Strategic Advisor - Space Domain Awareness

Position Summary: Odyssey Systems has an exciting new opportunity for a Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Strategic Advisor supporting the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Division in the US Space Force, Space and Missile Systems Center’s Special Programs Directorate (USSF SMC/SPG).
Responsibilities: The SDA Strategic Advisor will support architecture integration, external stakeholder engagement, and will assist in the creation of strategic outreach products used to communicate the SDA Division’s vision and strategic initiatives throughout the SDA community. In addition, the SDA Strategic Advisor will assist to coordinate and execute special interest projects across the Division. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Identify, support, and manage inter-organizational collaborations; support the Government by making recommendations to the Government on management processes during development, improvements, and optimization of the Division’s efforts across the USSF, DoD, and Intelligence Community (IC)
• Communicate proactively and effectively across internal and external organizations to identify and implement critical solutions, identify, mitigate and resolve inter-organizational challenges while respecting and supporting differing organizational points of view, agendas, and equities
• Interface with industry, FFRDCs, and other DoD and IC stakeholders to bring state-of-the-art capabilities into the SDA environment and provide technical leadership to evaluate those capabilities
• Work proactively with the Government; contribute technically sound and practical advice to stakeholders on subjects of Space Domain Awareness architectures, requirements, capabilities, and systems
• Support planning and execution of organizational and system elements during definition, development, acquisition, modification, upgrade, and sustainment of the portfolio
• Participate in trade studies to support the selection of preferred design solutions, commercial hardware or software components, and preferred course of action alternatives in project development/system delivery
• Develop, plan, and implement strategies and analysis for technology demonstrations, prototyping, and system test and evaluation activities
• Participate in requirements development; ensure requirements are complete; appropriate, and verifiable; coordinate on test plan development; support verification activities with SMC/SPG contractors and stakeholders
• Support the Pivot SDA team to develop operational metrics for Space Domain Awareness effectiveness and mission performance
• Develop, analyze, review and provide recommendations to Government requirements, proposed solutions, potential execution activities
• Research and engage as an analyst providing positions, courses of actions and making recommendations in support of the US Space force and integrated Space Domain Awareness stakeholder community
• Interact with senior business and military personnel within the team, branch, and division as well as with external stakeholders throughout the Space Domain Awareness enterprise
• Conduct rapid research, write analysis, and reports in support of US Space Force positions; assist the Government to vet and prioritize requirements and capabilities
• Travel to CONUS and OCONUS locations upon government direction
• Other duties as required/requested by the Government and within the constraints of the S3 contract

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering, Policy, Business, or a related discipline with 10 or more years of experience supporting commercial, civil, or national defense space organizations or teams
  • 15 or more years of experience with 10 or more must be work directly supporting DoD and/or Intelligence Community (IC) Space Systems Acquisition, Operations, or Sustainment preferred
• Self-starter with demonstrated ability to communicate professionally across integrated DoD, IC, Contractor, and Industry community and to work autonomously across the community while respecting various agency points of view and equities
• Active TS/SCI clearance, amenable to polygraph
• Must be able to travel as required

Additional Information:

• This position is located at Peterson AFB. Work is performed at Peterson AFB and Schriever AFB in Colorado Springs with up to 25% travel.

#LI-MN1Company Overview: Odyssey Systems Consulting Group, is an innovative small business committed to providing world-class technical, management, and training support services to government and public sector clients. We focus on people, processes, and performance to deliver superior results. Since our inception in 1997, our commitment to mission success and customer satisfaction has been recognized with exponential growth and exceptional past performance ratings. We accept challenging assignments and drive projects from the planning stages, through implementation, and into operations and support.
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