Primary Location: Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Clearance: Secret clearance

Ability to work remotely: No

Obsidian Solutions Group is seeking a Service Support SME to provide functional expertise, scenario development support, and training exercise integration for Mission Command Exercises. The ideal candidate brings substantial experience from Special Operations Forces or related Army branches, along with formal professional military education and hands-on involvement in designing and executing Mission Command training events. This role ensures that logistics, sustainment, intelligence, fires, and other warfighting functions are accurately represented within complex training environments.

Responsibilities

• Support planning, design, and execution of Mission Command Exercises by integrating service support functions into exercise scenarios.
• Formulate, coordinate, and refine exercise vignettes, injects, and support-related operational problem sets for use in SOMTC training events.
• Provide subject-matter expertise on sustainment, logistics, intelligence, fires, and other service support functions relevant to Special Operations and conventional missions.
• Collaborate with exercise planners, mission command staff, and technical teams to ensure realistic and doctrinally accurate scenario development.
• Assist in synchronizing exercise resources, timelines, personnel roles, and functional capabilities across all exercise support elements.
• Participate in exercise control (EXCON) activities, helping adjudicate support-related actions and guiding training audience decision-making.
• Conduct research and analysis on operational support requirements, emerging capabilities, and mission trends to inform scenario realism.
• Support the preparation of exercise materials, documentation, and control cell products.
• Provide mentorship and operational insight to participants on service support planning, integration, and execution.
• Contribute to after-action reviews by identifying lessons learned, producing support-function observations, and recommending improvements for future exercises.
• Ensure all support-related activities comply with DoD, Army, and Special Operations Forces regulations and security requirements.

Requirements:

• Security Clearance: Active Secret clearance required
• Associate degree
• OR five years of related military experience (may substitute for degree)
• OR two years of experience researching, planning, preparing, coordinating, and executing Mission Command Exercises (may substitute for degree)

Special Skills/Qualifications Required:

Graduate of one of the following military education courses (or equivalent):

• Captain Career Course
• Intermediate Level Education
• Basic Warrant Officer Course
• Warrant Officer Advanced Course
• Advanced Noncommissioned Officer Course
• First Sergeant Course
• Sergeants Major Course
• Ability to design, formulate, and integrate exercise scenarios into the SOMTC training environment

Minimal Background/Experience Required:

• Previous assignment to Special Operations Forces (Special Forces, MISO, Civil Affairs, Ranger Regiment, SOA, Special Mission units)
• OR assignment in Military Intelligence, Logistics Corps, or Field Artillery
• Equivalent assignments within other DoD branches accepted

Additional Desired Qualifications/Experience:

• One year of experience researching, planning, preparing, coordinating, and executing Mission Command Exercises

Company Description

Obsidian Solutions Group LLC (OSG) is a fast-growing professional services firm based in Fredericksburg, VA. We create value for our customers by delivering technology-enabled & mission-oriented technical solutions that solve complex problems, protecting people, information, and assets. Our core capabilities are in providing Enterprise IT, Intelligence Analysis, Production & Development and Knowledge-Based Professional Services Solutions that enable the customer’s mission. Obsidian Solutions Group LLC is a veteran-owned small business.

A career at Obsidian Solutions Group means you can put your expertise, credentials, and talents to great use working with customers in the DOD and Intelligence Community, while enjoying the excitement of working in a fast-growing organization committed to making a difference for our customers and in our community. Contribute independently and collaboratively alongside our amazing team of doers and thinkers. Obsidian Solutions Group is small enough to offer a family atmosphere yet large enough to deliver a highly competitive compensation package. We hire and retain the best in the industry, offering exceptional benefits that protect the well-being of our employees, their spouses and domestic partners, and their families.

Our corporate philosophy is centered on hiring and retaining employees with the requisite skills, professional experience, personal commitment, and ethical standards necessary to foster a culture of operational excellence necessary to surpass our customer’s expectations.

Disclaimer

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Obsidian Solutions Group is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, protected veteran status, and any other non-merit factor, or any other characteristic protected by law.