OUSW(R&E) and DARPA Hypersonics Senior Technical Advisor

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide timely and accurate technical counsel to the Senior Official for Scaled Hypersonics, covering the breadth of technical disciplines and programs concerned with the development and demonstration of technologies and hypersonic flight systems.
• Enable an integrated understanding of the state of the United States Defense Hypersonic Enterprise.
• Identify and monitor hypersonic research, development, test and evaluation activities across the hypersonic enterprise including DoW, NASA, Department of Energy (DoE), Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), academia, and industry.
• Identify and monitor hypersonic system development, demonstration and acquisition programs across the enterprise.
• Provide regular technical updates and assessments to the Senior Official for Scaled Hypersonics on technology development activities and system development programs to maintain PDH awareness of progress, problems, investment needs and opportunities.
• Recommend possible client actions to address problems and investment needs.
• Provide hypersonic technology and system development technical counsel and guidance to R&E leadership, intelligence agencies, uniformed services, combatant commands and team members.
• Mentor team members in hypersonic technology and system development topics and support team taskings and actions.
• Support the Senior Official for Scaled Hypersonics in meetings with senior DoW, USW(R&E), service, and COCOM leadership to provide technical counsel and perspectives on US hypersonic technology and system development.
• Support the intelligence community's efforts to assess foreign hypersonic technology and system development activities.
• Collaborate with team members to address taskings issued to the Scaled Hypersonics office, providing technical assessments and expertise to support those taskings.
• Support the Senior Official for Scaled Hypersonics in the development and assessment of new initiatives and investments to advance hypersonic technology and system development in accordance with the primary goals and priorities as outlined in the Hypersonic Strategic Approach.
• Support the Program Objective Memorandum (POM) planning and annual Program Review process with technical assessments, evaluations and recommendations for program content and funding changes for hypersonic efforts.
• Formulate and direct concepts for new studies and programs for technology development, demonstration, and to examine the warfighting benefits of hypersonic systems.
• Evaluate hypersonic technology and system development initiatives across the enterprise to provide assessments of technical, programmatic, and fiscal fidelity and value.

Required Qualifications

• Master of Science degree in a scientific or technological discipline relevant to hypersonics.
• At least 20 years’ relevant experience.
• An active US Government Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.
• Demonstrated experience with applied technology (not basic research) and a background working on complex systems.
• Demonstrated experience with hypersonics vehicles, systems, and programs.
• Demonstrated professionalism, maturity, sound judgement, and excellent communication and interpersonal skills necessary for daily interactions with senior-level government officials, other technical support personnel, and executive-level stakeholder audiences in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently or in a team setting as circumstances dictate.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in a scientific or technological discipline relevant to hypersonics.
• Prior experience supporting the military services, DARPA, or OUSW(R&E) on complex programs, systems, and demonstrations.