Mission Analyst

Kittyhawktech; King George (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Flexible work environment

Job summary

A leading defense technology company is seeking a Mission Analyst to support essential defense initiatives in King George, Virginia. The role entails translating requirements into actionable analysis, evaluating system data, and collaborating on scenarios for warfare centers. Candidates need a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or Math, and proficiency in analysis tools and programming languages. This position offers competitive salary, health benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret DoD clearance.
• Requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Experience with analysis tools and programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Translate sponsor requirements into analysis plans.
• Evaluate system data and develop representations.
• Collaborate with different teams to develop scenarios.
• Ensure analysis results are documented.
• Analyze results of Monte Carlo runs.

Skills

Analysis techniques

Statistics

MATLAB

Python

R

Communications

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science, or Math

Tools

M&S tools

AFSIM

JTLS-GO

MAST

FACTS

Job description

Kitty Hawk Technologies, a growing service and technology innovator, is seeking talented and motivated professionals to deliver lean and effective solutions to our government partners. We have an immediate opening for a Mission Analyst to join our team. This position will provide an opportunity to develop the innovative technology that supports some of our nation’s most important defense initiatives. Kitty Hawk employees work closely with our customers to develop solutions that support national engineering/analysis and security missions, and the ideal candidate will support our team in providing program support to the Department of Defense (DoD). In addition to receiving a competitive salary and health benefits, the Mission Analyst will join a motivated, talented, and technically accomplished team. The employee will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded.

Candidates must be results oriented and have the ability to work in a well-organized, logical and systematic manner. They will set clear objectives, monitor progress, take corrective action and control performance levels to maintain high internal customer satisfaction. They will possess deep insight into customer requirements and will maintain the ability to ethically influence those requirements. They will be able to clearly define and clearly articulate compelling solutions and will require an ability to quickly assimilate and apply complex technical information.

Kitty Hawk Technologies is currently seeking a Mission Analyst in support of DoW engineering services to work in the Dahlgren, Virginia, area.

Key Responsibilities

• Translates sponsor requirements and questions into actionable analysis plans to evaluate blue system, platform, and force performance in the context of specific missions
• Evaluates system technical data to develop blue and red system and platform representations in M&S tools with well defined traceability to authoritative sources of truth (ASOT)
• Collaborates across warfare centers, engineering teams, and functional disciplines to develop realistic scenarios including blue and red force laydowns
• Supports the V&V of agents and scenarios to ensure analysis results have documented pedigree
• Develops Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Analyzes results of Monte Carlo runs to assess system, platform, or force performance
• Coordinated with Mission Engineers to develop operational, acquisition, or engineering recommendations based on analysis results.
• Develops analysis reports and briefs results and recommendations to Dahlgren, Program Office, and/or Fleet personnel.

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret DoD clearance is necessary – U.S. Citizenship is required
• Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering, Science, or Math field
• Experience with analysis techniques and statistics.
• Experience with analysis tools (i.e. MATLAB) or programming/scripting languages (i.e. Python, R, etc.)
• Ability to develop complex agents and scenarios in M&S tools
• Ability to brief analysis results to sponsors and engineering staffs

Desired Qualifications

• Two to five years of experience in analysis applied to Navy/Joint warfighting systems
• Experience with mission-level, campaign-level, or wargaming modeling & simulation (M&S) tools (i.e. AFSIM, JTLS-GO, MAST, FACTS)
• Knowledge of Naval Surface Warfare or Missile Defense Agency programs and architectures
• Experience with combat systems engineering activities
• Expertise with MATLAB
• Active TS/SCI or active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• Strong written and oral communication skills, the ability and willingness to multi-task, and capable of professionally addressing client questions and issues

Travel

• Some limited travel may be required to support this position

If you have any questions, please reach out to [e-mail].