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Supports operational efficiency and cost-reduction initiatives, manages First Article Inspection priorities, analyzes manufacturing and supply chain bottlenecks, tracks on-time delivery metrics, conducts look-ahead reviews, and drives process improvements in sustainment operations. The intern collaborates with operational program managers and cross-functional teams while supporting root-cause and corrective-action activities.

Leads Operations program performance for an advanced electronic warfare development program. Responsibilities include monitoring quality, schedule, cost, and baseline performance; tracking budgets and estimates at completion; presenting operational and financial data; coordinating cross-functional teams; improving processes; supporting supply chain planning and execution; and providing direction to stakeholders and leadership.

Leads operations performance for countermeasure and electronic warfare programs, managing quality, schedule, cost, scope, budget, and execution against baseline plans. Presents operational data, cost positions, estimates at completion, and variance explanations to leadership. Coordinates cross-functional teams, supports project meetings, improves processes, manages supply chain planning and execution, and promotes teamwork across program functions.

Leads ship repair projects from planning through completion, managing schedules, budgets, safety, quality, production, subcontractors, and cross-functional teams. Communicates contract requirements, monitors project performance, prepares reports, coordinates ship checks and production schedules, resolves execution issues, and ensures compliance with NAVSEA, USCG, ABS, OSHA, and customer requirements. The role supports Navy and commercial maritime projects and coordinates continuity across multiple shifts.

Lead software requirements management and Agile schedule oversight for the SACCS acquisition program. Translate Air Force operational needs into software specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria; coordinate development, testing, integration, and fielding across AFGSC, Hill AFB, Offutt AFB, and contractors. Manage stakeholder communications, transition planning, software lifecycle activities, and timeline risks while supporting modernization of nuclear command, control, and communications systems.

Leads technical capture strategy and solution architecture for complex space ground enterprise programs. Partners with business development, capture, and engineering teams to shape requirements, develop winning architectures, lead proposal technical volumes and presentations, manage industry teaming, engage government customers, and support business planning. Designs resilient, cloud-native, multi-mission ground systems supporting satellite command and control, TT&C, mission planning, and data processing. Requires extensive space acquisition or operations experience and active Top Secret clearance.

Develop and manage integrated master schedules, performance measurement baselines, proposal schedules, and schedule reports for defense programs. Analyze schedule risk using Monte Carlo simulations, critical path analysis, variance assessments, and predictive performance analysis. Support Integrated Baseline Reviews, phase and gate reviews, DCMA audits, and schedule compliance. Present findings to program leadership, identify risks and opportunities, recommend mitigation actions, and coordinate planning across finance, engineering, manufacturing, integration, quality, customers, and suppliers.

Leads engineering activities for defense electronic warfare and countermeasure programs. Responsibilities include strategic planning, proposal support, engineering staffing, integrated plans, technical team leadership, risk management, project execution, requirements and budget oversight, and collaboration with program managers, customers, subcontractors, and factories. The role also leads multidisciplinary hardware development projects and ensures technical solutions meet affordability and producibility requirements.

Manages technical planning and execution for the SLCM-N program, overseeing cost, schedule, scope, risk, engineering assessments, reviews, deliverables, and performance baselines. Leads a 20+ person engineering workforce, supports hiring and development, and partners with senior U.S. Navy, research, and industry stakeholders. The role develops estimates and work breakdown structures, ensures technical and quality requirements are met, manages customer performance, and delivers actionable assessments, reports, and solutions across complex systems-of-systems programs.

Manage multiple defense R&D programs from initiation through execution, ensuring cost, schedule, technical, quality, profitability, and customer objectives are met. Develop plans, milestones, staffing models, risk contingencies, and proposals; coordinate cross-functional teams and customer and supplier relationships; apply lifecycle management, defense contract knowledge, and Earned Value Management. The role is fully onsite, supports teams in New Hampshire and Virginia, and may develop into people management.