:

Must possess strong analytical, technology, and organizational skills
Accuracy, timeliness, and attention to detail are required
Ability to work independently and meet communicated schedules and deadlines
Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Additional Experience: Exercise planning in the space domain preferred.

Additional Information
Location: Onsite at Peterson SFB
Travel: 25% to Germany, Hawaii, Korea and CONUS locations

Pay Range

USD $120,000.00 - USD $125,000.00 /Yr.