Missile Defense Specialist, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton•Arlington, VA

1d•$62,000 - $141,000

About The Position

As an acquisition-focused Missile Defense Specialist, you’ll bring your strategic and technical expertise to work alongside senior portfolio management leaders on projects that drive acquisition policy and defense procurement decisions. You’ll use your skills and expertise to assess technical capabilities, evaluate readiness, and establish doctrine for the DoW's lower-tier missile defense portfolio. You will collaborate with Joint and Interagency partners to recommend policy-driven Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) architectures, drive senior executive engagements, and assess IAMD system acquisition performance against a rapidly evolving, multi-domain threat landscape. Further your career while creating mission-forward solutions that matter. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience within the lower-tier IAMD acquisition enterprise, including system and radar performance, interceptors, or engagement profiles such as Patriot, Sentinel radar, AIAMD/IBCS, IFPC, SPY-6, LTAMDS, or M-SHORAD
Experience developing and evaluating acquisition strategies, acquisition program baselines, risk reduction plans, or international cooperation plans
Experience preparing and coordinating correspondence requests directed to senior department leadership, legislative branch offices, audits, foreign governments or agencies, international organizations, or suppliers
Ability to conduct technical or programmatic assessments and present to leadership
TS/SCI clearance
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

Experience analyzing mission capability portfolios to assess cost, schedule, and performance risks associated with the system-of-systems required to execute mission threads
Experience with the Defense of Guam architecture and strategy
Experience developing monthly and quarterly status reports on major acquisition programs, including Selected Acquisition Reports (SARs)
Experience supporting the preparation of Acquisition Decision Memoranda, Overarching Integrated Product Team (OIPT) reports, or program update briefings
Experience supporting General Accounting Office and DoW Inspector General studies and audits
Experience with Department correspondence software, including CATMS or ETMS2
Defense Acquisition University Certification in Systems Acquisition or the Defense Industry

Responsibilities

Assess technical capabilities, evaluate readiness, and establish doctrine for the DoW's lower-tier missile defense portfolio.
Collaborate with Joint and Interagency partners to recommend policy-driven Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) architectures.
Drive senior executive engagements.
Assess IAMD system acquisition performance against a rapidly evolving, multi-domain threat landscape.