The billets shown here highlight representative positions across the FA49 community. They are intended as examples only—actual unit structures and authorizations may vary. This page provides an overview of the types of roles and responsibilities an ORSA can expect to perform within these organizations.
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STRAT PLANNER
Unit: Arlington National Cemetery
Location: Arlington National Cemetery, VA
Rank designation:
Major
Duty description:
Serves as an Operations Research and Systems Analyst (ORSA) in Strategy, Plans and Policy Directorate, Army National Military Cemeteries. Leads and works as part of a team of professional military and civilian analysts to provide credible operations analyses of future concepts, policies, and requirements for Army cemetery operations. Responsible for combining military expertise with technical operations research skills to conduct, synthesize, and interpret complex quantitative and qualitative data to formulate concise, understandable recommendations for senior decision makers with the Army and DoD. Coordinates at the DoD/Joint/HQDA/ levels to ensure integration of study and Army program requirements.
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STRATEGIC ANALYST/ORSA
Unit: U.S. Army Element Indo-Pacific Command Headquarters
Location: Camp Smith, NY
Rank designation:
Major
Duty description:
CONDUCTS JOINT, INTERAGENCY, AND MULTINATIONAL PLANNING ACTIVITIES ACROSS THE FULL RANGE OF MILITARY OPERATIONS. APPLIES OPERATIONAL ART TO OPERATIONAL DESIGN USING THE JOINT OPERATION PLANNING PROCESS (JOPP). APPLES OPERATIONAL DESIGN TO PROVIDE THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK THAT WILL UNDERPIN JOINT OPERATION OR CAMPAIGN PLANS AND SUBSEQUENT EXECUTION. DEVELOPS, COORDINATES, AND MAINTAINS USPACOM OPLANS/CONPLANS AND ASSOCIATED TIME-PHRASED FORCE AND DEPLOYMENT DATA (TPFDD). DEVELOPS PLANS FOR MAJOR WAR (MW) AND SMALL SCALE CONTINGENCIES (SSC). PREPARES SUPPORTING PLANS AND REVIEWS SUBORDINATE/SUPPORTING COMMAND PLANS AND ASSOCIATED TPFDDS. DEVELOPS AND RECOMMENDS MILITARY OBJECTIVES, OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS, TASK ASSIGNMENTS, FORCES AND FORCE DEPLOYMENTS. EVALUATES, DEVELOPS, AND COORDINATES USPACOM SUBMISSIONS TO THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF (JCS) TO AMEND OR REVISE THE GUIDANCE FOR EMPLOYMENT OF THE FORCE (GEF) AND JOINT STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES PLAN (JSCP).
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STRATEGIC PLANNER
Unit: U.S. Army Element Indo-Pacific Command Headquarters
Location: Camp Smith, NY
Rank designation:
Major
Duty description:
CONDUCTS JOINT, INTERAGENCY, AND MULTINATIONAL PLANNING ACTIVITIES ACROSS THE FULL RANGE OF MILITARY OPERATIONS. APPLIES OPERATIONAL ART TO OPERATIONAL DESIGN USING THE JOINT OPERATION PLANNING PROCESS (JOPP). APPLIES OPERATIONAL DESIGN TO PROVIDE THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK THAT WILL UNDERPIN JOINT OPERATION OR CAMPAIGN PLANS AND SUBSEQUENT EXECUTION. DEVELOPS, COORDINATES, AND MAINTAINS USINDOPACOM OPLANS/CONPLANS AND ASSOCIATED TIME-PHASED FORCE AND DEPLOYMENT DATA (TPFDD). DEVELOPS PLANS FOR MAJOR WAR (MW) AND SMALL SCALE CONTINGENCIES (SSCS). PREPARES SUPPORTING PLANS AND REVIEWS SUBORDINATE/SUPPORTING COMMAND PLANS AND ASSOCIATED TPFDDS. DEVELOPS AND RECOMMENDS MILITARY OBJECTIVES, OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS, TASK ASSIGNMENTS, FORCES AND FORCE DEPLOYMENTS. EVALUATES, DEVELOPS, AND COORDINATES USINDOPACOM SUBMISSIONS TO THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF (JCS) TO AMEND OR REVISE THE GUIDANCE FOR EMPLOYMENT OF THE FORCE (GEF) AND JOINT STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES PLAN (JSCP).
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STRATEGIC WARGAME ANALYS
Unit: Center For Army Analysis (CAA)
Location: Fort Belvoir, VA
Rank designation:
Major
Duty description:
Combines wargaming and other techniques to influence strategic and operational level challenges and opportunities that drive change from idea to impact; focus areas include theater strategy, personnel and force management, force structure and employment, joint and multinational warfighting, acquisition and resourcing. Conducts theater, joint and combined campaign analyses across the spectrum of conflict in a Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational (JIIM) context to inform critical senior leader decisions within the HQDA, Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, and OSD. Evaluates current and future warfighting capacity and capabilities against conventional or unconventional adversaries. Coordinates and integrates methods that include strategic level wargames, table-top exercises, and models and simulations. Supports, and leads when necessary, the Strategic Wargaming Division consisting of 12 members.
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STUDIES & RESEARCH OFFIC
Unit: 528th SOSB (ABN); U.S. Army Element Space Command
Location: Peterson Space Force Base, CO
Rank designation:
Major
Duty description:
Will ensure the development, publication and maintenance of all USSPACECOM training and supporting documents, to include critical materials such as Joint Publications and the latest space research developments and research. Additionally, will provide the COCOM's strategic-level research to supplement training and education curriculum development and delivery. Develop, publish and maintain all courseware for USSPACECOM training. Performs strategic-level special research regarding space operations. Leads the Space Education and Training Board to develop the curriculum for the Joint Space Operations Force.
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SUPV OR & SA
Unit: 21st Theater Support Command
Location: Panzer Kaserne, Germany
Rank designation:
Lieutenant Colonel

SUPV OR & SA
Unit: 21st Theater Sustainment Command
Location: Panzer Kaserne, Germany
Rank designation:
Major
Duty description:
PERFORMS RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES REGARDING COMBAT OPERATIONS, DOCTRINE, TACTICS, SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS, FORCE DESIGN, FORCE STRUCTURE, AND THE DEPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYMENT OF SYSTEMS A THEATER SUSTAINMENT COMMAND. ANALYZES MILITARY RECRUITING, RETENTION, STRENGTH, MOBILIZATION, PERSONNEL, TRAINING, AND STRUCTURE ISSUES FOR BOTH ACTIVE AND RESERVE COMPONENTS. DETERMINES OPTIMAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ALLOCATION STRATEGIES THROUGH ANALYSES OF FORCE STRUCTURE, MANPOWER REQUIREMENTS, AUTHORIZATIONS, PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENTS, MATERIEL ACQUISITION, AND LOGISTICS PROGRAMS. CONDUCTS CONCEPTUAL STUDIES AND ANALYSES OF MAJOR ARMY AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS DEALING WITH ALTERNATIVE MILITARY STRATEGIES, FORCE DESIGNS, STRATEGIC FORCE ISSUES, LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT, WEAPON SYSTEMS, AND THEIR ASSOCIATED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS. DESIGNS TESTS AND EXPERIMENTS FOR COMPLEX WEAPON SYSTEMS AND FUTURE COMBAT DEVELOPMENTS CONCEPTS WITHIN MATERIEL ACQUISITION AND F
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SW - SNR STRAT WARGAMER
Unit: Center For Army Analysis (CAA)
Location: Fort Belvoir, VA
Rank designation:
Major
Duty description:
SERVES AS THE SENIOR MILITARY ANALYST ON A TEAM THAT DESIGNS, DEVELOPS, AND EXECUTES WARGAMES TO HELP SENIOR ARMY LEADERS SOLVE STRATEGIC AND ENTERPRISE LEVEL PROBLEMS. THIS ENTAILS WORKING WITH MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS TO DEVELOP AN APPROPRIATE PROBLEM FRAME, DETERMINING AN EFFECTIVE WARGAME METHODOLOGY TO FACILITATE ANALYSIS RELATED TO THE PROBLEM AND PLANNING AN EVENT TO ENSURE BROAD LEARNING AND QUALITY ANALYSIS RELATED TO THE PROBLEM.
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TD LEAD ORSA
Unit: U.S. Army Joint Modernization Command
Location: Fort Bliss, TX
Rank designation:
Major
Duty description:
SERVES AS THE LEAD OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND SYSTEMS ANALYST (ORSA) OF THE JOINT MODERNIZATION COMMAND WITHIN THE ARMY FUTURES COMMAND AT FORT BLISS, TX. RESPONSIBLE FOR THE APPLICATION OF ADVANCED OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF NON-MATERIEL SOLUTIONS TO URGENT, SPECIFIC, JOINT WARFIGHTER PROBLEMS THROUGH THE EXECUTION OF THE ARMY'S ANNUAL MULTI-ECHELON, JOINT AND MULTINATIONAL JOINT WARFIGHTING ASSESSMENT (JWA) LIVE MDO EXPERIMENT/EXERCISE. COMBINES MILITARY EXPERTISE AND ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF STATISTICS AND ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES TO PLAN, CONDUCT, SYNTHESIZE, AND INTERPRET COMPLEX QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS. RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERFORMANCE, WELFARE, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF A TEAM OF HIGHLY EDUCATED AND SKILLED FIELD-GRADE OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND SYSTEMS ANALYSTS. COORDINATES AT THE DOD, JOINT, HQDA AND ATEC LEVELS TO ENSURE INTEGRATION OF TEST AND EVALUATION.
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TR-CH, TR PROG & RES
Unit: DCS G-3/5 (Office Of The Deputy Chief Of Staff For Operations And Plans (G-3/5/7))
Location: The Pentagon, VA
Rank designation:
Colonel
