Sr. Defense Technologist – Surface Warfare Job Listing at SPA in Alexandria, VA (Job ID 2024-19105)

Description

Qualifications

Required:

• MS in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, or related discipline
• Minimum of 15 years of experience bolstering the development and implementation of advanced surface warfare and technologies
• Skilled in conceiving, planning, and conducting research studies combining operational expertise with novel technology approaches and sophisticated research techniques to assess military effectiveness and engineering viability
• Experience in the use of advanced techniques, theories, precepts, and practices in technological programs, preferably those that have transitioned to operational use
• Comfortable engaging with senior personnel and providing written or verbal assessments
• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance

Desired:

• PhD in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, or related discipline
• Joint/COCOM staff experience
• Experience, background., and knowledge of program transition efforts
  
  

The successful candidate will provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support services to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Mission Capabilities (OASD(MC)) for Assault Breaker II (ABII). ASD(MC) takes a unified, missions-level view across the entire DoD enterprise to analyze joint missions and identify crosscutting technology gaps critical to military readiness. ABII is a joint initiative chartered with the Services to analyze the hardest military challenges facing the U.S. and its allies. ABII is also intended to develop experiments to provide future warfighting architectures to address these challenges. The successful candidate will support the ASD(MC) with a warfare specialty including planning, developing, and executing technical projects of a R&D nature, concerned with unique or controversial problems which have an important effect on major DoD programs. Will provide specialized professional, technical, and engineering support services that complement the OUSD(R&E) mission and enable the ASD(MC) to accomplish its mission. The candidate will apply experience, background, and knowledge of DoD program transition efforts. Will assist in conducting quantitative analyses of system/mission requirements as they pertain to the potential insertion of advanced technologies in support of ABII. The candidate will provide in-depth expertise in the assessment of proposed demonstrations and experimentation to determine the technical merit of proposed objectives and methodologies supporting ABII. The candidate will provide technical support for ABII in the areas of defining test objectives and procedures, theoretical calculation and analysis related to performer progress, modeling objectives and techniques, and coordination of modeling and testing. Will also provide planning, coordination, and assistance with testing and/or demonstrations as required to support ABII objectives.