Senior Business and Economics Principal; Infrastructure and Energy

Position Title:
Senior Business and Economics Principal (Infrastructure and Energy)

Location:
Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia

Category:
Funded

Schedule (FT/PT):
Full Time

Travel Required:
May require occasional domestic travel

Shift: Day

Remote Type:
In-Office

Clearance required:
Current Top Secret. Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility

Salary: $170,000 - $210,000

Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee‑owned company. We’ve served the Department of War (DoW) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us!

Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Business and Economics Principal to provide senior‑level project‑finance, infrastructure, energy, market, and investment analysis to the Director for Infrastructure and Energy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for the Defense Industrial Base (DASN (DIB)). The principal supports Department of the Navy (DON) efforts to assess how infrastructure and energy investments may strengthen shipyards, ports, manufacturing facilities, energy systems, logistics networks, and other critical infrastructure supporting defense production and industrial resilience.

This position requires a business and finance subject matter expert with demonstrated experience in infrastructure finance, energy markets, project finance, industrial economics, management consulting, corporate strategy, or comparable fields. The principal shall be capable of independently developing transparent and auditable project‑finance models; assessing complex capital projects, financing structures, and investment risks; and translating technical and financial findings into decision‑ready products for senior Department of the Navy, Department of War, industry, investor, utility, and inter‑agency stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct project‑finance, infrastructure, energy, market, and investment analysis in support of DASN (DIB) infrastructure and energy priorities.
• Assess how capital investment, financing structures, energy availability, infrastructure condition, logistics capacity, supply‑chain dependencies, and market conditions may affect defense production, industrial capacity, resilience, readiness, and sustainment.
• Develop business cases, cost‑benefit analyses, market assessments, project‑finance analyses, executive decision materials, stakeholder‑engagement products, and draft recommendations for Government consideration.
• Build, maintain, document, and update transparent and auditable project‑finance models supporting Government review of potential infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, logistics, shipyard, port, and facility‑recapitalization investments.
• Develop and analyze construction‑period and operating‑period cash‑flow models, capital expenditure requirements, operating expenses, financing structures, debt sizing, debt sculpting, debt‑service coverage ratios, loan‑life coverage ratios, repayment profiles, tariff structures, offtake arrangements, project returns, and sensitivity and downside scenarios.
• Analyze nonrecourse and limited‑recourse financing structures; debt capacity; capital structures; project revenue; financing assumptions; counter party considerations; and market, construction, operational, regulatory, supply‑chain, and investment risks.
• Research and analyze infrastructure developers, energy companies, utilities, lenders, investors, manufacturers, logistics providers, port operators, shipyards, contractors, and other market participants relevant to Government‑directed…