Weapon Systems Analyst/External Customer Integrator

Company: Perspecta
Location: Huntsville
Posted on: February 23, 2021

Job Description:

Business Group Highlights DefenseThe Defense group supports the Department of Defense (DoD) mission to keep our homeland and its citizens safe. We provide solutions to improve the Nation's defense by providing software, systems engineering, IT, training and logistics and fleet management solutions. Responsibilities The Air and Missile Defense (AMD) External Interfaces (EI) Subject Matter Expert (SME) will work as a member of the Army Program Executive Office Missiles and Space (PEO MS) Integrated Fires Mission Command (IFMC) Project Office (PO) Systems Engineering Team to develop capabilities, designs, and algorithms and execute papers, studies, experiments, and demonstrations to improve IFMC's usage of external data to become a mature consumer and producer within the Army and the Department of Defense. The EI SME will be a source of knowledge and guidance to the Agile software development teams. The position will include technical briefings and advisement to leadership on recommended courses of action, trade studies, architecture and design, competing capabilities, performance, risks, and impacts to the IFMC mission. The AMD EI SME's measure of success is how well IFMC is using and fusing all sources of external data to effectively and efficiently improve defense effectiveness (DE), cooperative engagement (CE), composite tracking (CT), and Combat Identification (CID). The AMD EI SME's secondary measure of success is do the Army and other services value the IFMC data placed into the Common Operating Picture (COP). The position in NOT one of interface certification, testing, or verification.

Qualifications Basic Qualifications: The candidate must have an understanding of cooperative engagement, composite tracking, and CID concepts, must be familiar with current IFMC's available interfaces (e.g., BFT/JBC-P. Link16, IBS, Enhanced Update Rate), must have experience consuming and producing external interface data for an AMD mission, and must have architecture design, and algorithm development experience. The candidate must be familiar with known sources of AMD CID (e.g., IFF, ADS-B, Civilian Flight Plans, Air Tasking Orders, NCTR, and must be able to improve on existing algorithms and/or synthesize new algorithms to mature the IFMC's DE, CE, CT, and CID capabilities. The candidate must be able to work directly with the Agile software developers as needed. The candidate must:

• Be fluent in the Microsoft Office toolset
• Be a
• Be a resident of the Huntsville, AL area,
• Have a Bachelor's degree (or advanced degree) from an accredited college (ABET preferred) in engineering, the sciences or mathematics,
• Have a minimum of 7 years combined Government/DoD experience in performing the essential duties listed above, Other Qualifications: An additional plus is knowledge in IBCS, PATRIOT, MEADS, THAAD, C2BMC, or AEGIS. The ability to "move out" and champion your ideas, architectures, designs, algorithms; enthusiasm; independent critical thinking; and a team attitude are very important. Please note, as part of this government team you will be the design agent for IFMC: the prime contractor develops the code based upon YOUR government provided architectures, interfaces, designs, algorithms, and guidance. Security Requirements: Candidate must be able to obtain a Secret security clearance or higher. About Perspecta What matters to our nation, is what matters to us. At Perspecta, everything we do, from conducting innovative research to cultivating strong relationships, supports one imperative: ensuring that your work succeeds. Our company was formed to bring a broad array of capabilities to all parts of the public sector-from investigative services and IT strategy to systems work and next-generation engineering. Our promise is simple: never stop solving our nation's most complex challenges. And with a workforce of approximately 14,000, more than 48 percent of which is cleared, we have been trusted to do just that, as a partner of choice across the entire sector. Perspecta is an AA/EEO Employer - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. As a government contractor, Perspecta abides by the following provisionPay Transparency Nondiscrimination ProvisionThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of the other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c). - provided by Dice

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