UAS Test Asset Management 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

Job Title: UAS Test Asset Management Lead

Job Category: Intelligence

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 50%

Type of Travel: Continental US

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The Opportunity

As a CACI UAS Test Asset Management Lead supporting JIATF 401, you will serve as the organization’s senior subject matter expert (SME) and enterprise integrator for the centralized management, sourcing, allocation, and accountability of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and related test assets used to support science and technology (S&T), experimentation, testing, training, operational assessment, and capability development.

Responsibilities

• Central Requirements Intake: Serves as the central point for consolidating UAS requirements across organizational divisions, programs, test activities, ranges, demonstrations, exercises, and experimentation efforts.
• Validation Process: Establishes a repeatable requirements intake and validation process that captures the purpose, technical characteristics, quantity, timing, configuration, and operational conditions associated with each requirement.
• Enterprise Analysis: Analyzes requirements across the enterprise to identify common needs, competing demands, duplication, capability gaps, and opportunities to consolidate purchases.
• Demand Forecasting: Develops demand forecasts based on scheduled tests, demonstrations, experimentation, training events, and anticipated operational requirements.
• Strategic Alignment: Maintains an enterprise requirements picture linking projected UAS demand to available inventory, procurement actions, funding, and organizational priorities.
• Leadership Advising: Advises leadership when demand exceeds available inventory or resources and recommends allocation or procurement priorities.
• Inventory Framework: Develops and manages the organization’s centralized UAS inventory and allocation framework.
• Enterprise Visibility: Maintains enterprise visibility of UAS quantities, types, configurations, location, availability, condition, ownership, and planned utilization.
• Operational Procedures: Establishes procedures for requesting, prioritizing, issuing, transferring, recovering, repairing, replenishing, and retiring UAS assets.
• Resource Allocation: Allocates limited or high-demand UAS resources among subordinate organizations and activities based on mission priority, test objectives, availability, cost, and leadership guidance.
• Dynamic Reallocation: Develops mechanisms for dynamically reallocating assets as operational and test priorities change.
• Threshold Monitoring: Identifies inventory thresholds and recommends replenishment actions before shortages affect scheduled activities.
• Metrics Development: Develops metrics for utilization, expenditure, loss rates, availability, demand, procurement lead times, and inventory health.
• Common Operating Picture: Provides leadership with a common operating picture of UAS inventory, requirements, projected shortages, and acquisition status.
• UAS Technical Subject Matter Expertise: Serves as the organization’s principal SME for UAS selection and employment in support of testing and experimentation. Maintains current knowledge of a broad range of UAS technologies and configurations
• Operational Translation: Translates test objectives into technical UAS requirements and recommends the platform or combination of platforms best suited to replicate the required operational condition.
• Sourcing Identification: Identifies appropriate sources for UAS required for tests, demonstrations, experiments, training events, and operational assessments.
• Market Research: Conducts technical market research and assesses commercially available and other accessible UAS against organizational requirements.
• Technical Specifications: Develops technical specifications and requirements packages necessary to support acquisition actions.
• Contracting Collaboration: Works with contracting professionals to develop acquisition strategies, statements of work, performance requirements, technical evaluation criteria, and other acquisition documentation.
• Source Selection: Provides technical expertise during source selection and vendor evaluation activities, as appropriate.
• Strategic Agreements: Identifies opportunities for enterprise contracts, IDIQs, BPAs, or other acquisition mechanisms that reduce procurement timelines for recurring UAS requirements.
• Lead-Time Tracking: Tracks acquisition lead times and recommends advance procurement when future demand indicates potential inventory shortfalls.
• Rapid Sourcing: Coordinates rapid sourcing actions when emerging test or operational requirements cannot be satisfied through existing inventory.
• Resource Management Integration: Works closely with the organization’s Resource Management (RM) team to align UAS requirements with available funding and organizational priorities.
• Stakeholder Integration: Functions as the integrator among organizations involved in acquiring, managing, and employing UAS assets.
• Planning Participation: Participates in test and experimentation planning to understand objectives and determine appropriate UAS requirements.
• Suitability Advice: Advises test planners on the feasibility and suitability of proposed UAS platforms.
• Scenario Matching: Matches UAS capabilities to specific test objectives and operational scenarios.
• Asset Assessment: Works with technical and operational teams to determine whether existing inventory can satisfy a requirement or whether a new platform must be sourced.
• Representative Profiles: Supports development of representative UAS profiles needed to evaluate systems under realistic operational conditions.
• Lessons Learned: Captures lessons from test events regarding UAS performance and incorporates those findings into future sourcing and inventory decisions.

Qualifications

Required:

• TS/SCI
• Expert knowledge of UAS technologies, capabilities, limitations, and operational employment.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate UAS and select appropriate platforms based on technical and operational requirements; strong knowledge of UAS markets, manufacturers, suppliers, and emerging technologies.
• Deep understanding of test and evaluation, experimentation, operational assessment, or threat-replication activities.
• Knowledge of federal acquisition and contracting processes sufficient to translate technical requirements into executable acquisition actions.
• Understanding of resource management, budgeting, and requirements prioritization.
• Ability to manage competing requirements for scarce resources and recommend allocation priorities.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to develop enterprise inventory, demand, and utilization metrics.
• Ability to integrate technical, operational, acquisition, contracting, logistics, and resource-management stakeholders.

What You Can Expect

A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.

An environment of trust.

CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.

A focus on continuous growth.

Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy.

Pay Range

There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

The Proposed Salary Range For This Position Is

$94,400 - $198,200

CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.