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Assessment 1

1. From the descriptions below, select the letter that BEST describes your level of experience for the position of GS-14 Interdisciplinary General Engineer, Computer Engineer, Physical Scientist or Computer Scientist. To be creditable, specialized experience must be at the next lower grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Creditable specialized experience includes:

A. I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade-level (GS-13) in the federal service which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position. Qualifying specialized experience would include: expert knowledge of advanced concepts, principles, and practices of Modular Open System Architectures (MOSA), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE) software development methodology, developing software compliant with Risk Management Framework (RMF), simulation interoperability, physical sciences, geography and social sciences, and data sciences to provide subject matter expertise and provide functional technical leadership of interdisciplinary teams; expert knowledge in the field of data science, to provide to guidance and direction to interdisciplinary teams that perform the mining, collecting, storing, preparation, and provisioning of data and to evaluate software and algorithms created to interpret and extract information that is used to improve Joint Training by providing a deeper understanding of the environment and decisions made during training events. Understanding and experience with software development and data preparation applications and libraries including Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket, ArcGIS, QGIS, ERDAS Imagine, Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, and GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) is required; expert knowledge of the data used in Joint Training process to include the Joint Event Lifecycle (JELC) process and the Models and Simulations used today in the Joint Live Virtual Constructive (JLVC) Federation, and an understanding of the challenges and issues that need to be addressed to create and lead a data centric vision and strategy for the JTSE. The specific data include the sources, storage formats, schemas and runtime formats for terrain, force structure, system characteristics, C2 messaging formats, and exercise data used to inform the development of the Master Scenario Event List (MSEL) to provide technical input, advice, guidance, and final technical reviews; expert knowledge of geospatial standards bodies to include the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO), the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), the Geospatial Intelligence Standards Working Group, and the Defense Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWIG), and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation to provide advice and guidance and recommend policies in assigned areas of responsibility; and expert knowledge of the Service maintained authoritative force structure data managed by the J8 to include the standard Global Force Management data model for those forces, the process to obtain access to the data, the J35 efforts to operationalize the force structure data by integration of Capability, Readiness, Availability, Employment/location (CRAE) characteristics, and ability to guide integration efforts with JTSE simulation and modeling ready data.

B. I do not possess the required experience to qualify for this position.

2. From the list below, select the response that most closely represents your education for the position of Interdisciplinary General Engineer GS-0801, Computer Engineer GS-0854, Physical Scientist GS-1301 or Computer Scientist GS-1550.

A. I have a Professional engineering Degree. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

B. I have a combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying professional engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by a Professional engineer registration.

C. I have a Bachelor's degree in computer science.

D. I have a Bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science where at least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus.

E. I have a degree in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.

F. I have a combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors physical science, engineering or mathematics that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science.

G. My education is not listed above.

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