Intern Strategic Growth and Capture

SAIC•Reston, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Strategic Growth and Capture Intern will support SAIC’s Growth Organization, which identifies, pursues, and wins federal contracts across national security, defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets. The intern will work alongside Business Development executives, Capture Managers, Solution Architects, and Competitive Intelligence analysts, gaining hands-on exposure to the federal procurement lifecycle, strategic market positioning, competitive analysis, and proposal development. This internship is onsite in Reston, Virginia. The intern will conduct market and competitor research, support capture strategies and proposal operations, maintain pursuit data and analytics, and complete a capstone project presented to SAIC Growth leadership and Business Group Growth Officers at the conclusion of the internship.

Requirements

Current college student with at least two years of coursework completed in a business-related major.
U.S. citizenship.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, and comfort working with data and presentations.
Strong analytical, research, and written communication skills.
Demonstrated organization, teamwork, and/or leadership experience.
Self-starter able to adapt to changing priorities and deadlines.

Nice To Haves

Interest in federal government, defense, space, or intelligence markets.

Responsibilities

Conduct market assessments across defense, space, civilian, and intelligence agency pipelines using federal market tools such as GovWin IQ, SAM.gov, FPDS, and USAspending.
Develop competitive landscapes, competitor profiles, and competitive intelligence dossiers, including analysis of traditional defense contractors and emerging defense-technology companies.
Summarize research in executive briefing decks covering customer needs, budget trends, and procurement activity.
Support Capture Managers through pre-award milestones, including opportunity qualification, solution development, teaming, and price-to-win reviews.
Help develop value propositions, customer-focused win themes, and mission narratives that connect SAIC’s technical strengths to warfighter needs.
Work with partner intelligence leads to analyze teaming agreements, subcontractor capabilities, and small-business socio-economic utilization strategies.
Participate in proposal stand-up meetings, storyboarding sessions, and Pink, Red, and Gold Team reviews.
Help prepare past-performance matrices, compliance cross-reference tables, and capability summaries.
Work with Growth Enablement leads to improve capture toolkits, template repositories, and pipeline metrics.
Maintain and audit pursuit data in Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Help build and maintain Power BI dashboards tracking qualified pipeline value, win rate, bookings forecast, and Bid and Proposal spending.
Research, develop, and present a Growth Capstone Project to SAIC Growth leadership and Business Group Growth Officers at the end of the internship.