Check out this NEW Opportunity with Axient!

Axient is seeking a Senior Air Warfare Defense Technologist 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: MS in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or related discipline

• Preferred: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or related discipline

• Clearance: TS/SCI

• A minimum of 15 years of experience with bolstering the development and implementation of advanced air warfare technologies and systems.

• Experience supporting a warfare specialty including planning, developing and executing technical projects of a R&D nature, concerned with unique or controversial problems which have an important effect on major DoD programs.

• Demonstrated experience in the use of advanced techniques, theories, precepts, and practices in technological programs, preferably one that has transitioned to operational use.

• Experience, background and knowledge of program transition efforts is highly desirable.

• Joint/COCOM staff experience highly desirable.

• Demonstrated skill in conceiving, planning and conducting research studies combining operational expertise with novel technology approaches and sophisticated research techniques to assess military effectiveness and engineering viability.

• Location: National Capital Region

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Job ID 2024-5799

Category Technologist

# of Openings 0

Location : Location US-VA-Arlington-Pentagon

Type Regular, Full-Time

Minimum Education Requirement Master's

Minimum Experience Requirement, Years 15+

Clearance Requirement TS-SCI