5+ years of experience in U.S. federal business development, capture management, government affairs, strategic partnerships, federal acquisition, or a related field, including demonstrated experience advancing and winning complex U.S. federal opportunities involving multiple stakeholders, long sales cycles, and non-obvious funding or contracting pathways. Direct experience supporting maritime, ocean, weather, environmental, autonomy, sensing, data, or decision-support programs, experience working at a fast-paced defense/fedtech company, and/or experience with the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army, SOCOM, NOAA, or other U.S. agencies with maritime, environmental, or national-security missions.