Data Links & Comm Engineer

Overview

Data Links and Comm Engineer

LOCATION:

Hanscom AFB, Bedford MA

Salary Range: $150-$160,000 Annually

JOB STATUS:
Full-time

CLEARANCE:
Secret

CERTIFICATION: n/a

TRAVEL:
Limited, as needed

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Data Links and Comm Engineer located at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, MA to support program objectives.

• Must be a US citizen
• Must have an active Secret Clearance
• Master s or Doctorate Degree in a related field and at least 20 years of experience in the respective technical / professional discipline being performed, 12 years of which must be in the DoD
• OR, Bachelor s Degree in a related field and 25 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, 15 years of which must be in the DoD
• OR, 30 years of directly related experience with proper certifications as described in the PWS labor category performance requirements, 20 years of which must be in the DoD.

Duties include but not limited to:

• Provides knowledge and experience in the development, integration, testing, and deployment of Air Force systems and their associated data links to include definition of data link interoperability, interfaces, and verification and test assessment requirements. This includes interfacing with the Federal, DoD, USAF, United States Army, and Joint communities to ensure the data link communications capability complies with the applicable Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DISA, NSA, Service Acquisition Executive, Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS), Damage Assessment and Casualty Report business and technical rules.
• The Contractor shall provide resources with knowledge and experience in Developmental and Operational Test and Evaluation at the sub-system and system level. This includes interface with ACC, Air Force Command and Control Integration Center, Joint Interoperability Test Command, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, and all levels of the organizations that develop and manage the Command, Control and Communications (C3) and encryption key distribution infrastructure for controlling a networked system, providing technical advice on C4 issues, including pre-launch conditioning and planning, aircraft-weapon pre- and post-release communications and real-time targeting.
• The Contractor shall advise and assist the staff Engineers, IPT members, Program Managers (PMs), and joint combined test team customers on performance, schedule, and cost issues with respect to planning, communications, and control.
• The Contractor shall provide knowledge and experience in the specific areas of:
  • Tactical Platform Open Mission Systems Architectures, hardware/software processing environments, and limits of current Open Mission Systems. Contributes to Configuration Control Working Group (CCWG)/Online Charging System (OCS)/Government Reference Architecture.
  • Enterprise communications activities (e.g., Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DyNAMO/Comat Cloud); contributes to Interagency Electronic Reporting System (IERs), CCWG/OCS, Platform GIG integration requirements.
  • BLOS Waveforms, specifically AEHF/WGS but also cognizant of Protected Tactical Waveform and Civil waveforms like Iridium/Inmarsat. They need to understand network characteristics, how the links work, what ground infrastructure is needed to support (e.g., DISA), and contributes to OCS, BLOS requirements.
  • J-Series and UCI message sets/schema and protocols, interoperability needs. Contributes to CCWG/OCS, ICDs, IERs, and DoDAF products.
  • Communications Planning for Tactical Platforms. Serves as JMPS office liaison. Contributes to OCS, DoDAF Products.
  • Support agile communications initiative and activities.
  • Combat Net Radio (CNR): includes defining and documenting a set of CNR networking parameter configurations to be used by USAF weapon systems and controllers that will provide the best balance between flexible implementation of capability and implementation impact on both existing controllers and emerging weapon systems.
  • Test and Demonstration includes engineering support for interoperability testing weapon configurations with Threshold and Objective launch…