Subject Matter Expert - Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Protection

About the role

The Intelligence Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a senior subject matter expert for work regarding the protection of military systems from electromagnetic pulse (EMP) environments generated by nuclear-weapon detonations. Leidos’ customer is the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), located at Fort Belvoir, VA. The position is part time for a consulting employee. Applicant may telework remotely. Overall task: Provide technical assistance regarding the protection of military systems against EMP threat environments.

Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive technical reviews, assessments, and necessary edits of EMP-related technical documents (such as test plans, test reports, etc.) to assure the documents’ completeness, correctness, and clarity for DTRA and DTRA’s stakeholder community.
• Provide technical recommendations and assistance to DTRA and its stakeholders in creating or updating DoD military standards and associated military handbooks regarding EMP-protection requirements and best-practice guidance, which support nuclear-survivability policies and regulations for military systems.
• Provide training of EMP-protection principles and practices to newer members of the EMP-protection/hardening technical community.
• Travel to, and observe, field tests of EMP-protection systems executed in accordance with military standards (e.g., MIL-STD-188-125-1A) and provide critical, technical comments and reports based on these observations with respect to military-standard compliance.
• Participate in DTRA’s technical working groups regarding other EMP-related testing in the field or laboratory; technology designs, research, and development for advancing EMP hardness and hardness-testing; and EMP modeling-and-simulation (M&S) topics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Physics, Engineering, or comparable technical field with at least 17 years of applicable experience pertinent to