Pentagon Mission Integrator

SAIC; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC seeks a Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) Mission Integrator to support the NRO's Mission Integration Directorate's Warfighter Capabilities Office at the Pentagon. You will engage Joint Staff and senior Warfighters to promote NRO equities and coordinate with the Pentagon and NRO staff.

The role covers enterprise engineering, architecture, and policy discussions with national and tactical communities, with regular visits to NRO HQ and NCR facilities to enable collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM or related field with 9+ years of experience; advanced degrees offset experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a Polygraph.
• Experience with National Intelligence Space systems and Intelligence disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Support the NRO MID as the technical enterprise mission integrators under WCO.
• Integrate portfolio management, architecture, data interoperability, and cross-program strategies for enterprise alignment.
• Participate in architecture development forums and Joint Staff collaboration efforts.
• Engage with Joint Staff, Warfighters, and executives to advocate for NRO equities and policy influence.
• Draft, edit, and deliver reports and briefs; track actions for executives.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

MBSE

Systems engineering

Space systems knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM/related field

Master's degree in technology/engineering

PhD in related field

Tools

ChatSurfer

Thresher

JEMA

Job description

Description

Join a winning team! Be part of a dynamic group committed to delivering excellence and quality for the NRO's Mission Integration Directorate (MID) Warfighter Capability Office. SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) Mission Integrator with a background in the IC and DoD to support the NRO's Mission Integration Directorate's (MID) Warfighter Capabilities Office (WCO) at the Pentagon. This role focuses on customer outreach activities, primarily engaging with Joint Staff and Warfighters senior personnel and subordinate offices from NRO office located within the Pentagon. Make an impact by enhancing our nation's security and warfighting capabilities through effective outreach that promotes NRO's systems, tools and capabilities.

Job Responsibilities

• Support the NRO and MID as the technical enterprise mission integrators under the NRO Warfighter Capability Office (WCO). This role is essential to ensuring the technical awareness, continuity, and impact with the Joint Staff and Service Chiefs at the Pentagon to advocate for NRO equities, inform policy discussions, and coordinate between the Pentagon and NRO staffs.


• Integrate areas such as portfolio management, mission threads, architecture, national-tactical data interoperability, cross-program strategies, synchronized deliverables, strategic messaging, and operational themes to facilitate enterprise integration and promote innovation across NRO missions.


• Participate in architectural forums and architecture development efforts, Joint Staff and Service collaboration teams, special topic studies, NRO knowledge management, NRO D & O technical forums and working groups, and Distinguished Visitor events.


• Support the Warfighting Capabilities Office Joint Staff Team to engage with the Joint Force Requirements Process and stay abreast of Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) priorities, policy discussions, JROC Memo creation and review, and Consolidated Program Management Review (CPMR) activities. Ensure MID HQ leadership is aware of all activities pertaining to NRO equities and areas where the NRO can influence policies and plans for mission success.


• Support multiple areas, including systems, mission, and enterprise engineering, analytic support, technical analysis, user requirement management/development, architecture, and customer outreach and support.


• Support engagement with national and tactical communities to collaboratively design, document, validate, and deliver architectures, space systems, and innovative ground capabilities in support of the national space architecture.


• Collaborate with NRO Directorates and Offices to improve user access and discovery of content and timeliness of intelligence via information sharing and multi-INT processing enhancements.


• Draft, edit, and write reports, correspondence, and briefs.


• Keep track of important actions and milestones for executives.


• The primary place of performance is the NRO SCIF at the Pentagon. However, visits to NRO HQ and mission partner facilities in the NCR are expected on a regular basis to enable better collaboration and interoperability.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM), Business, or a related field and 9 years of experience, Masters degree and 7 years of experience, PhD and 4 years of experience. Alternatively, demonstrate an additional 4 years of related IC and DoD intelligence systems experience per level if no bachelor's degree is held.


• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a Polygraph


• Experience with National Intelligence Space systems and Intelligence disciplines

Desired

• Master's or PhD in technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field


• Domain knowledge and expertise in systems engineering of interrelated systems


• Experience working on space and ground programs from Enterprise Capabilities, and architecture-definition documentation through requirements derivation and allocation, performance metric generation and assessment, test case development, and requirement closure tracing


• Professional certifications in Systems or Digital Engineering, Program Management, Architecture (such as DAWIA, INCOSE, MBSE such as OCSMP SysML Model Builder, Agile, or PMP)


• Domain knowledge and expertise in multiple interrelated space and satellite ground systems


• Operational familiarity with NRO Tools (ChatSurfer, Thresher, JEMA, etc), or NRO collection data or Mission Partner Intelligence Data


• Understanding of how system requirements, design, analysis, verification, and validation activities are enabled by MBSE across the digital thread (the engineering lifecycle).

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2617454

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