Senior Acquisition Program Engineer

Odyssey Systems Consulting Group•Niceville, FL

About The Position

The Acquisition Program Engineer – Mission Planning provides technical and programmatic support to government acquisition programs, focusing on weapon system mission planning, integration, and lifecycle management. This role is responsible for ensuring that weapon systems and their mission planning components meet operational requirements, technical specifications, and program objectives.

Requirements

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen
Clearance: Must have and be able to maintain an Active Top Secret Clearance
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related technical field (ABET-accredited).
Experience in weapon system engineering, mission planning, and DoD acquisition processes.
Proficiency in systems engineering, risk management, and technical documentation.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with mission planning tools (e.g., JMPS), mapping data, and tactical data links is highly desirable.
Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and government stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Conduct reviews of armament program portfolios to evaluate and recommend alternative plans, improve systems engineering processes, manage and sustain technical baselines, and design/perform system-level tests to ensure compliance with approved specifications.
Prepare and review technical documents defining, specifying, and recommending system and subsystem characteristics.
Perform program reviews to evaluate alternative plans, systems engineering programs, and test results, ensuring subsystem and system performance meets program specifications.
Prepare management reports and conduct technical presentations for planning, implementation, and corrective actions using sound engineering principles.
Develop validation criteria and procedures for systems and subsystems.
Analyze and evaluate results of major engineering weapon systems and provide operations oversight.
Support program and project risk management activities in compliance with Air Force Systems Engineering Assessment Model (AF SEAM) processes.
Conduct formal trade studies considering engineering performance, effectiveness, cost, producibility, reliability, maintainability, risk, and schedule.
Provide technical recommendations, reviews, studies, audits, evaluations, and analyses, including scientific and procedural guidance and documentation.
Support proposal analysis by comparing and quantifying proposed systems, components, and approaches for technical feasibility, compatibility, and cost-effectiveness.
Review and analyze Initial Capabilities Documents, Capability Development Documents (CDDs), Capability Production Documents (CPDs), Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs), Military Utility Assessments (MUAs), CONOPS, Technology Development Strategies, Functional/Physical Configuration Audits, and Technology Standards Profiles.
Review and analyze system concepts and user requirements entered into the system requirements baseline.
Provide system/program engineering, technical support, and technical training throughout the acquisition lifecycle, including development, integration, sustainment, deployment, fielding, and installation.
Analyze weapon and user requirements for derived subsystem requirements related to navigation and guidance systems.
Understand and support operational real-time planning and preplanning systems for tactical aircraft and unmanned aerial systems.
Develop mission planning support systems for active and passive weapon guidance systems.
Apply strong knowledge of software engineering processes, mapping data and sources, photogrammetry, imagery products, NGA product specifications, and error budgets for guided and unguided weapons.
Understand national and tactical sensor systems, targeting sensors, and their use in weapon planning and operational use.
Support DoD mission planning systems, requirements, acquisition, integration, testing, and fielding processes.
Experience with air tasking order methods and processes, in-air operations centers, software interfaces, software verification/validation, Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS), weapon fly-out modeling, and network-centric operations in tactical data links (Link-16, CNR/VMF networks), unit-level C4I systems, and network connectivity/interoperability.