Responsibilities will include supporting the design of wargames to meet a variety of purposes and objectives. Analyzing, interpreting, and preparing briefings on operational concepts, military strategy, and doctrine as they pertain to wargaming design and objectives. Preparing reports, talking papers, and related material regarding the wargames, to include briefings, documents and presentations to senior AF and DoD leadership. Supporting the development and tailoring of wargame scenarios and vignettes. Building wargame specific documents (such as wargame orders, tasking directives, and calling messages). Developing, maintaining, modernizing, managing, and employing the Wargame Information Environment (WIE) and related components. Providing and maintaining a high level of subject-matter expertise for wargame support, participation, adjudication, facilitation, and analysis.
You will serve as the main liaison between the J9 Weapons Portfolio and the overall Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture integration effort. Responsibilities include planning, directing and coordinating operations. Formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning for materials and human resources. You will serve as the director or overall lead on complex projects and contracts. Provide updated technical, managerial, and contractional inputs to the Government. Responsible for ensuring methodologies such as AGILE are implemented consistently and for overall continuity among personnel performing on this TO. Assist in the creation, presentation, dissemination, and adherence to the Strategic Vision.
Responsibilities to serve as an Cyber Operations Planner, Subject Matter Expert, to serve as an Access Operations SETA. Provide in-depth technical expertise on existing access generating capabilities throughout the Department of Defense and Intelligence Communities as well as the business processes that support the employment of those capabilities.
As SPA's COMSEC Manager, you will be responsible for maintaining SPA's COMSEC account, to include maintaining governing instructions current, review messages and address account anomalies, conduct secure equipment and classified keying, material inventories, inspections and related COMSEC support. You will administer a TOP SECRET inventory and document control program to account for all COMSEC materials, conduct required inventories, and ensure compliance. You will work with the Senior Director of Security to coordinate COMSEC programs across SPA.
Job duties include but are not limited to:- Bring best practices to support our financial plans and policies, accounting practices, and procedures. - Be responsible for creating new program spend plans and EACs. - Attend and be responsible for the financial structure/revenue setup for 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; analyze the DSO to determine ways to improve. - Be responsible for program revenue and profit reporting. - Be responsible for subcontractor and consultant accruals, cost tracking, and invoice reviews. - Support financial planning, forecasts, and provide controller responsibilities such as A/R, Journal entries, A/P, etc. - Work side by side with Program Managers to help their programs be successful and interact with all functional and line organizations. - Must continuously be energized by a fast-paced environment and balance closing each month with attending needed PM/customer meetings.
The successful candidate will:- Assist HQ USSF/S8Z planners in the development of products for integration into USSF Space Operations Command Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution activities of critical space capabilities.- Integrate strategy plans for program submissions and tracking execution of approved budget activities.- Propose, develop, and layout a warfighting framework for the Space Superiority mission, specifically in the Space Control area.- Assist HQ SpOC/S8Z planners as they develop and maintain the Space and Cyberspace Superiority portions of the Commands CFSPs (now the Resource Allocation Plan, which includes the Planning Choices) and appendices, including the types of infrastructure and enablers (Integration & Engineering) necessary to design, acquire, and operate the Space and Cyberspace Superiority missions. Identify and integrate Planning and Programming guidance, DoD and service strategies, and doctrinal changes in support of HQ USSF/S8 planning effort. - Work with organizations such as Joint Staff, USSPACECOM, USSTRATCOM, USCYBERCOM, DoD/OSD, SAF/HAF, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space Operations Command (SpOC), 16th AF, SPOs/Centers (i.e. AF Rapid Capabilities Office, Space Rapid Capabilities Office), NRO, DIA, NSA, and other US agencies and mission partners to assist in understanding Space Force strategic priorities and direction. - Support planning integration events to include Air and Space Staff integration. - Provide updated briefings and point papers to the Government. - Prepare/deliver briefings/talking papers aimed at integrating and gaining planning advocacy for the Space Superiority/Space Control mission.- Include a summation of key issues and recommendations to the Government. - Interact directly with both the Space Staff and Air Staff, NAFs, MAJCOMs, Unified Commands, Air Staff, and defense agencies to assist in identifying and defining operational deficiencies and to integrate total force capabilities. - Attend conferences and other technical exchanges and provide reports as required (including summations of key issues and recommendations).
• Assists in architecting, designing and developing a large, customer-facing, service-oriented SharePoint environment for a large IT organization• Manages web environment design, deployment and maintenance activities• Performs testing and quality assurance of websites and web applications• Manages structure and content, to include graphics, for collaboration artifacts and data repositories based on SharePoint and other web/collaboration technologies• Provides support to assist customer content managers in accomplishing more complex tasks
You will serve as a technical expert providing direct support to Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems, Above Water Sensors and Lasers Directorate's (PEO IWS 2.0) Technical Director. You will be empowered to lead and act on behalf of the Technical Director ensuring the appropriate Systems Engineering processes and discipline is applied across the PEO IWS 2.0 Electronic Warfare (EW) portfolio. You will regularly work with stakeholders from industry, the PEO, Warfare Centers, Navy Labs and University Affiliated Research Centers on complex issues facing the Navy as well as future developments in EW.
Management- Lead various groups of employees and consultants on major integration projects- Perform gap analysis on company requirements and vendor software functionalities.- Negotiate license agreements, annual support costs, and consulting services.- Evaluate user requirements and recommend vendors based on software and technology.- Prepare project schedule and coordinate activities across all departments as it relates to system integration. Database- Develop automated triggers and procedures to streamline business processes.- Create scripts to automate data transfer.- Create custom views and tables to support operations.- Coordinate, test, and deploy database upgrades.- Create programs to optimize database performance.- Create agents and schedule for automated jobs.- Create programs to upload external data to applications.- Create programs to support external applications.Applications- Create and execute programs on Costpoint for reorganization.- Create and design organization structure for pool changes.- Support creation and design of accounts and projects to support reorganizations.- Create scripts to support reorganization.- Support design and build of pool allocation methodology.- Coordinate with hosting vendor for hot fixes, patches, and releases.- Coordinate with hosting provider on user access.- Coordinate with Deltek on software defects.- Troubleshoot system issues with respective vendors.- Troubleshoot network and performance issues with IT.- Administer user setup, rights, and groups across business applications.- Create additional entities and companies as required by mergers and acquisitions.Cognos- Create custom reports to support reporting requirements across all modules.- Automate project and management reports using Cognos.- Create scheduled reports to support management reporting.- Create daily scheduled reports to support programs.- Develop custom reports and programs to streamline and expedite monthly closing cycle.- Create custom reports to compare project actuals versus budget.Testing- Create test plan for application, operating system, and database upgrades.- Create test scripts for testing.- Create test steps for upgrades.- Coordinate user testing across departments.- Review test plan and coordinate user acceptance.- Review test results with team.- Coordinate with vendors on testing major releases and upgrades.- Coordinate with IT on testing and deployments.Audit- Respond to audit data call requests.- Generate user security and rights reports.- Identify internal control issues.- Develop and implement general controls to meet company standards.Support- Provide daily support and maintenance of business applications and databases.- Provide application support to users.- Provide timesheet and payroll support.- Provide month-end close support.- Provide year-end support.- Provide support for audit adjustments and financials.
The candidate will be responsible for supporting one of SPA's Navy clients in science and technology development. Responsibilities will include assisting clients with analysis, program management, strategic advice on the scope and utility of new technologies, supporting program reviews, and technology transition planning.
The candidate will be responsible for supporting one of SPA's Navy clients in science and technology development. Responsibilities will include assisting clients with analysis, program management, strategic advice on the scope and utility of new technologies, supporting program reviews, and technology transition planning.
The candidate will be responsible for supporting one of SPA's Navy clients in science and technology development. Responsibilities will include assisting clients with analysis, program management, strategic advice on the scope and utility of new technologies, supporting program reviews, and technology transition planning.
Apply a general level understanding of Chemistry in support of furthering the Client’s Science & Technology (S&T) objectives across the chemical threat spectrum (traditional, non-traditional, emerging and Pharmaceutical Based Agents) providing R&D analysis to the Joint Science and Technology Office Chemical & Biological Technologies Department Advanced & Emerging Threats Division (RD-CBS) as part of the Chemical and Biological Defense Program. Act as a DoD Chemistry SME on our team, applying chemistry expertise to advise and assist our Department of Defense client to reduce operational impact to the warfighter from chemical threats around the world. Provide in-depth scientific analyses and technology assessments across the chemical threat spectrum. Assist the Clients with managing a diverse and robust Science and Technology portfolio while applying Subject Matter Expertise in Advanced and Emerging Chemical Threats. Provide cross-functional expertise in applying basic and advanced scientific principles, with a focus on chemical weapons including Organophosphate (OP) agents including Fourth Generation Agents (FGAs), Pharmaceutical Based Agents (PBAs), bioregulators, and other emerging technologies that may impact the threat space. Apply technical or industry knowledge of computational chemistry; electronic structure calculations including Molecular Dynamics, Density Functional Theory, Cheminformatics on advanced and complex projects. Evaluate all project aspects, including design, development, execution, and implementation of threat agent science research and development and provide technical evaluations and recommendations. Understand and assess capability gaps and assist in setting project and product-level strategy and priorities, ensuring portfolios are responsive and mapped to program goals. Liaise with industry, start-ups, Government, and academia performers (includes working knowledge of university-affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs)); utilize scientific knowledge to evaluate and analyze novel technologies, research proposals, published and unpublished research, and data to ensure accurate and reliable information and provides recommendations to the government.
The Systems Administrator will be responsible for installation, configuration and support of servers, operating systems, cloud resources and databases. Responsibilities include building, installing and configuring physical and virtual servers; deploying and testing operating system updates, application troubleshooting, performance tuning and monitoring; developing sever and application maintenance procedures; documenting system architectures; managing endpoints using Microsoft Intune.; assisting in the administration of enterprise-wide applications such as Microsoft 365 and SharePoint in an Active Directory /Azure environment; applying foundational knowledge of data center hardware and networking technologies as they relate to application functionality to resolve complex technical issues; interfacing with vendors to troubleshoot and repair equipment; and other duties as assigned. This position also requires the ability to communicate ideas, issues, technical solutions, and processes clearly to both junior- and senior-level colleagues.#CJ
The candidate will serve as an OUSD (R&E) Research Analyst conducting collaboration with the NCITF, the NCIJTF, onsite USG clients, and Senior Executives at the Pentagon. Will respond to emergent requests for technology risk assessments synthesizing information from diverse sources resulting in recommendations for enhanced protection of the Defense Department’s critical technologies and programs. To support this, the candidate will be expected to take the initiative to proactively search out and engage with intelligence, security, academia, and government personnel to collect key data and sources to inform assessments. The position will also support the development of complex gap analyses and risk matrices for high-value dual-use or military technologies to identify opportunities to maintain, and potentially increase, U.S. technological advantage. The candidate will be expected to work full-time on client site at ARLIS in College Park, MD, with the potential of working at alternative sites across the NCR based on client needs.
The IT Support Specialist, as part of the End User Services Team, will perform day-to-day operational maintenance, installation, and support of end user laptops and workstations. The IT Support Specialist will perform troubleshooting of hardware and software, and work with other members of the IT team on any complex issues they cannot resolve independently. They will monitor the Help Desk including e-mail requests, answering telephone calls, and ticket management.The End User Services team members also help to safeguard the network against unauthorized infiltration, modification, destruction or disclosure. The candidate will implement, enforce, and communicate security policies or plans for data, software applications, hardware, and telecommunications, and may research, evaluate, test, recommend, communicate and implement new security software or devices.
The Senior 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. The Senior 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, analytic products, and decision support for senior client leadership and officials. This position is based out of SPA's Alexandria, VA HQ, with potential for light telework and some travel to client and stakeholder locations.
The successful candidate will:- Assist HQ USSF/S8Z planners in the development of Scientific and Technical (S&T) products for integration into USSF Space Operations Command activities.- Integrate concepts, tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).- Propose, develop, and layout a warfighting framework for the Space Superiority mission, specifically in the Space Control area.- Assist HQ SpOC/S8Z planners as they develop and maintain the Space and Cyberspace Superiority portions of the Commands CFSPs (now the Resource Allocation Plan, which includes the Planning Choices) and appendices, including the types of infrastructure and enablers (Integration & Engineering) necessary to design, acquire, and operate the Space and Cyberspace Superiority missions. Identify and integrate Planning and Programming guidance, DoD and service strategies, and doctrinal changes in support of HQ USSF/S8 planning effort. - Work with organizations such as Joint Staff, USSPACECOM, USSTRATCOM, USCYBERCOM, DoD/OSD, SAF/HAF, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space Operations Command (SpOC), 16th AF, SPOs/Centers (i.e. AF Rapid Capabilities Office, Space Rapid Capabilities Office), NRO, DIA, NSA, and other US agencies and mission partners to assist in understanding Space Force strategic priorities and direction. - Support planning integration events to include Air and Space Staff integration. - Provide updated briefings and point papers to the Government. - Prepare/deliver briefings/talking papers aimed at integrating and gaining planning advocacy for the Space Superiority/Space Control mission.- Include a summation of key issues and recommendations to the Government. - Interact directly with both the Space Staff and Air Staff, NAFs, MAJCOMs, Unified Commands, Air Staff, and defense agencies to assist in identifying and defining operational deficiencies and to integrate total force capabilities. - Attend conferences and other technical exchanges and provide reports as required (including summations of key issues and recommendations).
SPA has an upcoming need for a dedicated and passionate S&T-minded junior analyst to join a high-performance team working to address some of the most critical issues facing the DoD today. The analyst will have a unique opportunity to develop cutting edge methodologies in a high impact environment. This work includes analysis and assessment of emerging disruptive technologies and their potential to impact military capabilities over the next twenty years. The analyst will work with our multidisciplinary team to define problems, identify performance measures, and perform gap and root cause analysis in order to identify alternatives and recommendations to improve warfighter effectiveness. Other responsibilities include researching, identifying, and implementing analytic methodologies to efforts across the scope of work and assisting in the framing, development, and presentation of analysis including drafting briefing materials and various documents for executive audiences. The analyst will also develop analytic software tools as needed from simple, Excel-based models to robust military modeling and simulation projects in proprietary toolsets.This role will be located onsite at SPA HQ in Alexandria, VA.
Expected Contributions and Responsibilities- Reconcile labor each payroll cycle.- Responsible for registration and oversight of multi-state payroll compliance and filings.- Assist with compliance of all Payroll and Timekeeping with GAAP, CAS, and the FAR.- Supervise the bi-monthly & monthly payrolls with multiple states, including full execution of the payroll and related processes, as well as process international payroll.- Ensure employee payroll records are accurately maintained in the respective systems.- Assist with the completion of the annual Incurred Cost Submission and own Schedule L.- Assist in the annual budget process and provide support as necessary.- Assist with and ensure all audit requests are provided timely and accurately from the payroll team.- Maintain the monthly reconciliation of all respective general ledger accounts and resolve variances timely.- Manage one or more payroll staff members with varied backgrounds.- Perform account research and ad-hoc accounting/reporting/administrative tasks.- Collaborate with the HR team to manage the annual 401K audit from a Payroll perspective. - Other duties as assigned.
