B1 Bomber Readiness and Sustainment SME

About the role

Our client is seeking a senior B-1 Readiness and Sustainment Subject Matter Expert to support the Air Force B-1 System Program Office at Tinker Air Force Base. The initial 16-week effort will improve how the SPO manages fleet readiness by establishing a current-state baseline, assessing the data and integration landscape, prioritizing and designing a minimum viable product, and developing an implementation roadmap. You will bring the weapon-system and sustainment context that allows the team to distinguish how readiness decisions are actually made from how a process appears on paper. You will work with System Program Office (SPO) leaders, logisticians, engineers, program managers, depot and production personnel, supply-chain stakeholders, and an integrated consulting and digital team. Ideal candidates understand the B-1 sustainment ecosystem and can turn incomplete data, cross-organizational dependencies, and ambiguous operational problems into practical decisions, clear requirements, and executable plans.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the team's senior B-1 readiness and sustainment advisor, providing practical context on fleet management, maintenance, engineering, logistics, supply, depot production, and field operations.
• Lead interviews and working sessions that document current readiness processes, decision rights, information flows, constraints, and pain points across the sustainment ecosystem.
• Help define the future-state readiness management approach, including decision forums, roles, key performance indicators, business rules, escalation paths, and recurring management routines.
• Translate operational needs into functional use cases, analytic requirements, data definitions, and acceptance criteria for a prioritized minimum viable product.
• Guide the assessment of readiness data sources, mappings, normalization needs, data quality, system interfaces, and integration constraints in partnership with data engineers and architects.
• Conduct or advise root-cause analyses of readiness drivers, including maintenance, supply, MICAP, production, engineering, and reliability issues, using FMEA or comparable methods when appropriate.
• Develop decision-ready briefings, process maps, requirements, risk and action trackers, and an implementation roadmap that can be incorporated into the SPO's routine operations.
• Engage B-1 stakeholders, including depot, wing and squadron, supply-chain, DLA, and other enterprise partners, to validate findings and remove barriers.