Principal C5ISRT Operations and Policy

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MITRE’s Research & Advanced Capabilities Development (N223) Department seeks an accomplished, proactive individual capable of serving as an operational subject‑matter expert and strategic work shaper for MITRE’s work with government officials specifically focused on advancing technology solutions in the C5

ISRT (command, control, communications, computer, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting) mission space. The N223 department leverages MITRE’s broad and deep technical bench to identify, evaluate, and accelerate technology solutions to priority Warfighter mission needs, with a work portfolio spanning the core organizations within the Office of the Undersecretary of War for Research & Engineering:
Science & Technology, Critical Technologies, and Mission Capabilities.

This position would bring operational subject‑matter expertise in non‑kinetic and kinetic options intersecting with the C5

ISRT technical domain to assist MITRE projects with accelerating integration solutions to fill gaps. In addition, this individual is expected to work in collaboration with the government sponsors of our work and MITRE’s technical talent to identify and help shape MITRE work for the Department of War’s C5

ISRT mission needs, to include in contested environments in a diversity of operations and mission types. This can be through advancing specific solutions or developing and piloting processes and tools for advancing commercial technology solutions. The work will span operational efficacy evaluation, operational gap analysis, mission engineering, and aligning emerging war fighting systems to agile acquisition process.

Work is performed at a minimum at the TS/SCI level, and this position requires significant (50% or more) time in‑person in classified spaces at the MITRE site and/or government facilities in the Washington D.C. area.

• Being a MITRE interface to the government sponsors of the work: build/maintain trusted relationships with key government leaders and stakeholders.
• Leading by example: personally contribute to (or lead the development of) one or more high impact MITRE deliverables; maintain long‑term professional self‑development to become/remain a credible MITRE voice on C5
  
  ISRT operations and policy, and threats across a diversity of mission types
• Establishing high quality of MITRE deliverables, in consultation with the relevant MITRE project and N223 department leadership: ensure delivered products lead to successful, impactful government outcomes; review project deliverables and ensure appropriate peer review; and archive and appropriately share key deliverables.
• Bringing MITRE to bear for the project’s sponsors:
  Support relevant strategic initiatives of MITRE and the Division/Department; and build partnerships between your work and other MITRE work programs, including our internal research…