Senior UAS Test Asset Strategy Lead

CACI International Inc; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI International Inc in Alexandria, VA, is seeking a UAS Test Asset Management Lead to serve as the organization’s senior SME for centralized management, sourcing, allocation, and accountability of unmanned aircraft systems used to support testing and experimentation.

This role requires TS/SCI clearance, deep UAS knowledge, and the ability to translate test objectives into technical requirements while coordinating with multiple teams to allocate assets, forecast demand, and optimize inventory.

Qualifications

• TS/SCI clearance required.
• Expert knowledge of UAS technologies, capabilities, limitations, and operational employment.
• Ability to evaluate UAS and select appropriate platforms based on technical and operational requirements.
• Understanding of federal acquisition and contracting processes.

Responsibilities

• Central Requirements Intake: Consolidate UAS requirements across divisions, programs, test activities, ranges, demonstrations, exercises, and experimentation efforts.
• Validation Process: Establish a repeatable intake and validation process capturing purpose, characteristics, quantity, timing, configuration, and conditions.
• Enterprise Analysis: Analyze requirements to identify common needs, duplication, capability gaps, and consolidation opportunities.
• Demand Forecasting: Develop forecasts based on scheduled tests, demonstrations, exercises, training events, and operational requirements.
• Strategic Alignment: Maintain an enterprise requirements picture linking projected demand to inventory, procurement, funding, and priorities.
• Leadership Advising: Advise leadership when demand exceeds inventory or resources and recommend priorities.
• Inventory Framework: Develop and manage centralized UAS inventory and allocation framework.
• Enterprise Visibility: Maintain visibility of UAS quantities, types, configurations, location, availability, condition, ownership, and utilization.
• Operational Procedures: Establish procedures for requesting, prioritizing, issuing, transferring, recovering, repairing, replenishing, and retiring assets.
• Resource Allocation: Allocate limited resources among subordinate organizations based on mission priority and guidance.
• Dynamic Reallocation: Develop mechanisms for dynamically reallocating assets as priorities change.
• Threshold Monitoring: Identify inventory thresholds and recommend replenishment actions.
• Metrics Development: Develop metrics for utilization, expenditure, loss rates, availability, demand, lead times, and health.
• Common Operating Picture: Provide leadership with a picture of inventory, requirements, shortages, and status.
• UAS Technical Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as SME for UAS selection and employment in testing.
• Operational Translation: Translate test objectives into UAS requirements and recommend platforms.
• Sourcing Identification: Identify sources for UAS for tests, demonstrations, and training.
• Market Research: Conduct market research and assess available UAS against requirements.
• Technical Specifications: Develop specifications and requirements packages for acquisitions.
• Contracting Collaboration: Work with contracting to develop strategies, SOWs, performance requirements, and evaluation criteria.
• Source Selection: Provide technical expertise during source selection and vendor evaluation.
• Strategic Agreements: Identify opportunities for enterprise contracts to reduce procurement timelines.
• Lead-Time Tracking: Track lead times and recommend early procurement.
• Rapid Sourcing: Coordinate rapid sourcing for emergent requirements.
• Resource Management Integration: Align UAS requirements with available funding.
• Stakeholder Integration: Integrate stakeholders across organizations involved in acquiring and employing assets.
• Planning Participation: Participate in test planning to determine UAS requirements.
• Suitability Advice: Advise on feasibility and suitability of proposed platforms.
• Scenario Matching: Match capabilities to objectives and scenarios.
• Asset Assessment: Determine whether existing inventory can satisfy requirements or if new platform is needed.
• Representative Profiles: Develop profiles to evaluate systems under realistic conditions.
• Lessons Learned: Capture lessons from tests to inform future sourcing and inventory decisions.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

UAS knowledge

Requirements analysis

Resource management

Stakeholder integration

Job description

CACI International Inc in Alexandria, VA, is seeking a UAS Test Asset Management Lead to serve as the organization’s senior SME for centralized management, sourcing, allocation, and accountability of unmanned aircraft systems used to support testing and experimentation.

This role requires TS/SCI clearance, deep UAS knowledge, and the ability to translate test objectives into technical requirements while coordinating with multiple teams to allocate assets, forecast demand, and optimize inventory.