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Serve as a subject matter expert and SPO representative to coordinate the development and deployment of space protection capabilities. Collaborate with stakeholders and contractors to manage requirements verification, mission validation, and ground system integration.
Requires a Bachelor's degree with 9+ years of experience (or higher degree with corresponding experience) and an active TS/SCI clearance with Poly. Must have expertise in government systems engineering and experience with space or ground software systems.
SAIC is seeking a Space Protection Mission Engineer to join the Air Force, Space and Intelligence Business Group providing systems engineering and technical advisory services to a rapidly expanding Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer. The customer is developing the next generation of space and ground systems, architectures, and hardware and software solutions.
The Space Protection Mission Engineer will serve as the subject matter expert (SME) and System Program Office (SPO) representative coordinating with the development contractor and stakeholders (including end user operators) for deployment of new protection capabilities into space operations. The Space Protection Mission Engineer collaborates within a team of mission-related SMEs to coordinate system development, requirements verification testing (and sell-off), identification of discrepancies, and mission validation testing.
The Space Protection Mission Engineer responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
• Coordinate with external SPOs to develop a common space protection concept of operations that identifies capability requirements and required interfaces to enable satisfaction of their unique protection needs, while simultaneously liaising, as required, to build relationships and manage expectations.
• Advocate for enterprise capability needs at developer working groups, SPO’s internal decision forums, and other technical meetings to facilitate achieving capability delivery commitments.
• Shape strategy recommendations to include engineering and acquisition trades that meet enterprise’s demand for space protection capabilities within the program’s development priorities and budget profile.
• Serves as a SPO technical expert providing oversight for software development, implementation, and deployment of ground processing system capabilities that are integrated with the NRO space enterprise.
• Collaborate with other SMEs to develop technical plans and documentation, advise the customer on technical progress of the acquisition, and support the integration of ground processing systems with space systems.
• Produce technical materials depicting SPO’s development progress in support of stakeholder equities in preparation for stakeholder’s NRO oversight and/or other readiness events, as required.
• Support the Contracting Officer Technical Representative(s) and developers to refine requirements, designs, and testing capabilities to meet user needs.
Advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world.
SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our portfolio of offerings integrates emerging technology into mission critical operations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has approximately 23,000 employees and annual revenues of about $7.3 billion.
Offices: 12010 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190, US
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