Chief Scientist - (TOP SECRET CLEARANCE) with Security Clearance

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Job description

Position Title: Chief Scientist - (TOP SECRET CLEARANCE) Position Start: December 30, 2024 (Pending Contract Award) Position Summary: MILVETS is currently seeking to fill a full time Chief Scientist - (TOP SECRET CLEARANCE) position. The Chief Scientist will be supporting the government at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. Responsibilities: Perform electronics engineering processes, procedures, and best practices.
Provide engineering expertise to activities such as development, testing, evaluating, training and configuration management in support of an acquisition program.
Provide engineering support on the transport and networking architecture focused on current and future tactical network capabilities.
Support design reviews and perform thorough, in-depth technical evaluations and assessments of network performance and architectures, to include support of risk assessments and integration strategies.
Support Capability Set (CS) and Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) activities.
Provide technical support to evaluate and integrate new technologies to modernize communications.
Effectively collaborate with organizations to include, but not limited to PEO C3T, other PMs and PdMs, ACM and other Army wide stakeholders and coordinate on interoperability considerations.
Review and understand acquisition documentation (e.g. mission needs statements, operational needs statements, Initial Capabilities Documents (ICDs), Capability Development Documents (CDDs), Capability Production Documents (CPDs), technical specifications, etc.) for Army tactical communications electronics and translate those requirements to support the development of technical solutions that are standards-based and cost efficient.
Review Government performance work statements and contractor proposals for technical accuracy and to ensure requirements are met.
Subject expert matter in:
• Experience in network engineering • Experience in designing and implementing LANs or VLANs • Experience with routing protocols, multicast, routing configurations, IPv4/IPv6 addressing, etc. • Experience with network protocol analysis using tools such as Sniffer or Wireshark • Experience with VMware • Knowledge of commercial communications equipment • Knowledge of transport and network architectures • Knowledge of end-to-end network design and performance • Knowledge of voice/data transmission and backbone networks • Knowledge of RF engineering • Knowledge of tactical communications electronics Qualifications: PhD in Enginering, Software Engineering, Network engineering or similar, Engineering Experience: A minimum of 15+ years of engineering experience (software/network, Satellite, RF engineering), to include at least 5 years PEO/PM level experience with Tactical Network Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; an Active United States Department of Defense Top Secret clearance is required.

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