Surveillance Engineer NA - Security Clearance

Position: Surveillance Engineer NA -122.3 with Security Clearance
The Air-Delivered Weapons Division, NA-122.3, has an immediate need for a full-time individual
to provide technical and programmatic support to the Air-Delivered Weapons Federal Program
Manager, as well as liaison with other Defense Programs (DP) and National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA) organizations associated with Air-Delivered Weapons. The individual
will coordinate with NNSA Federal and Management and Operating engineers and other
technical staff and programmatic staff as well as Department of War (DoW) personnel to
support the Air-Delivered Weapons Surveillance Program. The Air-Delivered Weapons surveillance activities provide data to evaluate the condition of the
stockpile in support of annual assessments of safety, security, reliability, and performance. The
Surveillance program has six (6) goals:
1. Identify defects (e.g., from manufacturing, design, and adversary exploitation) that
affect safety, security, performance, or reliability.
2. Identify and associate possible failure mechanisms to surveillance measurements and
then judge the risks to safety, security, and performance based on the surveillance data.
3. Calculate the margins between design requirements and performance at the
component and material levels.
4. Identify age-related changes and trends at the subsystem or component and material
levels.
5. Further develop capabilities for predictive assessments of stockpile components and
materials.
6. Provide critical data for the semiannual (May and November) Weapons Reliability
Report and the annual Report on Stockpile Assessments.
The Surveillance program components are the (1) Stockpile Evaluation program and the (2)
Enhanced Surveillance subprogram. The Stockpile Evaluation program conducts surveillance
evaluations of both the existing stockpile and newly refurbished LEP weapons (using REST
- Retrofit Evaluation System Test selections). The Enhanced Surveillance subprogram provides
the diagnostics, processes, and other tools needed by the Stockpile Evaluation program to
predict and detect initial or age‐related defects, assess reliability, and estimate component and
system lifetimes. Surveillance evaluation activities include system-level flight tests, laboratory tests,
development of new capabilities, and analysis activities.
 Knowledge of the Surveillance Program process and requirements per NNSA-DP
Business Process System requirements.
 System level flight tests are conducted jointly with the Air Force. Newly produced
weapons or those returned from the stockpile are disassembled, and their non-nuclear
components, along with surrogate parts for the nuclear components, are used to build a
joint test assembly (JTA), which is delivered to the DOD for flight testing.
 Some JTAs contain extensive telemetry instrumentation, while others contain high
- fidelity mock nuclear assemblies to recreate the mass properties of War Reserve
weapons as closely as possible. These JTAs are flown on the respective DOD delivery
platform to gather information to assess the effectiveness and reliability of both the
weapon and the launch or delivery platform, as well as the associated crews and
procedures.
 Stockpile laboratory tests at the subsystem or component level assess major assemblies
and components and, ultimately, the materials that compose the components (e.g.,
metals, polymers, glasses, plastics, ceramics, foams, electronics, optics, and explosives).
 Enhanced surveillance activities include identification and development of needed
diagnostics, processes, and other tools to predict and detect initial or age‐related
defects, assess reliability, and estimate component and system lifetimes.
In this role, the individual will coordinate with the following individuals/groups:
Air-Delivered
Weapons division personnel;
Surveillance Integrated Requirements Working Group (first-level
leadership); NA-12 Senior Technical Advisor for Surveillance (STAS); B61-12 Program Managers
at the Design/Production Agencies; and all Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) site surveillance
Program Managers. The individual will help to provide a comprehensive, coordinated approach
to successfully managing and executing Air-Delivered Weapons…