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Senior Defense Technologist – Special Activities
Modern Technology Solutions Incorporated
Arlington, USA
Full-time
Senior Level
Onsite
USD 180000-210000 yearly
Discovered 1 months ago
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- You are a strategic thinker who thrives on solving complex problems that have far-reaching impacts across defense campaigns.
- You are a collaborative leader who excels at building partnerships and influencing high-level decision-makers across the DoW enterprise.
- You possess a technical curiosity and enjoy combining operational expertise with innovative research to push the boundaries of what's possible.
- You're a results-oriented innovator who can adapt rapidly to shifting priorities while maintaining focus on delivering mission-critical outcomes.
- You have a passion for national security and want your work to directly contribute to advancing military capabilities and protecting the nation.
- Strategic Program Development: Lead planning and development for technical projects with high strategic importance. Rely on your expertise to tackle unique problems, address campaign objectives, and influence major DoW programs.
- Broader Campaign Assessments: Integrate advanced warfare technologies into studies evaluating operational effectiveness. Create solutions designed to deliver impact across coordinated joint and interagency campaign plans.
- Technology Transition: Assess engineering feasibility for novel systems and utilize your experience in program transitions to ensure readiness for operational fielding.
- Multi-Domain Collaboration: Work alongside Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, and other DoW organizations to advance capability development and shape investment strategies.
- R&D Leadership: Conceive and execute research studies combining operational expertise with innovative technology approaches, ensuring solutions meet the demands of dynamic operating environments and future challenges.
- Trusted Partnership: Build collaborative relationships across defense stakeholders to ensure goals are aligned, timelines are realistic, and the resulting capabilities provide measurable impact.
- Effective Communication: Generate support documentation (e.g., scenario, background, order of battle).
- Conducting campaign-level assessments to evaluate military effectiveness and develop engineering approaches.
- Supporting technical efforts from concept development through operational deployment for high-priority DoW capabilities.
- Collaborating with Joint Staff, Combatant/Functional Commands, and other stakeholders across the defense enterprise.
- Required: Master’s degree in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Desired: Doctoral/Terminal degree in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Demonstrated knowledge of program transition efforts and familiarity with transitioning technologies into joint force structures.
- Background in working with Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, and/or military services to integrate capabilities into campaign planning.
- Joint/Combatant Command staff experience (highly preferred).
- An active Top Secret (TS) security clearance (with SCI and SAP/CAP eligibility) is required.
About Modern Technology Solutions Incorporated
IT Services & Consulting2681 employeesFounded 1993
Engineering services and technology solutions for national security.
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