Requisition Number: 5810 Required Travel: 0 - 10% Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt Hours Per Week: 40.00000000000000000 Security Clearance: Secret Level of Experience: Entry Employee Referral Bonus Amount: ERP Amount: $1,500 Who We Are: HII - Mission Technologies (HII-MT) is currently seeking a Weapons and Tactics Support technician to work out of the 56th Rescue Squadron, Aviano AB, Italy. As the Weapons and Tactics Support technician, you will provide direct interface/support with Operations, Weapons and Tactics (W&T), Planning and Intelligence Sections in the development of mission requests, tasking, planning, and execution services for home station readiness exercises and inspections, local and major exercises, spin up training, contingency deployments, humanitarian events and all other areas of PR. HII - MT provides mission-critical engineering and technical service to Information Technology, Federal Civilian, and National Security, Aerospace & Defense and International government and commercial customers at over 100 locations worldwide. A division of Huntington Ingalls Industries: Defense & Federal Solutions, a business group within Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Mission Technology division, helps solve tough national security challenges for the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and federal civilian agencies. Our expert capabilities include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), and cyber; secure enterprise IT engineering and operations; military training and simulation; logistics management and integrated product support; and fleet maintenance, modernization, repair and sustainment. What You Will Do: - Provide direct interface/support with Operations, Weapons and Tactics (W&T), Planning and Intelligence Sections in the development of mission requests, tasking, planning, and execution services for home station readiness exercises and inspections, local and major exercises, spin up training, contingency deployments, humanitarian events and all other areas of PR. - Maintain crypto requirements for aircraft avionics, ensure proper codes are available for missions, and assist the Comsec Responsible Officer with control/destruction as required. - Provide technical expertise for existing T-1 modifications and other non-standard systems (e.g. Situational Awareness Data Link (SADL); Intelligence Broadcast Receiver (IBR); Aviation BFT2 (AVN-BFT2) Blue Force Situational Awareness (BFSA); Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and SATCOM radios with Data Transmission Capabilities. - Maintain equipment to include upgrades, troubleshooting, and repair. - Assist aircraft maintenance personnel and units with troubleshooting T1 modified systems, conduct avionics-related training as required. - Update existing and load new software (FalconView, JMPS, AWABS) for all T-1 systems and computers, when not covered by existing SPO contract support, and assist in maintaining and updating monthly FVW data files (ECHUM, DAFIF, etc.). - Maintain configuration control of equipment by serial number and location, equipment control logs for all equipment in Squadron Ops Center, Deployed Tactical Operations Center (TOC) and aircraft by and coordinate with base agencies for repair/replacement as required. - Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair/replace Electronically Linked Mission Overlay (ELMO) and SOF Air Mission Suite Enhanced Situational Awareness (SAMS-ESA) computers, assist with ensuring proper Common Operating Picture data feeds are properly functioning and displayed (e.g. FalconView [FVW] and Google Earth Enterprise Client [GE/EC]). - Provide required security for all classified/controlled components in government supplied storage areas. - Perform preflight operational systems checks; support launch and recovery operations, determine requirements for and prepare all avionic support deployment packages; ensure all equipment is functioning and up to date; reconfigure equipment and maintain currency when at home station; and, conduct Periodic Maintenance Inspections on equipment, ensure flying aircraft are prepared and all systems operational prior to flight; brief aircrews on status and any shortfalls; and move operational equipment between aircraft (as required) to cover shortfalls. - Maintain BFSA devices and links to the Intelligence Broadcast System. - Assist in establishing interface of HPW network to Personnel Recovery Command (PRC) network, and other control entities, configuring gateway interface for Data Link networks. Assist as necessary in establishing connectivity to chat networks. - Provide compatibility verification for any ELMO Flying laptop computer systems. Verify latest approved versions of Microsoft Operating Systems (OS) and transition accordingly. Ensure compatibility of classified systems data with OS, Check compatibility with Portable Flight Planning System (PFPS) classified data sets (e.g. icon, point editor, etc.), and confer with Intel personnel to ve