Project Analyst IV

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Full Time Professionals Washington, DC, US

Project Analyst IV

Blackrock Strategy, Inc. | National Capital Region | Full-Time | On-Site

Travel: Approximately 40% or more combined CONUS and OCONUS travel is expected in support of test events, technology demonstrations, experimentation activities, government engagements, and mission priorities.

Clearance: An active Top Secret security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) access is required.

Location Requirement: This position is primarily on-site supporting government offices within the National Capital Region. Candidatesmust reside within, or be willing to relocate to, the National Capital Region to support recurring on-site customer and mission requirements.

About Blackrock Strategy

Blackrock Strategy, Inc. (BrS) provides engineering, operational, analytical, and technical services supporting the Department of War, Intelligence Community, and commercial customers. Our teams support test and evaluation, experimentation, systems integration, operational planning, rapid prototyping, and technology transition activities across a broad range of national security programs.

Position Overview

Blackrock Strategy is seeking an experienced Project Analyst IV to provide analytical and technical advisory support to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Prototypes and Experimentation (OUSD(R&E) P&E).

Supporting the Future Fires Capability Director, this position contributes to rapid prototyping efforts, capability assessments, experimentation activities, and research and development initiatives focused on delivering advanced lethality and effects capabilities to the joint warfighter.

The Project Analyst works alongside government leadership, military Service stakeholders, government laboratories, academia, and industry partners to translate complex operational requirements into actionable research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) recommendations. The position also supports portfolio investment decisions and the execution of high-priority research, prototyping, experimentation, and technology-transition initiatives.

The ideal candidate combines extensive operational expertise in munitions, explosives, energetics, weapons effects, or a related lethality discipline with demonstrated experience supporting Department of Defense RDT&E, science and technology portfolios, acquisition activities, and senior government decision-makers.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior analyst and technical advisor for lethality, munitions, energetics, and weapons-effects activities within the OUSD(R&E) P&E portfolio.
• Provide portfolio-management support for rapid prototyping and experimentation projects, including proposal reviews, technical evaluations, threat analyses, and funding-allocation recommendations.
• Develop and review acquisition and procurement documentation, including Statements of Work (SOWs), Technical Evaluations, and Independent Cost Estimates (ICEs).
• Coordinate test planning, experimentation events, data-collection activities, and after-action reporting supporting capability assessments and transition decisions.
• Track cost, schedule, performance, risks, milestones, and deliverables across assigned projects and initiatives.
• Develop executive briefings, technical analyses, decision papers, reports, and other analytical products for senior government leadership.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement across Department of Defense and Intelligence Community boards, councils, working groups, and other forums.
• Coordinate with military Services, government laboratories, academia, industry partners, and other stakeholders to align science and technology investments with joint warfighter operational requirements.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, prototype capabilities, and technical approaches to inform investment, experimentation, and transition decisions.
• Support transition planning to move successful prototype capabilities into acquisition programs, programs of record, and operational use.
• Provide analytical and technical recommendations supporting rapid prototyping, experimentation, capability development, and future lethality priorities.
• Perform other duties in support of customer and organizational objectives as assigned.

• 15+ years of combined military and Department of Defense contractor experience involving munitions, explosives, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), weapons effects, energetics, or a closely related lethality discipline.
• 5+ years of experience supporting Department of Defense Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E), Science and Technology (S&T) portfolio management, or Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) advisory activities.
• Demonstrated experience developing Statements of Work (SOWs), Technical…