Commercial Space Futures Office – Assistant Principal Director

Commercial Space Futures Office – Assistant Principal Director

Requirements

• Proactive, fast learner with the willingness and ability to work in a dynamic hi-visibility environment with routine engagement with the most executive levels of government and decision makers.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in commercial space capabilities, related technologies and services, and/or development/engineering, and/or program management.
• Experience in commercial space systems technologies, capabilities, acquisition, and an understanding of space and ground systems development.
• Current knowledge of the commercial, DOD, IC and Civil space systems challenges and opportunities, including national- and agency-level space policy and knowledge of government planning, programming, budgeting, and execution cycles.
• Excellent full-spectrum communication and interpersonal skills; adept at written and oral communication spanning a wide range of levels of detail and communication media/processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, science, computer science, or other technical discipline.
• Willing to travel 30% and/or as desired/required.
• Possession and ability to maintain TS/SCI security clearance as issued by the US government. U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• With the Principal Director, Commercial Space Futures, you will co-pilot the development and execution of Aerospace’s Commercial Space Peloton, a cross-functional initiative to create actionable integration pathways for commercial and space innovation base capabilities for our DoD, Intelligence Community, and Civil Space agencies.
• Develop, mature, and execute Aerospace multi-disciplined commercial space capability/service independent assessment process and products in support of DoD, IC and Civil US Government customers and clients as the industry standard for independent validation and verification (IV&V) methodology applicable to all space mission areas.
• With the Principal Director, Commercial Space Futures, and the Chief Technology Officer, support the curation and implementation of Aerospace’s corporate Commercial Space Strategy to create products and services that align with customer needs and corporate goals.
• Engage with key National Security Space and Civil space agency-level offices to understand and then satisfy needs related to commercial technology investment planning, commercial technology roadmapping, and integration planning for commercial and space innovation base capabilities; where necessary, resource dedicated support for these offices.
• Support the Principal Director’s interactions with Aerospace executive management regarding strategy, business results, and resources, to include management of the CSF Corporate Strategic Investment efforts, and both on and off-ceiling PTS management.
• Engage with commercial space providers, space and non-space technology experts and companies (including non-traditional applications) to assess their products, approaches, and technologies for integration into the space enterprise to outpace the threat, and meet ever changing requirements.
• Establish partner teams within Aerospace to resource necessary expertise to assess commercial technologies that have potential DoD space architecture applications and disseminate analysis across enterprise at a consistent cadence.
• Direct support to the USSF/SSC Commercial Solutions Office, AFRL’s SpaceWERX, and other direct customers as required for strategy, policy, and process curation; requirements development and validation, source selection and evaluation, as well as other relevant policy, strategy, planning, and programming tasks and processes to resource USSF’s and DoD’s commercial space capability/service’s needs.
• Partnering with Aerospace’s Corporate Communications team, participate in technical forums (e.g., TechCrunch, Space Symposium) as a thought leader, and draft and publish thought pieces on commercial space capabilities and services to develop and maintain relationships and inform and educate government and industry.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in engineering, mathematics, science, computer science, or other technical discipline. MBA focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, etc. would be excellent alternative to MS
• Experience in and planning/leading strategic foresighting studies and / or strategic technology investment roadmapping
• Working experience and familiarity with Aerospace’ CSF and the Bench to Battlefield process, DOD, IC and Civil space agency/organization National Security Space planning and processes.
• Working knowledge of Aerospace Engineering and Technology Group (ETG), Defense Systems Group (DSG), National Systems Group (NSG), and the Office of the Chief Technology Officer skills and capabilities.
• Experience working large, complex issues and the ability to break down problems into meaningful steps to accomplish with a team
• Working knowledge of the Pentagon and Interagency coordination processes / points of contact. Recent previous or current Pentagon / ODNI access (“green badge” or “blue badge”)