Exercise Campaign Planner

SAIC is seeking a Regional Campaign Planner - Northeast Asia located at Camp Smith in Hawaii to support the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) Exercise Plans Branch (J752) to bring Northeast Asia regional expertise—spanning Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and Taiwan—to support the development, integration, and synchronization of the USPACOM Joint Training and Exercise Campaign Plan.

NOTE: International travel up to 30% of the year may be required to support planning and coordination with Northeast Asia partner nation defense staffs and forward-stationed United States forces.

JOB DESCRIPTION: 

• Coordinate unified action across USPACOM, partner nations, and component commands to develop a regional Joint Training and Exercise Campaign Plan, while maintaining actionable plans, milestones, and required deliverables.
• Priority Focus Area 1 – Bilateral Defense Dialogues: Plan, coordinate, and support recurring bilateral and multilateral defense dialogues with Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Prepare read-ahead materials, decision briefs, talking points, and post-engagement summaries that advance defense cooperation objectives and inform theater training priorities.
• Priority Focus Area 2 – Exercise Planning Documents: Support the development of the Joint Training Plan (JTP), which leverages national and strategic-level guidance—including the National Security Strategy (NSS), National Defense Strategy (NDS), and National Military Strategy (NMS)—along with the USPACOM Commander's Theater Strategy and Theater Campaign Plan to outline USPACOM's Joint Exercise Programs six (6) years out. Additionally, support the development and maintenance of Annex M to the USPACOM Campaign Order, which provides resource-informed information used to plan exercises two (2) years out.
• Priority Focus Area 3 – Theater and Strategic Planning Events: Support operational planning events, theater posture planning meetings, theater engagement planning meetings, and strategic planning forums. Create solutions to complex problems and apply operational art in a -dynamic geostrategic security environment to provide input to strategic and operational initiatives within the command.
• Priority Focus Area 4 – Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC) Events: Support select JELC events for Field Training Exercises (FTX), Command-Post Exercises (CPX), and associated training support activities and investments across the Northeast Asia region.
• Priority Focus Area 5 – Relationships: Develop and maintain productive working relationships across the USPACOM staff, components, subordinate unified commands, direct reporting units, and allies and partners throughout the USPACOM Area of Responsibility (AOR)—especially amongst Northeast Asian countries (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Mongolia)—to enable effective coordination, collaboration, and unity of effort in training and exercise planning.
• Develop and maintain efficient processes to support exercise planning, senior leader engagements, planning meetings, RFIs, and the production of exercise orders and directives across Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.