• Interesting Work: Our co-workers support some of the most important and critical programs to our national defense and security.
• Values: Our first core value is that employees come first. We challenge our co-workers to provide the highest level of support and service, and reward them with some of the best benefits in the industry.
• 100% Employee Ownership: we have a stake in each other's success, and the success of our customers. It's also nice to know what's going on across the company; we have company wide town-hall meetings three times a year.
• Great Benefits - Most Full-Time Staff Are Eligible for:
• Starting PTO accrual of 20 days PTO/year + 10 holidays/year
• Flexible schedules
• 6% 401k match with immediate vesting
• Semi-annual bonus eligibility (July and December)
• Company funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - a separate qualified retirement account
• Up to $10,000 in annual tuition reimbursement
• Other company funded benefits, like life and disability insurance
• Optional zero deductible Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance plan
• Track Record of Success: We have grown every year since our founding in 1993

Responsibilities:

• Assess MD threats, capability gaps, challenges, needs and opportunities, and develop potential system mitigations and capability evolutions at the architecture level
• Provide analytical expertise on adversary capabilities, systems engineering and flight test and evaluation.
• Evaluate the adequacy of the current BMDS approach and architecture to counter the threat and recommend courses of action for strategy, system improvements; and, identify alternate strategies for affordable, cost effective and technically advanced systems.
• Provide hypersonic expertise to support MDA's role as lead agent for hypersonic defense architectures by facilitating inter-agency services, coordination, and communications for hypersonic defense efforts.
• Contribute to development of MDS future architectures and roadmaps for integration of future capabilities, including advanced concepts, into the MDS architecture.
• Support, plan and facilitate technical exchanges, engagements for workshops/summits, forums, and reengineering of Missile Defense Architectures.
• Provide reach-back for consulting services for key Missile Defense development expertise; facilitating efforts across internal/external stakeholders and providing strategic advice, guidance and direction.
• Support Defense Architecture evolution strategy development through assessment of interim and final results of Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) and other analysis activities to include top level requirements and test infrastructure requirements/coordination.
• Support, evaluate, analyze and develop technical recommendations through industrial base exchanges and engagement with DoD, providing input on program process improvement opportunities.
• Support coordination of team’s responses to MDA-wide tasks, data calls, and review and comment of MDA documents to include Reports to Congress and higher DoD requests.

Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in STEM Field with 12+ years, or BS in STEM Field with 20+ years
• Active Secret clearance required with the ability to obtain an Top Secret/SCI
• Proficient understanding of the current MDS architecture
• Prior experience and understanding of the MDA mission
• Experience with application of M&S to defense architectures, HPC experience, MBSE experience are all pluses
• Familiarity with DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF)
• Systems engineering background or familiarity

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Active TS/SCI Clearance
• Experience with BMD Benchmark
• Experience developing System of Systems
• Experience with application of modeling & simulation to defense architectures