Sr Technical Acquisition Support Specialist

Overall Assignment Description:  

• Provide technical and management support to TF engineering and planning efforts.  

• Serves as a member of the IPT teams that provides strategic and operational studies, program and system planning, architecture engineering/design, and conduct development test and transition.   

Duties include: 

Specific tasks:  

-Engineering Support: 

• Develop and maintain the architecture and implementation plans. 

• Support development of TF office visions, studies, pilots, and prototypes. 

• Provides technical advice on:  

• Existing and planned programs; functions and services. 

• Existing and planned research and prototype efforts; functions and services. 

• Existing and emerging geospatial technologies. 

• Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) design principles and SOA processes. 

• Develop and maintain detailed architectures and plans to include: 

• Data Synchronization (DS). 

• Data Migration (DM). 

• Unstructured Information Management (UIM). 

• Relational Data Management (RDM). 

• Map Data Administration (MDA). 

• Feature Data Management (FDM). 

• Knowledge Management and Mining (KMM). 

 Coordination, Meetings and Program Management Support  

• Provides a view of the TF office data holdings and service connections. 

• Provides a Concept of Operations (CONOPs). 

• Prepares for and participates in TEM’s: 

• Perform technical assessments. 

• Prepare functional and service views. 

• Prepare briefings and white papers. 

• Provides inputs to Implementation Plans. 

• Participates in program acquisition process (source selection advisor, document preparation).  

Skills and Experience: 

Required: 

• A Bachelor's Degree or higher in Systems Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or other related scientific or technical discipline.  

• Demonstrated experience in direct support to acquisition projects. 

(U) Desired: 

• Familiar with NGA acquisition planning processes. 

• Understand SOA. 

• Familiar with IC Cloud based network/architecture functionality. 

• Understand the geospatial intelligence mission and its contributions to the IC. 

• Understand geospatial data and products.  

• Understand geospatial production and exploitation systems. 

• Familiar with emerging geospatial technologies and standards. 

• Familiar with data-centric architectures as well data and semantic modeling.