Position Description
IT Cloud Computing Analyst – Washington, DC
Cowan & Associates, Inc. supports a Headquarters-level Navy organization – Chief
of Naval Operations Staff (OPNAV N2N6) with a full range of activities to, as
described below.
1. Responsibilities:
 Assist with the development and/or review of OPNAV Cloud Computing (CC).
This requirement includes Task Force Cloud and other cloud related efforts.
Intelligence Community Information Technology Environment (IC ITE).
 Support required in response to an Enterprise Architecture ES) transformation
mandate from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The
ODNI mandated transformation is the IC ITE initiative, which drives fundamental
changes to the existing Navy Intelligence and Operational Architectures. Support
will help drive developing and executing the Navy IC ITE adoption plan.
 The Navy IC adoption plan will require aligning and synchronizing the efforts of
several information dominance stakeholders responsible for modernizing Navy
Enterprise Networks systems and programs, for procuring Afloat and Ashore
Navy Enterprise Networks systems and capabilities as part of the IC ITE and JIE
mandates.
 For each specifically assigned program, project, or initiative, that is either part of
or related to the AC2 IT portfolio, the Senior Analyst shall provide requirements
support as follows:
 Provide requirements identification, tracking, and integration support services to
ensure Fleet and Requirements Officer (RO) priorities and objectives are fully
articulated. Captured requirements must also be synchronized with and
leveraged across all AC2 IT programs.
 Monitor consolidation, migration, development, implementation, and termination
efforts, consistent with Navy, Joint, and DoD Enterprise goals and objectives.
Report all deviations in plans briefed by Fleet / SYSCOM / PEO / Program
representatives to the designated RO.
 Conduct reviews and provide analysis of all related Joint Capability Integration
Development System (JCIDS) initiatives and associated documents (e.g. Initial
Capabilities Documents (ICD), Capabilities Development Documents (CDD),
Capability Production Documents (CPD), Joint Operation Concepts (JOC), and
Joint Functional Concepts (JFC)).
 Provide comments and recommended actions to the designated RO, to ensure
all JCIDS documents will meet established DoD, Joint, and Navy requirements.
Support coordination with the program management office and Type
Commanders to determine Fleet, SYSCOM, and COCOM requirements and
priorities.
 Assist in the definition, adjudication, validation, and cross-organizational
prioritization of the identified requirements.
 Assist the designated RO with all requirements liaison and collaboration activities
with other Services, the Joint Staff, and other organizations by reviewing queries,
tracking issues and/or concerns, and preparing draft responses in an appropriate
format.
Position Description
IT Cloud Computing Analyst – Washington, DC
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Attend and summarize relevant Navy and DoD Overarching Integrated Process
Teams (OIPT),
Provide assistance in preparing updates to acquisition and related Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instructions and Manuals (CJCSI/CJCSM) that will
impact or drive requirements.
Assist OPNAV N2N6 in staffing acquisition documentation, including Capability
Development Documents (CDD), Capability Production Documents (CPD), and
Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMP). This will include but is not limited to
drafting the initial document, comment resolution, final smoothing, routing, and/or
ensuring documents complete all appropriate compliance checklists.
Support the RO and OPNAV N2N6’s role as the Resource Sponsor in all phases
of the budgeting process, the DoD acquisition process, technology integration
processes, and logistics life cycle management processes.
Prepare information papers, memos, and briefs, including recommendations for
integrating OPNAV N2N6 goals and priorities into the appropriate processes.
Aide in the acknowledgement, coordination, and closure of all SIPRNET,
NIPRNET, and JACO “taskers” assigned to branch ROs supporting the AC2 IT
portfolio and related efforts.
Ensure daily blog entries are made for all open tasks. Monitor, validate, and
coordinate due dates and blog entries daily for the AC2 IT portfolio when
assigned branch tasker coordination responsibilities.
2. Required Skills/Experience:
 Minimum Experience: Five (5) years of progressive experience (at least three (3)
years of which were in a managerial capacity) in requirements analysis, data
mining, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence,
Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems and/or unmanned systems.
 Knowledge of Department of Defense Cloud Computing, program and planning
analysis is highly desired.
 Three (3) years of professional experience providing analysis at higher level
military staffs, preferably Pentagon or Washington, DC area.
 Excellent analytical skills. Executes basic technical tasks, and applies analytical
problem solving methodologies. Assist in the development of procedures and
protocols for conducting analyses.
 Expert at Microsoft Office Suite, including Access, PowerPoint, Excel
spreadsheets and Word. Excellent “people” skills, and communications skills,
both oral and written.
3. Education: Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in a related field of study.
4. Personnel Security Requirements: U.S. Citizen and required to have a
current Top Secret - SCI clearance.
5. Place of Performance: On-site at Pentagon in Washington, DC.
Position Description
IT Cloud Computing Analyst – Washington, DC
6. Travel and Other Direct Costs (ODC): Analyst may be required to travel
within CONUS. Travel shall be consistent with the amounts and limitations
specified in the Joint Travel Regulations (JTR). All travel must be approved by
the government before any costs are incurred.
7. Point of Contact: Brian Cowan, w(703) 920-2282, c(703) 622-1138,
brian@cowanassociates.net