SPA’s Sea Land Air (SLA) Division supports a diverse portfolio of national security government clients, including the Undersea Enterprise, the Navy Surface Community, the Navy MPTE Enterprise, the Air Force, Army, DoD Agencies, DARPA, international clients including the Canadian Navy and Australian Defense Force.  Our primary objective is to provide timely, objective and analytic assessments that integrate the policy, operational, technical, programmatic and acquisition aspects of our clients’ challenges. Leveraging both in-domain and cross-domain expertise to maximize our clients’ success, SLA Division acts as trusted agents to senior decision-makers and key leaders and excels at providing data driven analytic insights, systems engineering, strategies and plans that address current and emerging challenges to national security.

The AUKUS, Submarines, and Industrial Base Group (ASIG), within the Sea, Land, Air Division, provides timely, objective, analytic assessments that integrate technical, operational, programmatic, policy and business analysis to NAVSEA Team Submarine program offices and key stakeholders surrounding submarine platform construction.  Team Submarine unifies submarine platform procurement activities, which includes the Columbia-class SSBN program (a Major Defense Acquisition Program and the Navy’s top acquisition priority), the Virginia-class SSN program and the new SSN-X program (developing the next generation attack submarine), to bring improved capabilities to our undersea forces.  Analysts and Engineers supporting Team Submarine will continue SPA’s decades of support to the SSBN force, as well as supporting oversight of cutting-edge attack submarine construction, assisting in developing the design requirements for the SSN platform of the future, and helping plan and execute new and innovative strategies to strengthen the critical submarine shipbuilding industrial base. These are high-profile, major acquisition and manufacturing programs of significant importance to the future capabilities of the US Navy in an era of renewed strategic competition.

The AUKUS COMSUBFOR team within ASIG is charged with delivering high-quality, timely tracking, analysis and policy solutions to a variety of challenging problems in the man/train/equip (raise/train/sustain) space.  We work in a dynamic environment with new information and bureaucratic realities often forcing adjustments in approach and priorities.  Current chartered lines of effort include workforce modeling and future workforce development, policy development, training strategy implementation, knowledge transfer, and operational process development.#MC

Your role will be to 1) Develop expertise in assigned areas through completion of assigned training, written research, and interviews with subject matter experts, 2) Maintain status, drive progress and provide frequent updates on all assigned tasks, 3) Communicate clearly and concisely across a wide range of products including e-mail, after-action reports, policy or other structured papers, data analytics, and flag-level briefings, 4) Organize and support virtual and in-person meetings where much of our difficult trilateral coordination is accomplished, 5) Exercise project leadership, 6) Design, plan, organize deliverables, and ensure that strategic intent of all assigned projects is met, 7) Motivate, mentor and lead purpose-built teams across functional, organization and international boundaries to accomplish objectives, and 8) Build new relationships as necessary. 

1. Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or 5+ years’ experience with submarine operations and training 

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with senior leaders

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail

• Demonstrated ability in communicating complex topics in written form (writing sample required)

• Proficiency with Microsoft Power Point, Word, and Excel  

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Type Commander or other Navy staff highly preferred

• Experience working with international partners