Engineer, Senior (AQR, Office of the Deputy Asst. Secretary for Science, Technology and Engineering) - TS/SCI
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- District of Columbia
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Studying, analyzing, and providing recommendations on requirements, acquisition strategies, program documentation, program phase transition plans, supplemental information, and program execution.
- Providing impartial assessments of programs approaching milestone decisions and of prime Contractor technical and operational issues.
- Researching and providing technical analysis for the preparation of programmatic documentation and responses to Congressional, DoD, Air Force Secretariat, and/or Air Staff.
- Providing engineering assessments of Technical Transition activities to include mission engineering, early systems engineering, experimentation, and prototyping activities.
- Researching and analyzing program trends, identifying issues, and recommending solutions.
- Performing technical studies on individual weapon systems, weapon system integration and capability areas.
- Analyzing weapon systems architecture and integration and identify issues.
- Identifying operational deficiencies and other key issues, conducting research to develop alternatives, and providing recommendations and support for resolution.
- Performing weapon system/technology/cost trade-off studies.
- Reviewing and assessing technical, operational, and management concepts, documents, and specifications.
- Assessing the capability of weapon system design alternatives to provide the required capability.
- Providing expertise on Model Based Systems Engineering implementation and policy.
- Assessing policy requirements and procedures governing Air Force acquisition engineering and technical services.
- Assessing operating system end of life support analysis and recommending strategies to address impact on weapons.
- Making ties between technology gaps and S&T efforts.
- Providing advice for use of S&T efforts to future force.
- Communicating technical ideas for non-technical people to be able to understand.
- Proficiency in computer-based communication/office IT tools and ability to learn software packages used by the DAF.
- Handles confidential and classified (Secret/TS-SCI) information, correspondence, and communications.
- Any other tasks closely associated with the performance of duties list above and as coordinated with the COR.