Maritime Robotics and Autonomous Systems; MRAS​/Science and Technology; S&T) Analyst

Responsibilities/Essential Duties

The Maritime Robotics and Autonomous Systems (MRAS) / Science and Technology (S&T) Analyst serves as the primary technical advisor, portfolio coordinator, and S&T liaison within the Expeditionary Assessments Branch (XAB), Capability Portfolio Manager Maritime Expeditionary Warfare (CPM MXW), reporting to the XAB Branch Head. The Analyst bridges the S&T community and MXW's product branches (Amphibious Warfare, Littoral Maneuver, Maritime Prepositioning, and Afloat C5I), identifying and assessing emerging technologies and autonomous capabilities to define how MXW integrates MRAS across the enterprise and improve war fighting effectiveness.

• Serve as the primary MXW liaison to naval and defense S&T, research, and innovation organizations, including the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab (MCWL), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and warfare centers.
• Translate operational challenges into technology requirements for S&T partners, ensuring requirements are clearly scoped and actionable.
• Maintain high situational awareness of emerging defense and industry capabilities relevant to maritime expeditionary warfare and autonomous systems.
• Build and sustain professional working relationships and communication channels with external S&T stakeholders to facilitate technology transition into the MXW portfolio.

• Support the development, execution, and continuous refinement of the MXW MRAS Roadmap.
• Capture and track active and emerging S&T autonomous initiatives across the maritime robotics and unmanned systems domain.
• Document tactical employment, experimentation, and lessons learned from operational units, to include Marine Littoral Regiments (MLRs) and Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs).
• Assess the technical, operational, and physical integration impacts of MRAS on MXW platforms, including Amphibious Warfare Ships, Medium Landing Ship, amphibious warfare type craft, and prepositioning hulls.
• Evaluate the operational impact of autonomous systems on the composition, capability, and tactical makeup of the Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU).
• Identify long-term capability, risk, and force structure implications for the Marine Corps associated with MRAS integration.

• Evaluate emerging robotics and unmanned systems (surface, subsurface, air, and ground) for operational relevance.
• Assess technical maturity of emerging systems using Technology Readiness Level (TRL) criteria.
• Analyze the integration feasibility of emerging autonomous technologies with existing and planned MXW platforms.

• Collaborate closely with MXW product branches (Amphibious Warfare, Littoral Maneuver, Maritime Prepositioning, and Afloat C5I) to identify platform integration constraints, including space, weight, power, cooling, and launch/recovery (SWaP-C) considerations.
• Ensure emerging autonomous systems can be practically deployed and employed from MXW vessels.
• Systematically define how MXW incorporates MRAS and emerging technologies across the entire enterprise.

• Support leadership participation in operational experiments, technical demonstrations, war games, and industry engagements (e.g., MCWL experiments and fleet exercises).
• Prepare concise summaries, technical observations, and actionable recommendations resulting from experimentation and exercise events.
• Inform division-level capability development decisions with experimentation and exercise results.

• Translate highly complex technical specifications, engineering concepts, and data trends into clear, operationally grounded briefings for senior Marine Corps leadership.
• Develop white papers and decision-support materials in support of MRAS and emerging technology initiatives.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to senior leadership, product branch stakeholders, and external S&T partners as required.

• Other duties as assigned.
• Supervisory Duties:
  None.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and 10-15 years of relevant experience is required. In lieu of a degree, 15+ years of substantive, relevant experience is applicable. Experience is a higher-level discriminator over educational…