Sr. Program Manager - Acquisition Support - Environmental Monitoring

Job Information

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Category:
Systems Engineer

Required Security Clearance: TS/SCI (SSBI)

Type:
Full-Time

Job Location s: US-VA-Chantilly | US-CO-Colorado Springs | US-CA-El Segundo

Stellar Solutions, a nationally recognized Great Place To Work, delivers engineering solutions across commercial space and national security missions—from innovative new entrants to established space systems organizations.

We bring talented, energetic, and immediately productive professionals to meet critical customer needs in systems engineering and integration, mission operations, program management, and strategic planning—helping teams deliver resilient capability to the mission with speed, quality, and focus.

Stellar Solutions is seeking a Senior Program Manager & Acquisition Support professional to support a proposed Space-Based Sensing and Tracking (SBST) enterprise, with emphasis on Environmental Monitoring and related sensing capabilities. This role provides senior acquisition execution, program integration, systems engineering, and advisory support to government customers advancing future sensing capabilities across Environmental Monitoring, radar/RF sensing, SAR, AMTI, GMTI, mission‑data transport, ground processing, and related space‑based sensing efforts.

The position is designed for a hands‑on senior advisor who helps the government keep development efforts, prime contractors, technical teams, schedules, risks, acquisition milestones, and decision packages on track. Rather than serving as the day‑to‑day program manager for a single operational program, this role supports future‑development and pre‑acquisition efforts by helping turn mission needs into executable acquisition and technical plans, preparing programs for key decisions, and driving disciplined follow‑through across government and industry stakeholders.

• Provide senior acquisition‑support, program integration, and technical advisory assistance to government customers developing and maturing space‑based sensing and tracking capabilities.
• Help government program offices plan, organize, and execute future‑development and pre‑acquisition activities, including acquisition strategy, requirements maturation, market research, RFP development, source‑selection support, and transition to formal acquisition pathways.
• Coordinate across government leadership, program managers, systems engineers, acquisition personnel, prime contractors, subsystem teams, FFRDCs, advisory partners, and mission stakeholders to resolve programmatic issues consistent with cost, schedule, performance, and mission objectives.
• Assist with development, review, and integration of program plans, acquisition schedules, integrated master schedules, risk registers, technical‑review packages, milestone decision materials, briefings, and executive decision products.
• Support preparation of Statements of Work, Performance Work Statements, CDRLs, evaluation criteria, technical specifications, requirements documents, acquisition strategies, and contractor‑executable direction.
• Help assess contractor and developer progress, identify execution risks and dependencies, track action closure, and support recovery planning for schedule, technical, integration, or readiness challenges.
• Provide program‑office support for requirements definition, system and ground‑segment integration, interface coordination, verification planning, test readiness, and transition planning as needed to inform acquisition decisions.
• Assist government leadership in evaluating technical alternatives, contractor approaches, program maturity, affordability, schedule realism, and readiness to proceed through acquisition and development milestones.
• Coordinate acquisition and execution activities across space, ground, data processing, mission‑data transport, exploitation, dissemination, and operational‑user dependencies.
• Support program reviews, working groups, integrated product teams, requirements reviews, risk boards, source‑selection activities, technical interchange meetings, and senior‑leader engagements.
• Prepare clear, decision‑quality reports, briefings, spreadsheets, issue papers, action trackers, and…