Senior Defense Industrial Base Economist

ACT1 Federal; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

Life Insurance & AD&D

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

FSAs

HSA

401K with match

PTO

Holidays

Military Leave

Education & Development

Voluntary Insurance & Identity Protect

Job summary

ACT1 Federal is seeking a Senior Defense Industrial Base Economist to analyze industrial base and fifth shipyard decisions, focusing on maritime infrastructure, cost estimation, labor markets, and readiness. The role entails independent studies, forecasting, and presenting findings to senior leadership.

Responsibilities include evaluating shipyard options, analyzing costs, and coordinating with stakeholders across government and industry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in economics, applied economics, public policy, statistics, or related field.
• 12+ years of economics, defense or industrial base analysis, corporate finance, supply chain risk, operations research, or related field.
• Demonstrated application of microeconomics, industrial organization, quantitative methods, and corporate financial analysis to complex policy, acquisition, production, industry, or national security questions.
• Experience building models, resolving incomplete or conflicting data, communicating uncertainty, and briefing senior executives or comparable leaders.
• Active Top Secret Clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Maritime Infrastructure and Shipyard Analysis: evaluate potential shipyard sites, compare regions based on workforce, industrial ecosystem, and related factors.
• Estimate capital, operating, lifecycle costs, schedules, ramp-up, and uncertainty for various approaches.
• Assess labor markets, suppliers, construction capacity, ports, utilities, and transportation.
• Evaluate effects on fleet maintenance, workload balance, and readiness under different scenarios.
• Design studies of defense industrial base capacity and resilience using economic methods.
• Prepare and present executive briefings, issue papers, and decision memoranda; defend methods and conclusions.

Skills

Economics

Industrial Base Analysis

Quantitative Methods

Corporate Finance

Executive Briefings

Top Secret Clearance

Model Building

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in economics

Job description

Arlington, VA

Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time

Travel Required: N/A

Shift: Day

Remote Type: In-Office

Clearance required: Top Secret required

***THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD***

Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee-owned company. We’ve served the Department of War (DoW) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us!

Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Defense Industrial Base Economist to provide industrial, labor market, capacity, incentive, and economic impact analyses in support of industrial base and fifth shipyard decisions.

Responsibilities:

Maritime Infrastructure and Shipyard Analysis:

• Support impartial evaluation of a potential fifth public naval shipyard and other maritime alternatives without presuming a site or delivery approach. Compare regions and sites based on workforce, industrial ecosystem, transportation, utilities, waterfront and dry-dock feasibility, environmental and security constraints, housing, and community capacity.
• Estimate capital, operating, and lifecycle costs; schedules; ramp-up; and uncertainty for new construction, expansion, modernization, public-private partnering, and other feasible approaches.
• Assess labor markets, suppliers, construction capacity, ports, utilities, transportation, escalation, appropriations profiles, acquisition models, and competition with existing Navy and commercial projects for scarce labor and materials.
• Evaluate effects on fleet maintenance capacity, workload balance, throughput, schedule performance, surge capability, transit time, and fleet readiness under alternative demand and geopolitical scenarios.
• Design independent studies of defense industrial base capacity, resilience, affordability, competition, responsiveness, and long-term viability using microeconomics, industrial organization, econometrics, corporate finance, forecasting, input-output, network, and scenario methods.
• Prepare and present executive briefings, issue papers, decision memoranda, read-aheads, sector studies, dashboards, maps, and rapid-response analyses; defend methods and conclusions before technical and nontechnical audiences.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, applied economics, public policy, statistics, or related field
• 12+ years’ experience in economics, defense or industrial base analysis, corporate finance, supply chain risk, operations research, or a related field.
• Demonstrated application of microeconomics, industrial organization, quantitative methods, and corporate financial analysis to complex policy, acquisition, production, industry, or national security questions.
• Experience building models, resolving incomplete or conflicting data, communicating uncertainty, and briefing senior executives, flag/general officers, senior civilians, or comparable leaders.
• Active Top Secret Clearance required.
• ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Company Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Company Paid Short-Term Disability
• Voluntary Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401K with employer match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Military Leave
• Education, Training & Professional Development
• Voluntary Accidental Injury/Critical Illness/Hospital Care
• Voluntary Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, and Identity Protection

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.

• If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you’ll periodically work from a ACT1 Federal or client site facility.
• If this position is listed as onsite, you’ll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.

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