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DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:

MITRE’s Agile and Resilient Battle Management Division (N170) is seeking an experienced, motivated leader to assume the Department Manager (DM) role for N172 – Resilient Comms. The DM will be responsible for managing and growing a team of work class talent, developing the department strategy, setting Department technical direction and quality, supporting development of new opportunities, and building partnerships and collaborative relationships across MITRE, our sponsors, industry, and academia.

The N172 Department is focused on improving modernized and advanced heterogeneous, tactical aerial and space communications and networking systems for resilient communications in contested environments. The Challenge is to provide DoD and Coalition systems secure, robust, adaptable connectivity and networking in permissive, contested and highly contested environments with a Strategic Focus on:

• Ensuring SATCOM and Tactical communication solutions meets platform mission requirements
• Developing advanced communications and networking concepts
• Performing Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A), Operational Analysis (OA), Prototyping, Experimentation and Testing to inform Communication and Networking decisions
• Ensuring interoperability across DoD and Coalition partners
• Developing system of systems architectures to enable concepts
• Transitioning capabilities through modern acquisition processes

In partnership with the Division’s Managing Director (MD) and Project Leaders (PLs), the DM will develop and maintain close working relationships with sponsor leadership. Moreover, the DM will provide technical domain-specific knowledge, leadership and influence, internally and externally, across multiple stakeholders to drive mission outcomes. To address evolving priorities, the DM will develop and shape a work program to achieve sponsor strategic outcomes. The DM will also execute effective talent acquisition, team member mentorship, and performance management across N172. Additionally, the Department Manager will ensure MITRE cultural attributes, speed, risk-taking, adaptability, collaboration, grace and respect, are foundational to the Department’s culture.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 10 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 7 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• A strong leadership presence and demonstrated thought leadership.
• A demonstrated knowledge of Communications and Networking, systems engineering, processes, and tools
• Proven track record in making technical contributions including work shaping to meet sponsor needs.
• Experience creating and leading technical strategies to increase the impact of outcomes.
• Experience driving innovation into the work program by leveraging R&D, facilitating engagement between researchers and relevant sponsors, and overseeing the transition of research results to sponsors to address mission outcomes.
• Proven Track record of partnering with organization (e.g., internal, academia, industry) to ensure capabilities and platforms are strategically leveraged in the execution of programs.
• Experience in shaping the workforce and skill mix to develop the technical capabilities of the staff to include high quality hires capable of technical impact and growth.
• Excellent communication skills in articulating complex topics to sponsors and staff.
• Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Solid understanding of multiple of the following areas: Communications, Networking, Tactical Comms, SATCOM, Operational Analysis, Modeling and Simulation, Complex Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering
• TS/SCI and/or SAP accesses

Strategy Development

• Develop and implement the Department strategy aligned with Division, Center, and sponsor priorities
• Identification of new technical areas where MITRE is either uniquely positioned or has an opportunity to provide innovative capabilities and mission impact
• Work with Dept and Division leadership to identify opportunities to expand influence and the work program for greater impact to our sponsors goals
• In partnership with Project Leads, Work shape projects to increase mission impact and better align to evolving priorities
• Identify technical areas of focus for Department, aligned to current and future sponsor needs

Staff Development

• Demonstrate and promote MITRE’s cultural attributes (speed, risk-taking, adaptability, collaboration, grace and respect)
• Provide leadership and mentorship across the Department
• Recruit, hire, and retain talent to ensure MITRE continues to innovate and achieve desired outcomes and mission impact
• Inculcate a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and continuous learning across the Dept
• Instill a culture of collaboration across all staff to improve MITRE’s value to sponsors

Technical Quality

• Define, adapt, and implement technical quality program across the Dept to ensure products and recommendations delivered to sponsors are independent, data driven, and properly reviewed
• Provide assessment of FFRDC appropriateness for projects activities and work program, providing recommendations that ensure impactful use of FFRDC resources
• Collaborate with Managing Director, Dept Managers, Project Leads, within and across MNS, MPS, and MITRE Labs to identify opportunities to improve technical quality
• Bring to bear relevant technical capabilities from across MITRE Labs for faster development and deployment of mission capabilities

Partnerships and Initiatives

• Support technical outreach to industry, academia, and other stakeholders, ensuring that best practices and technologies are brought to bear on technical products
• Collaborates with Chief Engineers across MITRE (MPS, MNS, and MITRE Labs) to identify opportunities to align efforts and increase impact to sponsors
• Develop partnerships across A&SFC and manage connections across MNS
• Represents MITRE effectively to sponsors, academia, and FFRDC engagements to engender partnerships and improve outcomes
• Serve as steward for collection of Resilient Communication Labs in Bedford through it development as critical MITRE / MNS lab capabilities (Aerial Layer Research & Develop (ALR&D), Tactical Wideband SATCOM Lab and METEOR labs)