1749 - Threat System SME

About the role

Sigma Defense is seeking a Threat Systems Subject Matter Expert (SME) to serve as a technical and operational authority on threat systems, threat representation, and their application within the test and training community. This position requires a deep-rooted background within the Intelligence Community (IC), combined with a strong understanding of Radio Frequency (RF) systems, threat effects, threat characteristics, and the methods used to accurately represent those threats in operational test and training environments. The SME will serve as a critical liaison between customers requesting threat support and the organizations responsible for developing, providing, or operating the required threat representations. A key component of this role is the ability to work with customers who may understand their operational objective but may not know precisely what threat capability, representation, or technical solution is required. The SME must be able to translate ambiguous or incomplete requirements into clearly defined technical solutions and guide those requirements from initial concept through coordination, development, integration, and final delivery. Success in this position requires more than technical expertise. The Threat Systems SME must be able to understand the customer's operational objective, determine what is technically required to achieve it, and bring together the appropriate intelligence, engineering, threat, test, and training organizations to deliver an effective solution. The individual serves as the connective element between customer intent, intelligence-based threat understanding, technical threat representation, and final execution. The ability to turn an unclear requirement into a technically credible and executable threat solution is a defining responsibility of this role.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the organization's Subject Matter Expert for threat systems, threat representation, and associated test and training applications
• Apply extensive Intelligence Community experience and threat knowledge to ensure threat representations are technically credible, operationally relevant, and appropriately aligned with customer objectives
• Provide technical expertise regarding RF systems, emitters, threat characteristics, effects, capabilities, limitations, and representative threat environments
• Understand the relationship between intelligence-derived threat information and the development of appropriate threat representations for test, evaluation, experimentation, and training activities
• Serve as the primary liaison between customers requesting threat support and organizations responsible for developing, providing, integrating, or operating threat representations
• Engage customers to identify the underlying operational or technical objective when requirements are incomplete, ambiguous, or not fully defined
• Translate complex or obscure customer requests into clear, actionable technical requirements and recommended solutions
• Evaluate available threat representation capabilities and recommend the most appropriate solution based on customer objectives, technical requirements, test or training conditions, schedule, and available resources
• Coordinate threat support requirements from initial customer engagement through planning, technical coordination, execution, and final delivery of the threat product or capability
• Facilitate technical discussions among intelligence professionals, engineers, program managers, test personnel, operators, leadership, and other stakeholders
• Communicate complex threat and RF concepts in a manner appropriate for audiences ranging from highly technical personnel to senior