Triad Modernization Advisor (1099)

The role

You will validate optimization models and decision support tools using nuclear triad modernization expertise. You will also organize, clean, and interpret acquisition planning and budget datasets.

What you will do

• Apply firsthand expertise in nuclear triad modernization to validate optimization models and decision support tools
• Pressure-test model assumptions and outputs against enterprise reality
• Work with an interdisciplinary team to design, build, and refine models
• Partner with customers, product leadership, and external stakeholders
• Organize, clean, and translate acquisition planning and budget datasets
• Interpret and visualize data on program cost, schedule, and performance
• Reconcile data from multiple sources in different formats

Required qualifications

• Firsthand experience in nuclear triad modernization
• Held program, requirements, resourcing, or operational planning responsibility inside nuclear triad modernization efforts
• Working command of the nuclear enterprise including PPBE and POM rhythms, milestone decisions, and appropriation categories
• Accountable for analysis that informed resourcing or program decisions
• Experience briefing and defending analysis at the O6, flag, or SES level
• Systems thinking to trace effects across program, budget, and operational boundaries
• Active Secret clearance or above

Nice to have

• Experience at or above the O4/GS-13 level in a Combatant Command J5, J8, or similar organization
• Background in consulting, systems engineering, operational planning, or mission-focused solution development
• Experience within operational commands, service headquarters, Joint Staff, OSW, or defense innovation organizations
• Modeling, simulation, or operations research experience

About the company

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. This role will support DEFCON AI.