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ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION Yorktown Systems Group, Inc., and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, are a committed team of dedicated former military and civilian professionals who believe in providing ethical and quality services to Government customers. Our leadership team is composed primarily of Veterans who are now serving in a corporate environment rather than in uniform. Our customer's missions become our own and we are committed to working as a team to achieve success. Because of the depth and experiences of our corporate leadership, we can assure all our customers that "we will do what we say we can do" and will focus on our customer's missions rather than corporate goals. Our business model is based on a personal commitment from our leaders to maintain contact with our customers to continually and consistently gauge our performance. Yorktown Systems Group was founded on the idea that providing quality and ethical services with a laser focus on our customer's goals is an effective long-term business model. Our mission, therefore, is to help our customers meet their requirements and goals. The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This provision shall not apply to instances in which an employee who has access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of such employee's essential job functions discloses the compensation of such other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to such information, unless such disclosure is in response to a formal complaint or charge, in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or is consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. The Unconventional, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yorktown Systems Group, Inc.
Job Description
Summary:
Yorktown systems Group is seeking highly qualified India and Subcontinent Region Subject Matter Expert to provide professional services and support to the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) of the TRADOC G-2. The TRADOC G-2 facilitates and acts as the principal enabler for continuous learning across all TRADOC lines of effort through acquiring, analyzing, creating, organizing, applying and transferring data, information, and knowledge in the context of current and future operations. The G-2 is responsible for delivering the Operating Environment to facilitate the training of deploying units on joint, national and interagency information, emerging asymmetric capabilities gleaned from world-wide operations; integrating processes, practices, concepts and materiel capabilities into Joint and Service DOTMLPF solutions; and coordinating with the training centers to provide realistic enemy and environmental signatures into models and simulations in support of realistic training.
The Foreign Military Studies Office produces the Operational Environment Watch (OE Watch) journal. OE Watch is a monthly, open-source foreign media digest that focuses on understudied and unconsidered foreign perspectives of defense and security issues. OE Watch is unclassified and distributed publicly on the FMSO website. The period of performance for this position is 1 November 2020 - 8 September 2021, and the period of the SME/Author's work should support production for the September 2020 through September 2021 issues of OE Watch.
Specific duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Participate as a Subject Matter Expert and Author on security issues principally focused on India, but also including the subcontinent region. The Author will produce three articles per monthly issue of OE Watch in accordance with FMSO-provided article submission guidelines and timelines.
- Research unconsidered and understudied defense and security issues from foreign open sources that may include journals, newspapers, television, radio, books, and electronic media relative to operational environment and global security issues.
- Translate short, representative sections of the foreign language research material.
- Write 300–500-word commentary that describes the article's importance and insight into the operational environment.
- Provide copyright-free visual support and proper image attribution for each article, which may include pictures, graphics, etc.
- An alternative research paper or other product may be required in place of OE Watch articles.
- This is a Part Time position, not to exceed 20 hours per month.
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Honolulu, HI
Full Time