OUSW; R&E and DARPA Hypersonics Senior Technical Advisor

Amentum is a leading provider of engineering, scientific, and program management support services to some of the top agencies in the U.S. government, including the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW(R&E)), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Intelligence Community.

The USW(R&E) serves as the primary advisor to the Department of War (DoW) leadership on all matters pertaining to the Department's Research and Engineering (R&E) enterprise, technology development and transition, developmental prototyping, experimentation, and administration of testing ranges and activities. The USW(R&E) also serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Department and is tasked with the imperative mission of ensuring the continuous advancement of technology and innovation within the DoW enterprise.

As the CTO, the USW(R&E) advises the Secretary of War on all matters related to research, engineering, manufacturing, developmental test and evaluation, technology development, innovation, and protection activities and programs in the DoW and occurring internationally. Additional information on USW(R&E) is available here: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./

Amentum is seeking a Senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) to serve as a technical advisor to the Senior Official for Scaled Hypersonics within the OUSW(R&E). This SME role requires working on-site at the client location (Arlington, VA). Some travel (~25%), local as well as domestic, will be required. Annual salary range is between $250K-$300K, depending on qualifications and experience.

• Provide timely and accurate technical counsel to the Senior Official for Scaled Hypersonics, covering the breadth of technical disciplines and programs concerned with the development and demonstration of technologies and hypersonic flight systems. This enables an integrated understanding of the state of the United States Defense Hypersonic Enterprise.
  • Identify and monitor hypersonic research, development, test and evaluation activities across the hypersonic enterprise including DoW, NASA, Department of Energy (DoE), Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), academia, and industry
  • Identify and monitor hypersonic system development, demonstration and acquisition programs across the enterprise
  • Provide regular technical updates and assessments to the Senior Official for Scaled Hypersonics on technology development activities and system development programs to maintain PDH awareness of progress, problems, investment needs and opportunities
  • Recommend possible client actions to address problems and investment needs
• Provide hypersonic technology and system development technical counsel and guidance to R&E leadership, intelligence agencies, uniformed services, combatant commands and team members. Mentor team members in hypersonic technology and system development topics and support team taskings and actions. This delivers critical value to both the DoW, critical DoW stakeholders and the team.
  • Support the Senior Official for Scaled Hypersonics in meetings with senior DoW, USW(R&E), service, and COCOM leadership to provide technical counsel and perspectives on US hypersonic technology and system development
  • Support the intelligence community's efforts to assess foreign hypersonic technology and system development activities
  • Collaborate with team members to address taskings issued to the Scaled Hypersonics office, providing technical assessments and expertise to support those taskings
  • Support the planning and execution of national hypersonic technical meetings
  • Accept and execute taskings as directed by the Senior Official for Scaled Hypersonics and the Office Operations Manager
• Support the Senior Official for Scaled Hypersonics in the development and assessment of new initiatives and investments to advance hypersonic technology and system development in accordance with the primary goals and priorities as outlined in the Hypersonic Strategic Approach. This will…