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Mainsail Group is recruiting for a Senior Data Links and Communication Engineer to join our team at Hanscom AFB, MA. Our positions support the United States Air Force in a long-term contractor role with the following duties:
The Contractor shall have the following knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience in performing all tasks defined below:
•Provides knowledge and experience in the development, integration, testing, and deployment of Air Force systems and their associated Data Links to include definition of data link interoperability, interfaces, and verification and test assessment requirements. This includes interfacing with the Federal, Department of Defense (DoD), United States Air Force (USAF), United States Army, and Joint communities to ensure the data link communications capability complies with the applicable Federal Aviation Administration, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Service Acquisition Executive, Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS), Damage Assessment and Casualty Report business and technical rules.
•The Contractor shall provide resources with knowledge and experience in Developmental and Operational Test and Evaluation at the sub-system and system level. This includes interface with Air Combat Command, Air Force Command and Control Integration Center, Joint Interoperability Test Command, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, and all levels of the organizations that develop and manage the C3 and encryption key distribution infrastructure for controlling a networked system, providing technical advice on C4 issues, including pre-launch conditioning and planning, aircraft-weapon pre- and post-release communications, and real-time targeting.
•The Contractor shall advise and assist the staff Engineers, Integrated Product Team (IPT)members, Program Managers (PMs), and joint combined test team customers on performance, schedule, and cost issues with respect to planning, communications, and control.
The Contractor shall provide knowledge and experience in the specific areas of:
• Tactical Platform Open Mission Systems (OMS) Architectures, HW/SW processing environments, and limits of current OMS. Contributes to CCWG/OCS/Government Ref Architecture.
• Enterprise communications activities (e.g., DARPA/DyNAMO/Comat Cloud) Contributes to IERs, CCWG/OCS, Platform GIG integration requirements.
• Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) Waveforms, specifically AEHF/WGS but also cognizant of PTW and Civil waveforms like Iridium/Inmarsat. They need to understand network characteristics, how the links work, what ground infrastructure is needed to support (e.g., DISA), and contribute to OCS, BLOS requirements.
• J-Series and UCI message sets/schema and protocols, interoperability needs. Contributes to CCWG/OCS, ICDs, IERs, and DoD AF products.
• Communications Planning for Tactical Platforms. Serves as Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) office liaison. Contributes to OCS, DoD AF Products.
• Support agile communications initiative and activities.
• Combat Net Radio (CNR): includes defining and documenting a set of CNR networking parameter configurations to be used by Air Force (AF) weapon systems and controllers that will provide the best balance between flexible implementation of capability and implementation impact on both existing controllers and emerging weapon systems.
• Test and Demonstration includes engineering support for interoperability testing weapon configurations with Threshold and Objective launch platforms/controllers and ground Joint Terminal Attack Controllers over Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) CNR and Link 16 communications.
• Joint Concept of Employment (CONEMP): includes developing, documenting, and presenting a Joint CONEMP that is vetted by Combatant Commands and responsible for Department of Defense (DoD)/Joint Chiefs of Staff/Service agencies is flexible and scalable across conflict intensity and Joint/single-service command architectures, supports third-party targeting and handoff of control, is compatible with communications via Military tactical data exchange network such as LINK-16 and UHF/CNR, is aligned with weapon and controller system capabilities, and is transferrable to warfighter training environments.
• Cryptologic Systems: includes the development of a Joint approach whereby Communication Security (COMSEC) cryptologic data can be passed from its source to weapons and controllers.
• Link 16 Networking: includes developing and documenting Joint Service approaches for integrating weapons into existing tactical data link (TDL) environments that support effective weapon capability across a broad range of warfare intensity and force architectures, while minimizing negative impact on existing users and usage of those environments.
•Interface Control: includes completing the development and documentation of Link-16J11.X messages within the construct of a Joint Service Configuration management (CM)strategy that will maintain interoperability between weapon systems and controllers while supporting a flexible CONEMPS, allowing for rapid, responsive evolution of the weapon system capability.
Implementation: includes defining and documenting specifications for network-enabled weapon systems, Threshold and Objective launch/control aircraft, and ground control systems (e.g., the F-15E, F-35 B&C, the USAF Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) Close Air Support System and the United States Marine Corps Target Location Designation Handoff System) to ensure Link-16J11.X message interoperability with applicable weapon systems.
MAINSAIL Group is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of any legally protected characteristic including, but not limited to, race, color, religion, national origin, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, ancestry, age, medical condition, military veteran status or on the basis of physical handicap which, with reasonable accommodation, render the application to satisfactorily perform the job available.
