IC Acquisition Program Management Expert; Intelligence Center Security Clearance

Position: IC Acquisition Program Management Expert (Intelligence Center) with Security Clearance
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If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. The Influence and Integration Department advances IC's enterprise priorities by translating policy intent into integrated, executable approaches across the Intelligence Community. The department supports IC's policy and mission integration efforts by shaping policy frameworks, strengthening governance and oversight, and guiding capability development that connects strategic direction to mission execution.

Through disciplined analysis, enterprise coordination, and sustained partnership, the department aligns policy, mission priorities, and analytic leadership to enable coherent implementation of modernization initiatives and reinforce the sponsor's role as the strategic leader of the IC.

Roles & Responsibilities :
The successful candidate for this position is an IC Acquisition Program Manager who combines strong foundations in space systems, systems engineering, technical analysis, and major systems acquisitions with hands-on experience supporting complex space and ground-related acquisitions. The IC Acquisition Program Manager will help our government sponsor establish, assess, and improve technical and programmatic approaches that support acquisitions across the Intelligence Community.

The candidate will play a critical role in shaping acquisition strategy, evaluating program execution, informing policy and governance, and providing senior leader decision support. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted technical advisor and may act as a primary point of contact for senior government sponsors. The candidate will be expected to develop clear, concise, and actionable deliverables; communicate complex technical concepts to senior decision makers;

and align acquisition and engineering approaches to enterprise-wide mission needs. The candidate should have hands-on experience in many of the areas specified below:
* Demonstrated working knowledge of and application of Intelligence Community acquisition policy, including the ICD 801 series
* Strong working knowledge of the General Defense Intelligence Program (GDIP) and experience supporting programs or acquisition efforts tied to National Intelligence Program (NIP) funding, mission priorities, and stakeholder coordination across the intelligence community and Department of War.

* Technical and analytical support to space and ground related acquisitions - including risk, schedule, and cost assessments - across the Intelligence Community.

* Development and assessment of acquisition strategies, technical plans, and programmatic blueprints.

* Continuous oversight of selected National Intelligence Program acquisitions and independent assessment of acquisition status, risks, and associated processes.

* Support to significant milestone events and movement of major system acquisitions through key schedule milestones.

* Translation of mission needs into acquisition recommendations, implementation plans, and senior leader decision support materials.

* Enterprise coordination that enables a Community-wide perspective to be incorporated throughout the acquisition cycle.

* Integration of acquisition and procurement initiatives to respond to the highest priority mission needs.

* Ability to work with technical and program teams to translate strategy, policy, and mission intent into executable acquisition approaches.

* Mission architecture analysis, including space, ground, transport, and user segment considerations.

* Sensor system performance assessment, including coverage, sensitivity, revisit, latency, and data quality tradeoffs.

* Requirements analysis, traceability, and technical baseline management across the acquisition lifecycle.

* Systems engineering support for concept development, alternatives analysis, integration, test, and transition to operations.

* Knowledge of satellite payloads, remote sensing systems, ground processing, and mission operations concepts.

* Cross-domain integration of space, airborne, terrestrial, and…