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Program Analyst (CONOPS-FLEX)

United States Fleet Forces Command

Department of the Navy

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$108,019 - $140,426

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GS-12 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $74,441 - $96,770

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves analyzing threats and gaps in naval information warfare to help develop strategies, doctrines, and solutions that improve the fleet's readiness and capabilities.

You'll work on studies, experiments, and coordination with military teams to ensure tactics align with broader goals.

It's a great fit for someone with experience in defense analysis, military planning, or threat assessment who enjoys problem-solving in a high-stakes environment.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-12 level or equivalent, including conducting analyses of emerging threats and their impact on doctrines
  • Skill in assessing and identifying doctrinal and capability gaps in information warfare
  • Ability to evaluate innovative materiel and non-materiel solutions for warfighter needs
  • Experience aligning concepts of operations (CONOPS) and doctrinal publications with strategic documents
  • Proficiency in developing and supporting experimentation, exercises, and studies to validate solutions
  • Knowledge of coordinating with joint, service, and fleet organizations for doctrine review and updates

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Program Analyst (CONOPS-FLEX) in the Naval Information Warfighting Development Center of NAVINFOWARDEVCEN NORFOLK.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: -Experience independently conducting analyses and executing studies of new or emerging threats to determine their impact on doctrinal publications and prioritization of emerging capabilities.

-Experience assessing and identifying doctrinal and capability gaps, and evaluate how innovative materiel and non-materiel solutions can be used to meet Fleet warfighter needs.

-Leverage in-depth knowledge of information warfare subject matter experts to develop and document high tactical to low operational solutions to address emerging threats or capability shortfalls.

-Experience aligning fleet concepts of operations (CONOPS) and doctrinal publications with strategic documents and concepts.

-Experience developing and supporting experimentation and exercises in order to develop and validate materiel and non-materiel solutions to address Fleet capability shortfalls.

-Experience executing and assessing experiments and exercises to include determining objectives, evaluation criteria and methodology, data collection, conduct of project and final impact on related doctrinal publication.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

  • You will assess tactical, doctrinal and capability gaps for the information warfighting community and across the Information Related Capabilities.
  • You will execute command assignments as primary review authority of doctrine development.
  • You will coordinate with joint/ Service organizations, deploying and returning strike group and ARG staffs and units, fleet warfare improvement programs working groups, Joint and Navy lessons learned centers, etc.
  • You will conduct analyses and develop studies in order to identify new or emerging threats, and their impact on doctrinal publications, and implementation of emerging doctrine and tactics in fleet training programs and readiness assessments.
  • You will evaluate how innovative material and non material solutions can be used to support the warfighter.
  • You will coordinate with NWDC, WDCs, like Joint/Service entities, and others within NIWDC to ensure updates are in accordance with joint and Navy guidance and directives.
  • You will to propose, prioritize, develop and validate doctrinal publications.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 4/2/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/2/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12925953-26-DSJ