Principal Acquisition Advisor; Intelligence Center) Security Clearance

Position: Principal Acquisition Advisor (Intelligence Center) with Security Clearance
At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We're a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation's health, security, and prosperity.

Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future. Our Geospatial Intelligence team provides skills and capabilities to task, order, receive, process, disseminate, and exploit national, tactical, and commercial Intelligence within an integrated architecture in support of Geospatial Intelligence users.

We support and enable the production of intelligence and situational awareness for national and warfighter security, targeting, command and control, and humanitarian aid. Our capabilities include requirements and mission workflow analysis for sensor platforms and ground systems, specialized computing platforms, architecture design and integration of data and systems in support of exploitation processes, advanced analytics, and integrated intelligence analysis from seabed to space.

Roles & Responsibilities :
The Geospatial Intelligence Department (N971) is seeking an Acquisition expert to support NGA's Acquisition Environment, specifically aligned to its Component Acquisition Executive (CAE) Role includes an extensive focus on complex organizational and acquisition efforts within an IC/DoW Combatant Command Support Agency at the executive agency level.

Responsibilities include:

* Lead transformation in how defense acquisition processes operate within existing statutory and regulatory frameworks. This role contributes acquisition process expertise that complements technical modernization leaders; and it includes streamlining governance, reducing friction across requirements, engineering, acquisition, and budgeting processes, and enabling adoption of modern acquisition approaches to facilitate continuous capability delivery.

* Shape and scale acquisition execution models across sponsor portfolios to better enable incremental capability delivery and continuous value realization.

* Advance acquisition approaches that improve software acquisition execution and enable interoperable, mission-ready capabilities across the Department of War.

* Influence governance structures, decision forums, and oversight approaches to align acquisition control mechanisms with modern engineering and delivery practices.

* Design practical execution architectures that integrate requirements, funding, contracting, engineering, test, and sustainment into synchronized delivery systems.

* Partner with engineering leaders to ensure acquisition strategies reinforce - rather than constrain - Dev Sec Ops , iterative development, and platform-based approaches.

* Reframe performance management from milestone completion toward measurable delivery outcomes.

* Identify systemic barriers within acquisition structures (organizational, financial, cultural, or procedural) and implement pragmatic transformation strategies that improve portfolio throughput.

* Guide sponsors in structuring acquisition pathways - including Software Pathway, hybrid models, and alternative contracting mechanisms - to accelerate transition from prototype to continuous capability delivery.

* Advise senior leaders on portfolio-level prioritization, sequencing, and risk trade-offs to improve capability delivery performance.

* Contribute to development of repeatable frameworks, playbooks, and reference models that can be applied across multiple sponsors to institutionalize modernization gains.

* Serve as a trusted advisor to program teams and senior leaders.

* Proactively help sponsors identify and shape modernization opportunities.

* Build and sustain trusted relationships across sponsors, FFRDC partners, industry, and academic stakeholders to support integrated modernization efforts.

* Serve as an active member of multidisciplinary teams integrating acquisition, engineering, and delivery expertise to improve capability outcomes.

Basic Qualifications:

* Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

* Demonstrated experience navigating or improving DoW acquisition processes in programs, portfolios, or enterprise settings.

* Working knowledge of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF), including the Software Acquisition Pathway, and related…