General Manager - Communications and Navigation Capabilities Division

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space— delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators.

Join us and take your place in space.

The Defense Systems Group (DSG) provides analysis‑based decision support to senior leaders on space architectures, policy and strategy, technology development, warfighter capability enablers, systems integration, defense industrial base, and threat reduction to help shape existing and future space missions across the national security space (NSS) enterprise. DSG is unique at Aerospace as it not only directly supports major customers, including the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Command, Air Force Material Command, and senior leadership at the Pentagon, but also provides a broad range of technical support across the national space enterprise, maintaining vertical responsibilities with customers’ portfolios as well as horizontal, matrixed responsibilities across the corporation.

Additionally, DSG provides deep technical expertise to the Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) in the conception, design, acquisition, launch and operations of satellite, launch vehicle, ground control, and range systems.

DSG is seeking a General Manager to lead, integrate, and deliver Aerospace technical expertise to the Space Systems Command (SSC) Program Executive Officer (PEO) for the MILSATCOM and PNT mission areas. The General Manager will lead the Communications and Navigation Capabilities Division (CNCD) and will report to the Vice President, Defense Space Acquisition (VP, DSA).

The CNCD General Manager will lead a major customer‑facing organization, providing acquisition leadership across a broad MILSATCOM and PNT portfolio of programs, delivering technical expertise and enterprise engineering and integration efforts across multiple space, ground, and user segments, as well as networks required to enable these critical national capabilities for our warfighters. This organization supports all aspects of the acquisition life cycle to include operations and product sustainment and has direct collaborative engagements with a broad industry and DoD stakeholder community for threat assessments and mitigation, architecture planning, research and technology investments, international partnerships, and incorporation of commercial capabilities into the hybrid warfighter architecture.

This geographically diverse team is primarily located at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, CA but has personnel located at Peterson Space Force Base, Schriever Space Force Base, and contractor facilities.

The selected candidate will be required to work full‑time, on‑site at our facility at Los Angeles Air Force Base.

• Provide strong leadership for division, developing and implementing division vision, strategy and objectives. Also includes setting expectations and direction, mentoring, providing feedback, succession planning, and coaching aimed at developing an agile and effective management team and technical staff.
• Role model Aerospace core values and leadership competency attributes with our workforce, customers, and mission partners.
• Establish trusted relationships with key senior leaders in within the immediate customer organization as well as across SSC, SpOC, and other relevant DoD stakeholder organizations.
• Lead from the front to influence customers and stakeholders to drive toward resilient integrated architectures that leverage commercial capabilities, international partnerships, and strategies for rapid fielding of capability. This role will require the leader to drive change to the status quo and question past ways of doing things.
• Position Aerospace to provide the highest value products to help our customers solve their most difficult problems.
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