#NC25___184324 - AirC2 Domain Integration Validation and Verification - Closed
Deadline: November 5, 2025
Requester: NATO
Location: The Hague, Netherlands
Job type: Contractor
Start date: January, 2026
Security clearance: NATO SECRET
SCOPE OF WORK / DUTIES / ROLES
- The Contractor shall participate in a kick-off meeting within one working week after the signing of this contract. This can be a virtual meeting executed via electronic means using Conference Call capabilities. During the kick-off meeting, the Contractor will be assigned to one or more AirC2 projects and provide and discuss a plan for executing the tasks under this statement of work. Purchaser and Contractor will discuss the plan and amend where appropriate;
- The Contractor will provide email minutes containing, at least decisions and actions decided during the meeting;
- The Contractor shall participate in regular status meetings, either in-person (where possible) or via electronic means using Conference Call capabilities. The rhythm for these meetings will be decided at the kick-off meeting;
- The Contractor will initiate these meetings and provide email minutes containing at least decisions and actions decided during the meeting;
- The Contractor shall support Integration, Verification, and Operational Validation activities at national sites acting in the role of an AirC2 Centre Test Engineer during the period leading up to and including site-roll out activities as well as provide their support to any planned on-site Operational Demonstrations;
- System Test Plan (to be delivered periodically as required to support the activity under test;
- Test Case / Procedure (to be delivered as required to support the specific activity under test for the period needed;
- Test Run / Logs (Test logs generated by the statff are archived and provided to support the event/activity;
- System Test Report (to be delivered for each event supported);
- Problem/Observation Reports (these reports will be manually entered into JIRA and their specifc counts will be further reflected in the test reporting;
- Test script workbooks (mission card catalogue is developed and maintained to support the various test set-ups and execution details used by the Operator and maintained in a master repository for future use;
- Technical reports (generated as required and directed).
REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
- 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in the duties related to this contract;
- Proven knowledge of, and practical experience in, modern test engineering and test management methods and paradigms;
- Proven knowledge of, and practical experience in, the operational or technical use of Air C2 systems supported by NCIA for areas such as system administration, C2 Resource Management, Force Management, Airspace;
- 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in the duties related to this contract;
- Proven knowledge of, and practical experience in, modern test engineering and test management methods and paradigms;
- Hands on experience in automation and Git (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins);
- Hands on experience with Kubernetes (AKS, OpenStack), Unix and/or Linux system administration (RedHat) and good understanding of networking protocols;
- 3 years of scripting (bash, Python) or/or programming experience.
Desirable:
- Experience interpreting and/or capturing business and user requirements through use cases and developing test cases accordingly;
- Recent experience in planning and execution of validation activities within large scale C2 exercises;
- Knowledge of NATO Tactical Data Links and other military or civilian interoperability standards for messaging and data exchange related to air traffic;
- General up-to-date knowledge of computer system architectures, systems security, client/server, LAN/WAN and network concepts, test techniques, Database Management Systems (DBMS) and data management concepts;
- Instructor background;
- Validated ICC, CSI, MASE or other related product experience with C2 nodes within the NATO Area of Responsibility (AOR);
- Recent experience in planning and execution of validation activities within large scale C2 exercises. Staff provided by the contractor must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations and must have an excellent command of spoken and written English
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