BNATCS Program Liaison

Peraton is a next‑generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and non‑traditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces.

About the Role

Join Peraton in advancing the safety, efficiency, and modernization of the National Airspace System (NAS) through the FAA’s Brand New Air Traffic Control System (BNATCS) contract. As the BNATCS Program Liaison you will serve as a central coordination and engagement lead across Peraton and FAA stakeholders supporting the BNATCS program. This role requires strong familiarity with the FAA environment, the ability to navigate FAA organizations, operational culture, stakeholder dynamics, and the realities of modernization efforts inside the NAS. You will strengthen communication flow, triage relationship and coordination issues, and improve alignment across technical, operational, executive, and field communities.

What You’ll Do

• Translate technical, operational, and programmatic developments into concise, decision‑useful communication for executive, customer, and working‑level audiences.
• Support leadership in navigating FAA organizational dynamics, field sensitivities, and modernization‑related stakeholder challenges.
• Serve as a primary liaison across FAA program offices, ATO and field stakeholders, Peraton leadership, and engineering teams supporting BNATCS modernization activities.
• Help triage FAA relationship issues, stakeholder friction, and communication breakdowns before they become execution or leadership problems.
• Support coordination across FAA and Peraton organizations where responsibilities, timing, expectations, or communication channels are unclear.
• Identify where BNATCS plans, activities, or communications may create field confusion, resistance, or misalignment and work with the team to address those gaps early.
• Facilitate working sessions, issue reviews, and stakeholder engagement activities that clarify roles, dependencies, priorities, and next steps.
• Assist with ATO‑ and field‑facing coordination for site visits, implementation planning, stakeholder awareness, and readiness‑related communications.
• Track stakeholder concerns, commitments, and emerging issues across multiple threads and ensure disciplined follow‑through to closure.
• Support executive and working‑level briefings, issue summaries, white papers, and engagement materials tailored to different FAA and Peraton audiences.
• Help design more repeatable communication and coordination mechanisms that can scale as BNATCS expands across organizations and field activity.
• Bring structure to ambiguity by organizing issues, framing trade‑offs, identifying dependencies, and helping leaders move from discussion to aligned action.

What Success Looks Like

• FAA and Peraton stakeholders have stronger shared understanding of responsibilities, priorities, risks, and timing.
• Stakeholder and communication issues are surfaced early, framed clearly, and managed before they become more serious execution challenges.
• Leadership receives actionable insight into FAA relationship dynamics, field concerns, and coordination gaps.
• Cross‑functional efforts move faster because technical, operational, and organizational ambiguity is translated into structure and follow‑through.
• Site‑ and field‑impacting work is better supported by deliberate stakeholder engagement and communication planning.
• The BNATCS program becomes less dependent on ad‑hoc relationship management and more capable of repeatable, scalable coordination.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain/maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• 10+ years of experience supporting FAA, DOT, NAS, DoD, or similarly complex federal programs.
• Demonstrated familiarity with FAA organizations, modernization environments, operational stakeholders, and the realities of working inside or alongside the National Airspace System.
• Experience operating in stakeholder‑facing roles that require relationship management, issue triage, and cross‑functional coordination across technical, operational, and executive groups.
• Strong ability to understand and discuss the technical and operational implications of modernization activities, even if not serving as the lead engineer or architect.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical, operational, and programmatic issues into clear written and verbal communication for varied audiences.
• Demonstrated success facilitating alignment where formal authority is limited and progress depends on trust, judgment, and follow‑through.
• Strong organizational discipline, including the ability to manage multiple issue threads, stakeholder relationships, and action items simultaneously.
• Ability to identify emerging risks, ambiguity, and coordination breakdowns and help drive timely response.
• Experience preparing executive summaries, stakeholder briefings, issue papers, or decision‑support materials in fast‑moving environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience supporting FAA modernization, NAS transformation, ATO operations, Engineering Services, Tech Ops, or comparable aviation‑related federal efforts.
• Working familiarity with FAA program structures, field coordination challenges, and the interaction between headquarters, program offices, and operational stakeholders.
• Experience supporting site‑readiness, field coordination, implementation planning, or stakeholder engagement tied to technical deployment efforts.