Teams at Tecolote Research, Inc.

Provides executive and office administration support for Space Force directorate leadership. Maintains records, schedules, correspondence, task assignments, suspense tracking, staff packages, personnel processing, travel, and action-status reporting. Manages calendars, conference rooms, MICT assessments, and personnel programs including awards, training, evaluations, and staffing. Requires strong familiarity with Air Force administrative procedures, Microsoft Office, TMT, DTS, and classified work environments.

Develops defense and space-system cost estimates, forecasts funding needs, builds quantitative cost models, analyzes uncertainty and risk, and presents findings to senior leaders. The role uses technical and historical data to support U.S. Space Force force design and investment decisions, documents estimates using GAO best practices, and performs data mining, algorithm development, modeling, simulation, and dashboard development. It also researches cost-estimating methodologies for emerging space missions.

Leads strategic planning and policy implementation for a U.S. Space Force acquisition organization. Develops acquisition strategies, plans, organizational concepts, visions, messaging, and portfolio-management improvements. Assesses technical, financial, morale, and enterprise integration impacts while creating analytically supported courses of action. Requires extensive government acquisition, space-program, program-management, strategic communications, and DoD policy experience.