Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) Center of Excellence Capability Area Lead

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space— delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space. Do you have passion and experience for helping senior leaders make better data driven decisions to improve acquisition outcomes? Do you like solving multiple problems and exploring novel ideas? Do you enjoy driving analysis/analytical products that influence decision makers on strategic national security challenges and draw engagement/visibility from senior stakeholders, including the White House, Congress, the US Department of War (DoW), and Intelligence Community? Do you want to lead a highly motivated and capable team that plays an increasingly particularly pivotal role at a time of unprecedented change in the Space enterprise? If so, join our team of Space acquisition and analysis experts at Aerospace. In an era of dynamic change in space, Aerospace is addressing a once in a generation set of complex challenges as the Space ecosystem undergoes rapid and unprecedented evolution. The Aerospace Corporation operates the only federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) committed exclusively to the space enterprise. Our technical experts span every discipline of space-related science and engineering. Join our team and thrive in a career that matters to the world and to you personally. The Acquisition Planning and Decision Analytics (APDA) department delivers acquisition and systems engineering expertise and data-driven capability enablers to improve decision making to enable effective acquisition planning and deliver successful acquisition outcomes. We enable decision makers to understand and navigate an increasingly dynamic, complex and evolving Space ecosystem while preserving options and driving down risk to ensure mission success. Aerospace invites highly qualified candidates to apply to be the APDA NGSO center of excellence Capability Area lead in support of our warfighters. This position requires a dynamic and collaborative leader with a demonstrated record of successfully providing technical leadership in a large, matrixed engineering organization with considerable expertise in the business and systems engineering activities associated with system acquisition, deployment, and sustainment to program offices across the acquisition spectrum including traditional and non-traditional contract structures, traditional and new-entrant suppliers as applied to Department of War operational missions and support. The department is geographically dispersed with the majority of personnel centered in Northern Virginia or Southern California. The position can be executed out of any of Aerospace’s facilities.**What You’ll Be Doing** - Work across Aerospace to develop solutions that enable enterprise mission success, deliver technical excellence, people excellence, and operational excellence with an emphasis on successfully delivering space capabilities to warfighters to close critical operational mission gaps quickly and agilely. - Perform & lead technical or analysis tasks, including hands on development, development of roadmaps and strategies to close technical gaps to integrate commercial and traditional space capabilities, assessments of commercial offerings and plans to accelerate delivery of capability to warfighters while balancing competing priorities and navigating policy, political, budget and cost constraints. - Advise senior customers and stakeholders on successful planning and risk mitigation to enable successful and timely deployment of integrated sp…