Technical R&D Site Lead with Security Clearance

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Job description

Check out this NEW Opportunity with Axient! Axient is seeking a Technical R&D Site Lead in support of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E for a joint initiative chartered with the Services to analyze the hardest military challenges facing the U.S. and our Allies; and to develop experiments to provide future warfighting architectures to address these challenges through: • Change the current warfighting paradigm of reliance on a Service-specific and platform centric force into one that operates as a disaggregated kill web that is able to execute rapidly composable, joint, and all domain kill chains.
• Exploit both existing and emerging technologies across the Services, to address known capability gaps, opportunities, and threats. • Conducting mission-centric, multi-Service and multi-domain analyses, modeling and simulation (M&S), and experimentation to inform research and development (R&D), and program of record recommendations. A current TS/SCI clearance is required. What you will do The successful candidates will: • Recognize, identify, explore, and ensure the development, integration, and funding of new technology and capabilities to maintain U.S. technological superiority. • Takes a unified, missions-level view across the entire Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise to analyze joint missions and identify crosscutting technology gaps critical to military readiness. • Maintain a focus on the innovative application of technology • Work with a robust network of transition partners within and external to the DoD to mitigate gaps through accelerated prototyping, demonstration, and fielding technologies • Transition relevant programs, processes and technologies from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Skills you will need Required Qualifications: Required: BS in any discipline with management training courses
Preferred: MS in any discipline with management training courses
Clearance: TS/SCI A minimum of 15 years of experience in a supervisory capacity in planning, developing, and executing major research, engineering, and development efforts for defense organizations.
A minimum of 15 years of experience in establishing strong working relationships within environments substantially similar to OUSD(R&E); within the federal government; with multifaceted research and engineering PMs, staff, and organization leadership.
Location: National Capital Region

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