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Strategic Analysis Inc. seeks a Senior Science and Technology (S&T) Analyst with a background in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering to support our DoD client in major Technical Integration program areas, including Communications and Networks, Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Advanced Computing, Software, and Embedded Systems, and others.
This is an on-site position at the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. Due to position classification, limited telework (i.e., no more than 1-2 days per month) is expected.
As a Senior S&T Program Analyst, you will:
· Assist in development of and review inputs to strategy documents, research plans, and roadmaps for technical program. · Support and attend program reviews of DoD and non-DoD Services, Agencies, Communities of Interest. · Facilitate or lead deep dive cross-organizational teams into high-interest or game-changing technology areas. · Assist in review, draft, and coordination of Congressional Reports, GAO studies, policy guidance, and responses, and budget materials. · Provide coordination of technical program with DoD Interagency policy, such as the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program and Interagency Working Group (IWG) activities and tasks, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) working groups, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), and Federal Initiatives. · Provide support to international programs, US-UK Stocktake and other bilateral international project agreements, The Technical Cooperation Panel (TTCP) and Subgroups, the US-Canada Continental Surveillance S&T Oversight Group, AUKUS cooperative programs, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Research and Technology Organization (NATO RTO), to include preparation of Terms of Reference (ToR), Data, Information Exchange Agreements, and other program-related documents. · Develop budget, financial documents, such as Funding Plans, Sub-allocation letters, and standard operating procedures. · Provide assistance to the DoD Components in complying with OUSDR&E data calls and requirements. Interact with other Service, Component, contracting offices to facilitate open issues in contracting, technology, and budgeting, to include approval of work plans and public release documents. · Assist in preparing for meetings and workshops, to include coordination of calendars of senior DoD personnel, preparation of announcements, agendas, read-ahead documents, meeting minutes, and technical briefing materials, management of logistics, travel arrangements, foreign visit requests, and meeting-facility support, and preparation and administration of action items. · Develop and review information papers and reports, such as weekly reports, information papers, action memoranda, emails, and other documents. · Maintain broad situational awareness of R&D efforts involving the Technical Integration program areas. · Provide analysis of Congressional Special Interest Items, Combatant Command engagements, research funding of DoD Labs, SBIR, OSD, and Services S&T initiatives, Federal S&T policy, and Combatant Command engagements. · Assist in financial management support of the Directorate, to include development of unfunded requirement issue papers, preparation and review of RDT&E Budget Item Justification and PPBE documents, analysis of PPBE data and information, Quarterly Progress Reviews, and monitor year-end close-out actions. · Provide technical assessments and programmatic assistance from concept definition through initial capability demonstrations. · Provide technical and operational analysis linking emerging technologies and concepts to joint operational capabilities. · Prepare research and technical analyses to align assessments of new and emerging threats to state-of-the-art technologies that have potential to defeat those threats. · Provide analyses on technologies and community trends to identify key scientific developments and researchers, organizations, and develop forecasts of topics and trends. · Conduct technology intelligence and research on topics of interest.
QUALIFICATIONS
Clearance: An active TSSCI clearance is required.
Education: At minimum, a bachelors degree from an accredited college or university is required. Computer Science or Electrical Engineering degree is highly preferred. At the discretion of the Government, specialized experience may be substituted in lieu of specific educational requirements.
Experience:
· Ten (10) years of recent and relevant experience of which at least five (5) years is in program/project management or oversight of DoD S&T and Research Development and Acquisition (RD&A) efforts at the Headquarters level or equivalent. · Proficiency in technical research and an in-depth knowledge of relevant technology disciplines, such as radiofrequency and optical sensors, and communications, cyber autonomy modeling and simulation, AI, and decision support analytics/visualization. · Understanding of the PPBE process and terms. · Excellent communication skills, unstructured verbal interactions, briefings, and meeting moderation. · Ability to work independently with both junior and senior staff in a distributed environment while maintaining a strong commitment to deliverables and schedules.
Strategic Analysis Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to non-discrimination in employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religions, sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity, national origin, disability, physical or mental age 40 or older, protected veteran status, genetic information, including family medical history, or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy includes but is not limited to the following employment actions: recruitment, hiring, firing, promotion, demotion, compensation, fringe benefits, training, mentoring, and sponsorship programs.
Strategic Analysis, Inc. (SA), a small business is an industry-leading government professional services firm that excels in providing innovative solutions to the problems of today and tomorrow. The talents and experience that make up the SA team provide all of the skills, tools, and creative ideas necessary to address the technical, operational, programmatic, and policy aspects of national defense and homeland security issues.
Strategic Analysis began operations in Arlington, Virginia in May of 1986, quickly establishing a name for itself by winning competitive contracts from the Office of Naval Research, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to support technical studies and key national security science and technology (S&T) programs. Years later, Strategic Analysis has grown with offices in Arlington, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Colorado Springs, Colorado. SA's core capabilities have also greatly expanded and diversified as new demands have been placed on the professional services industry and as the world environment has changed. SA's list of clients has grown substantially over the last twenty years, and yet the core values of providing the highest quality support to our customers, hiring and building relationships with good people to do great things, a focus on SA as an "extended family," and working to build a better community for everyone remain the same as they were twenty years ago.