UNTL-based METL Development and Maintenance Support
Status: Position Filled — Accepting Applications for Ready Replacement Pool (RRP) consideration.
Prevailance is seeking an experienced, mission-focused professional to provide Universal Naval Task List (UNTL)-based Mission Essential Task List (METL) Development and Maintenance Support to Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR), the Navy’s Information Warfare (IW) Type Commander (TYCOM).
NAVIFOR is responsible for organizing, manning, training, equipping, and maintaining Navy IW Forces to ensure required levels of readiness afloat and ashore. This role provides expert Mission Analysis and METL development support, including the creation of technical reports following the NAVIFOR Mission Analysis Report (MAR) format and enabling the refinement of mission models across NAVIFOR’s enterprise.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review existing policy and doctrine to validate specified and implied tasks supporting Information Warfare syndicate communities
- Apply Universal Modeling Language (UML) object-oriented methods to model relationships among strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war tasks
- Develop Temporal, Informational, and Spatial View Operations Templates that visually depict NAVIFOR command activities
- Define horizontal and vertical task linkages across levels of war to support execution of OPLANs, CONPLANs, and mission orders
- Produce graphical and written descriptions supporting the three-step METL development process defined in the UNTL Manual
- Conduct analytical support to align performance standards with operational commander intent and Concepts of Operations (CONOPs)
- Validate mission essentiality using decisive factors to ensure tasks are operationally relevant and support readiness assessments
- Facilitate development of Mission Models per USFFC Primary Review Authority (PRA) refinement tasking for all NAVIFOR subordinate commands
- Analyze and develop taxonomy structures for NAVIFOR commands aligned with USFFC mission modeling approaches and DRRS transition requirements
- Define mission threads using object-oriented modeling to support Master Scenario Event List (MSEL) development for Navy Warfare Training Plan (NWTP) enhancement
- Improve NAVIFOR’s UNTL-based Mission Analysis technical report template to standardize METL development outputs
- Facilitate the NAVIFOR METL Review Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to ensure METLs are reviewed and revised with internal and external stakeholders
- Coordinate METL updates in NTIMS, serving as a Plan Editor, Requirements Editor, or User Group Analyst in support of NMETL and NWTP development