| Location | Arlington, VA |
Responsibilities: include supporting the Defense Production Act, managing industrial facilities, reviewing mergers and acquisitions, and contributing to OSD Industrial Base Assessments. The right candidate will join a team supporting the Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition (SAF/AQ) on the Staffing and Technical Acquisition Services Support II (STAQSS II) contract. *This position is currently on-site at the Pentagon 5 days per week. The tasks for this position include: - Supporting HAF budget preparation and defense, SAE oversight and decision-making activities, PEO program execution and oversight efforts of aircraft platforms. - Maintaining and analyzing planning, scheduling, and management data. - Studying, analyzing, and providing recommendations on requirements, acquisition strategies, program documentation, program phase transition plans, supplemental information, and program execution. -Providing impartial assessments of programs approaching milestone decisions and of prime contractor technical and operational issues. - Researching and analyzing program trends, identifying issues, and recommending solutions. - Making recommendations on the allocation of funding, establishment of program goals, objectives, and schedules, and the formulation of program direction. - Tracking documentation for compliance with stated program direction and identifying issues. - Identifying and researching programmatic issues and tradeoffs in terms of required capabilities, costs, and schedules. - Reviewing and providing recommendations on existing and proposed Air Force acquisition and capability area policies and implementation. - Reviewing and evaluating the impact of national, DoD, JCS, and civil government policies and activities that affect Air Force acquisition programs and capability areas. - Maintaining historical Air Force weapon program documentation and developing summary documents/briefings and training material. - Providing short-notice, quick-reaction analyses of critical programmatic issues in the context of Congressional, OSD Staff, Joint Staff, HQ USAF, MAJCOM, NATO, coalition, or bi-lateral activities. - Preparing PPBE documentation to ensure it accurately articulates the current program. - Supporting the HAF review process- AFROC, JWCAs, DABs, Congressional cycle, ASPs, AFRBs, CSBs, GAO reports, etc. - Performing the Secretariat function for ASPs, AFRBs, and CSBs. - Reviewing and documenting MDR and FOIA requests. - Monitoring on-going studies, analyses, and developmental work relevant to weapon systems. - Supporting program-specific efforts like CONOPS development, CDD, CPD, IER, and requirements working groups. - Reviewing and providing data to assist in preparation for legislative hearings, program documentation, briefing packages and read-aheads, Congressional staffer visits, and other events to ensure an integrated and consistent Air Force position in response to Congressional questions, issues, and requests for information on assigned program/portfolio. - Handles confidential and classified (Secret/TS-SCI) information, correspondence, and communications. - Any other tasks closely associated with the performance of duties list above and as coordinated with the COR.