Location: Springfield,VA, USA
Overall Assignment Description: Serve as an advisor to a Government-led team that:
* Enables:
* Coordination across traditional & non-traditional collectors (commercial, unclassified sensing, mission partners).
* Rapid evolution of advanced analytic algorithms, tools and tradecraft through concept development, prototypes, exercises and operational demonstrations.
* Strategy alignment and draw on national-level experts to perform independent technical and program assessments in support of strategic objectives and major acquisition milestones.
* Provides acquisition strategy program management services to senior management.
* Evolves:
* Service centric model that enables discoverable services, and data that can be flexibly delivered to mobile platforms at all classification levels.
* IT strategies, concepts, standards, architectures and engineering roadmaps that reduce risk, inform policy and steer acquisition to help meet Agency's long terms goal for the integrated intelligence environment.
* Maintains the enterprise architecture baseline and plans the approach to achieving new future architectures
Duties may include:
* Influence the GEOINT strategy by enabling the coordination across traditional and non-traditional collectors, including commercial and unclassified sensing, and coordinating activities in a layered architecture approach across mission partners.
* Recommend approaches to advance analytic algorithms, tools, and tradecraft via concept development, prototypes, pilots and operational demonstrations.
* Guide the engineering path to the future Agency architecture.
* Define novel approaches to advancing an IT service-centric model that enables discoverable content, services and easy data delivery across multiple classification domains.
* Support strategy development, standards and engineering roadmaps that aide in risk reduction, inform policy and guide acquisition to meet Agency's long-term strategic goals.
* Leverage unique knowledge, innovation and trusted Intelligence Community relationships to advise about technical strategies, architectures and future directions.
* Advise about new prototype and pathfinder approaches.
* Guide transition methods to emergent capabilities.
* Define approaches to improve IT efficiency, effectiveness and resilience in supporting the GEOINT mission.
* Recommend:
* Enhancements to Agency's analytic tradecraft in integrating new sources of information and exquisite capabilities into its operational environment.
* Approaches to accelerate Agency's shift towards commercial capabilities, open source data, persistent GEOINT, big data analytics, CLOUD and integrated intelligence.
* Novel collection strategies that fully leverages available sources to enable persistence and advance processing and analytic capabilities for Agency.
* Assist Agency with forming tighter collaborative relationships with mission partners to align collection and achieve integrated mission intelligence.
* Provide technical, financial, schedule and risk management expertise and assistance to the project, program or Program Management Office (PMO).
* Recommend approaches to maintaining the existing architecture baseline and approaches to evolve to new future architectures.
Skills and Experience:
Required:
* Master's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field such as Physics, Aerospace, or Remote Sensing.
* 15 years demonstrated specialized experience in Information technology.
* Project Management Professional (PMP), DAWIA Level III certification in Program Management or equivalent specialized experience with Project Management tools and techniques.
Desired:
* Demonstrated specialized experience in any of the following:
* Supporting NSG sensor independent data, standards and algorithm integration.
* GEOINT and MASINT or SAR processing and exploitation.
* Coordinating activities in a layered architecture approach across mission partners.
* Cloud infrastructure support.
* Enterprise architecture and/or solutions architecture.
* Proven and trusted Intelligence Community relationships.
* Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification.
* Demonstrated specialized experience in any of the following:
* Analytic algorithms and big data, tools, and tradecraft via concept development, prototypes, pilots and operational demonstrations.
* IT services and ITIL methodology.
* Developing and working systems roadmaps and project plans.
* Communication across all levels of the Agency and between Agencies.
* Cost/ Price analysis, cost estimating or financial management.
Compass, Inc. (Compass) is a Small Business (SB) headquartered in Winchester, VA as a Defense and Intelligence solutions provider to the United States Government. We provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA), Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS), and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) to our government and business partner customers. As a premier Defense and Intelligence solution provider, we employee a diverse, agile, highly trained and extremely talented staff.
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