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The Data Scientist SME will provide Advisory and Assistance Support (A&AS) to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Chemical and Biological Technologies Department, Digital Battlespace Management Division (RD-CBI). Apply subject matter expertise and support to the Government for science and technology (S&T) projects aimed at developing modeling and simulation tools for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) support. The candidate will support management of technical projects that focus on developing algorithm tools which will improve understanding of and decisions in CB contested environments. Apply a strong expertise in analyzing, interpreting, and applying predictive modeling tools to advise and assist with the development/evaluation of Statements of Work (SOW) for CB...

The candidate will provide subject matter expertise in safeguarding high-value information. Implement policies, procedures, standards, training, and methods for identifying and protecting agency classified/sensitive information from unauthorized disclosure. Coordinate with offices, both internal and external, to protect the equities of stakeholders whose information is involved in the agency’s day-to-day operations. Review classification guidance generated for new or ongoing programs to ensure that specific and correct guidance is available to customers. Ensure even application of standards by reviewing information and documents scheduled for release outside the agency and to various customers. Coordinate with scientific, technical, and other subject-matter specialists to assess the...

The Program Analyst will serve as strategic advisor and trusted agent for a high-profile client organization, focusing on rigorous efforts to strengthen the submarine manufacturing industrial base surrounding developing AUKUS efforts. The Program Analyst will apply a strong familiarity with defense manufacturing and undersea warfare systems to help identify, develop, and execute new strategies and initiatives to support submarine industrial base and supply chain development. In this role, you will navigate complex stakeholder relationships across government and private industry, manage standup and execution of new initiatives, perform detailed analysis of industrial base and supply chain for undersea warfare systems, and regularly communicate progress and challenges through briefs,...

Apply best practices to support financial plans and policies, accounting practices, and procedures. Create new program forecasts and EACs. Manage financial structure/revenue setup for and attend internal project kick-off meetings. Develop and Maintain customer financial reports and deliverables. Assist with cash flow by approving expenses, ensuring invoices are submitted to clients in a timely manner, and analyzing the DSO to look for ways to improve processes and procedures. Work with the Division Business Manager to track and report cost, revenue, and profits, as well as conducting monthly variance analysis on actuals. Participate in the development and maintenance of an annual waterfall to include active programs and pipeline opportunities. Manage and monitor subcontractor and...

The DARPA DIRO Front Office Sr. Executive Assistant (EA) will provide support to the Director on a daily basis. Will work closely with the DIRO Front Office to ensure timely, proactive, and comprehensive administrative support to leadership. Will be expected to handle sensitive information while exercising professionalism and discretion. The dynamic nature of this role requires that the successful candidate be a self-starter, taking the initiative whenever possible and thinking ahead of what the mission needs are--all while displaying elite multi-project tracking and execution ability along with exemplary time management skills. Will apply professional demeanor across internal and external stakeholders. Cultivate productive working relationships across the Agency. Apply energetic approach...

The Program Analyst will support the Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs’ Nuclear Weapons Surety Division by overseeing key aspects of program development and sustainment.  The Analyst will assist with Branch-level alignment to validate existing programs and to develop new capabilities in response to emerging threats.  The Analyst will integrate Command, adjacent branch, and external stakeholder priorities. They will foster relationships while working directly with a broad variety of government and industry organizations to understand both programmatic and operational risk. They will translate the client’s intent into staff-actions, clearly defining roles and responsibilities.  Additionally, as the APM, the Analyst will assist in supervising a team of ~3 personnel, providing leadership with...

In this role, you will be an integral member of our corporate development function and support the execution of our acquisition strategy, deal analysis, financial modeling, transaction coordination, and integration planning. Your responsibilities will span all aspects of the corporate development process as well as collaboration with almost every area of the business with the goal of supporting the achievement of our overall Company strategy. Your specific duties will include:- Serving as part of the SPAs corporate development function- Aiding in maintaining the pipeline of acquisition targets to include sole-sourced prospects and companies represented by investment banks- Supporting analysis, due diligence, transaction structuring, deal negotiation and funding the transaction,...

SPA seeks a passionate and dedicated Action Officer to engage with the research and development community to organize meetings, develop briefings to technical and non-technical audiences, and interact with multiple internal and external personnel with excellent communication, project management, and organizational skills on a daily basis. The candidate's primary function will be in direct support of the Office Director and Deputy Director, and will work closely with the Director’s Office (DIRO) Front Office Lead, Briefing Coordinators, and administrative staff to ensure comprehensive and seamless technical and administrative support to DIRO leadership. More specific tasks may include facilitating the development and implementation of Project Agreements/Arrangements (PA) and other...

SPA is seeking a dedicated junior or mid-level analyst with an active DoD Secret clearance to provide T&E Engineering Support Services (ESS) to the US Navy. Responsibilities include assisting the PEO IWS client with T&E planning, execution, analysis, and reporting as well as supporting the portfolio lifecycle through test, integration, and delivery of hardware/software. For this critical work, we are looking for an experienced analyst to prepare and/or review technical and programmatic T&E documentation (e.g. T&E planning and strategies, T&E Master Plans, Test Plans, Test Procedures, Test Reports, Trouble Reports, Requirements Traceability Matrixes, Technical Review Plans and Summary Reports), develop formal correspondence and work with DoD field activities, Integrated Product Teams,...

The Facility Security Officer will be responsibe for all aspects of security support for SPA employees and facilities to include personnel clearances, visit requests, meeting support, physical access, local procedures, training, insider threat program management and inspections. Close coordination with the Human Resources, Contracts and Information Technology Departments will be critical to your success. Tasking will include the establishment of a new Facility Clearance for an existing SPA facility and the integration of new teams into SPA as the company grows. 

The Space & Intelligence Division supports customers across DoD Space and the Intelligence Community ranging from USSF, OSD SCO, and other DoD entities, and IC organizations such as the NRO, NGA, NSA, and others.  We conduct systems engineering (including all aspects of digital engineering, modeling, simulation, and analysis, architecture evaluation, requirements analysis, test and evaluation, and transition to operations), acquisition, program management, financial management, and related support to development, integration, and operations of systems for remote sensing, communications, position navigation, and timing, GEOINT, SIGINT, launch, and other critical space/intel mission areas.  Division organizations operate in multiple locations including Northern Virginia, Colorado Springs,...

The intern will serve as a technical/scientific resource on projects, providing R&D analysis to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Research and Development Chemical Biological Directorate (RD-CBS Division). Provide Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) to the client applying basic and advanced scientific principles, with a focus on emerging biotechnology sector including horizon scanning for gene editing technologies, lipid nanoparticles, viral pathogens of concern, gene editing, CRISPR, synthetic bio, biotechnologies, toxins, acetylcholinesterase (AChE) reactivator chemistry, Organophosphate (OP) agents including Fourth Generation Agents (FGAs), Pharmaceutical Based Agents (PBAs), and other emerging chemical threat agents. Work on advanced, complex technical projects or business...

Primary Responsibilities for Systems Operations (SysOps):- Have appropriate background knowledge of and experience with ICD 503 Security RMF Framework.- Have the ability and experience to manage and supervise a team of Network Analysts and System Administrators. This includes the ability to organize projects, develop project schedules and milestones and create reports and documents for customer and higher management.- Create, publish, support implementation, utilize and enforce a Network Support Services (NSS) Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) that outlines MID policies and procedures for network operations and maintenance, and establishes a common view of methods used to support the customer’s environment.- Monitor and respond to customer requests received via the NSS central...

The successful candidate will join a cross-functional team of interdisciplinary technical SMEs supporting DTRA program managers, performers, and customers in the development, demonstration, and transition of advantageous capabilities. Will support systems development, assessment, and refinement from concept formulation through implementation, operation, and disposal. Employ interdisciplinary techniques to define and evaluate systems functionality including operational concepts, requirements definition, system architecture definition and development, analysis of alternatives, modeling and simulation, element integration, predictive measures, technical evaluation, detailed design and production, risk assessment, cost analysis, test and evaluation, and process improvement. Identify potential...

The Program Manager (PM) serves as the primary leadership point of contact for Contractor support allocated to the contract, directs hiring and assignment of contract personnel, coordinates subcontractor partnerships, oversees the accomplishment of the tasks supporting the agency CIO and Director of Communications Systems, and ensures the delivery of the associated CDRLs. You will work closely and substantially with program Contracting Officer’s Technical Representatives (COTRs) and ensure program objectives are achieved within stringent costs, schedule, and technical performance requirements. You will be required to utilize tools for tracking budgets, spend plans, funding obligation and execution, and other programmatic needs. Using these tools, you will coordinate with stakeholders as...

The candidate will support the development and execution of various efforts within Strategic Systems Programs’ Deterrence Technology Branch.  The candidate is expected to perform work on various National Security topics in support of a range of defense nuclear enterprise and Navy customers.  The candidate will be responsible for advising on the development and execution of complex analytical studies, developing or reviewing papers that analyze or recommend positions to take on political issues, developing or reviewing briefing materials, and advising the development of materials necessary for policy execution.    The candidate should be able to review and analyze nuclear strategy and guidance documents and provide recommendations to leadership on issues regarding alignment with national...

The successful candidate will lead the Digital Engineering projects, tasks, and products in support of the SLCM-N development program, supporting the systems engineering working groups throughout the system development process.  Tasks include but are not limited to:- Develop the Digital Engineering strategy for the SLCM-N program as a part of the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP).- Lead a group of modelers to develop, coordinate, manage, review, and maintain the system descriptive model.- Develop the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) approach to support design and development, trade studies and analysis, system performance models, logistics and inventory models, threat evaluation, and testing events.- Support the integration of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) with T&E capabilities...

Specific responsibilities include supporting HQ US Space Operations Command (SpOC)/S2Z as a contract staff member responsible for assisting the headquarters’ Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution activities and other DoD or IC processes of the Space Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) enterprise through developmental engineering, architectural development, systems engineering, intelligence, and operational analysis. Scopes, designs, integrates, and operationalize existing and new units/capabilities across Space ISR Deltas. Provide analytic support to capabilities-based assessments (CBA), analysis of alternatives (AoA), technology research, material solutions analysis, program management, engineering studies, architecture development, and requirements definition...

The Program Analyst will provide support to the NAVSEA AUKUS program, focusing on program support to undersea platform acquisition. Responsibilities will include strategic planning and coordination of program wide activities; supporting development of integrated plans, supporting fleet integration with AUKUS program, and coordinating integrated schedule and risk analysis.  This position is located in Alexandria, VA with some opportunity to travel to partner and industry stakeholder locations.

Your role as Program Administrator will be to manage program and office activities in support of SPA and our Navy clients. You will primarily support meeting execution, coordinating across program, office services and other support organizations within SPA to ensure seamless support to high-level client meetings. You will also coordinate program wide administrative functions including onboarding, program admin (e.g. tracking CAC expirations and visit requests), and provide administrative support to SPA's program leadership team. You will also assist the AUKUS Group with the management of office and contract functions across a variety of areas including meetings, facilities, travel, and staff management.  This position is located at SPA HQ in Alexandria, VA.