Senior SIGINT Ground Systems Expert

KBR • Chantilly, VA

17d

About The Position

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. KBR is seeking a SIGINT Ground Systems Expert to execute operations related working with developers on the initiation, rehearsals, and planning as well as Operations and Maintenance (O&M) efforts of space systems on behalf of our team supporting our customer in Chantilly, VA that delivers mission-critical capabilities directly supporting intelligence-gathering missions from overhead systems. We lead architectural assessments and report recommendations to senior US Government personnel guiding acquisition and execution of next-generation SIGINT systems needs for the next 10-20 years. These systems deliver collected data distributed to US Government Intelligence Community and Military users. The SIGINT Ground Systems Expert serves as a technical advisor to support the Government with Mission planning and initiation of SIGINT payloads and systems. The SIGINT leadership team embraces innovation in a relentless effort to meet intelligence needs and shorten the timelines to provide actionable critical information to US Government decision-makers. This is a position of trust advising the US Government and supporting critical missions in SIGINT, COMINT, FISINT, and ELINT. This is a contingent position based upon contract award

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Bachelor's degree STEM (Master's degree preferred)
• 10+ years of experience
• Strong engineering skills in SIGNALS and RF systems for overhead space systems and supporting ground architectures
• Familiarity with current SIGINT and COMM architectures
• Familiarity with developers offerings to satisfy SIGINT needs
• Experience in the design & integration of ground station digital hardware and knowledgeable of ground station activities and ground architecture is required
• Track ground system development issues and recommend common interfaces
• Familiarity with current SIGINT and COMM architectures
• Familiarity with IC acquisition policies and procedures

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead on ground system command and control hardware requirements development, design analysis, and production methodologies for SIGINT
• Provide expert technical recommendations and engineering advice on the development and integration of new and modified capabilities in the SIGINT domain, with a specific emphasis on cross mission, cross discipline integration
• Provide Government acquisition support including, but not limited to Engineering Change Proposals (ECP), ECP Technical Evaluations, core acquisition processes and documentation (SOW, RFP, WBS, etc.)
• Define future architecture enhancements and their associated features and capabilities
• Provide technical and programmatic inputs to Government program office cost estimates
• Provide experienced counsel to the Government staff through all phases of acquisition including, but not limited to generation and review of system and sub-system requirements, development processes, integration, verification, validation and testing (IVV&T)
• Aid in working with Mission Operations teams to enable transition of new capabilities into mainstream operations
• Coordinate with internal and external offices, Directorates and agencies of the US Government to identify, characterize and resolve issues and risks throughout the acquisition lifecycle

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees