Acquisition SME

Overview

Offering a broad range of information technology solutions, Arcticom, LLC provides network and systems administration, enterprise architecture and resource planning, certification and accreditation, software design, programming, maintenance of telecommunications and land mobile radio equipment and systems, help desk support and IT transformation services among other services. Arcticom offers impressive performance that is routinely recognized with exceptional ratings and commendations tied to installation successes.

Satisfied BSNC family customers include the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, Coast Guard, the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Agriculture, Interior, Homeland Security, the General Services Administration, the Defense Logistics Agency and the U.S Census Bureau.

About this position:
Acquisition Subject Matter Expert at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH

• Lead and support Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) alignment activities, identifying relevant business capabilities, processes, and opportunities for reuse of existing systems or services.
• Develop and support Business Process Reengineering (BPR) efforts, including documentation of as-is and to-be states
  , process improvement strategies, and alignment with commercial best practices.
• Prepare and support BPR Assertions and related certification artifacts required for Defense Business Systems funding approval.
• Advise customers on minimizing unnecessary customization and promoting commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and industry-standard solutions where feasible.
• Support completion of Clinger-Cohen Act statutory requirements
  , including planning and development of required analyses and documentation.
• Coordinate and contribute to CCA-related artifacts such as Acquisition strategies, Market research approaches, Economic analyses / lifecycle cost estimates, Cybersecurity strategies (in coordination with specialists), IT portfolio registration and compliance activities.
• Manage the iterative and non-linear nature of CCA compliance, sequencing deliverables appropriately across the acquisition lifecycle.
• Serve as a liaison between customers and governance bodies, including SAF Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Management Officer (CMO) communities.
• Engage regularly with oversight organizations to clarify expectations, address feedback, resolve compliance issues, and facilitate timely approvals.
• Prepare and deliver briefings for leadership, portfolio boards, and key stakeholders.
• Support programs that enter the process midstream by identifying gaps, remediating deficiencies, and realigning documentation to meet statutory and policy requirements.
• Develop, review, and refine acquisition and compliance documentation.
• Conduct market research across DoD components and external organizations to identify reuse opportunities and avoid duplicative investments.
• Provide expert review of customer-developed documentation and recommend updates required to pass milestone and portfolio reviews.
• Support change management and implementation planning
  , including rollout strategies, schedules, and adoption considerations.
• Balance time between independent analytical/documentation work and extensive collaboration
  , typically averaging a 50/50 mix of writing and stakeholder interaction.
• Operate effectively in environments with incomplete guidance, evolving policy, and organizational uncertainty
  .
• Apply professional judgment to determine the appropriate depth of analysis required—avoiding both unnecessary bureaucracy and compliance risk.

• Level of Experience Requirements:
• Must have 10+ years of experience in Acquisition
• Must have 10 years of Leadership experience with progressively higher responsibility in the public and/or private sector in the IT and/or consulting fields.

• Have experience with the Information Technology Acquisition process and its milestones and have experience in analyzing a variety of source documentation and supporting the creation of acquisition documentation. Acquisition Documentation refers specifically to documents created in compliance…