Systems Director - Department Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office Aerospace Corporation · Washington, DC

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.

The Systems Director
- Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office will fall within our Special Programs Division (SPD). They will lead the Aerospace teams providing technical expertise, engineering and acquisition support in the development and fielding of the highest priority cutting-edge war fighting capabilities, matrixing critical skills to the entire DAF-RCO portfolio. The Systems Director will also perform day-to-day management activities and be responsible for strategic customer engagement and Aerospace backplane activities.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility in Joint Base Anacostia Bolling, Washington, D.C.

• - Developing and executing an engagement and program portfolio development strategy to position Aerospace to provide a meaningful and growing impact to the DAF-RCO mission
• - Leading Aerospace teams providing technical and engineering support to DAF-RCO programs across all aspects of the engineering lifecycle from initial concept and architecture requirements development, through acquisition, test and operations
• - Leading and conducting independent technical assessments based on direct analysis, data, testing artifacts, acquisitions materials, strategic planning and other artifacts
• - Overseeing and conducting comprehensive risk analysis and impact assessments to enable fully informed government decisions across both technical and acquisitions domains
• - Providing program management functions within SPD including development of resource loaded plans to ensure Aerospace work products are properly scoped and executed within budget
• - Ensuring timely and quality reporting within Aerospace and to customers, both written and verbal, and other products as needed
• - Engaging across the entirety of the Aerospace enterprise to meet customer needs including leveraging labs, ETG in depth technical reach back and other program office support
• - Representing DAF-RCO’s point of view in Aerospace backplane communications
• - Hiring and developing staff, including cultivating Aerospace Engineering and Technology Group (ETG) support and other reach-back from across the…