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Laurel, MD, US

Laurel, Maryland, US

Lead and manage a diverse and expanding portfolio of projects in the Robotics and Autonomy Program for the Applied Physics Laboratory's (APL) Research and Exploratory Development Department. Advance and focus the program strategy leveraging APL's significant expertise in robotics and autonomy subject areas to achieve novel and breakthrough discovery..

This position is to serve as a Member of the Scientific & Industry Advisory Board (SIAB) of The Testing, Evaluation and Control of Heterogeneous Large-scale Systems of Autonomous Vehicles (TECHLAV) CenterThe TECHLAV Center is composed of a strong multi-disciplinary team from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (a Historically Black.

Yuma, US

Lead and manage three subordinate test centers consisting of the Yuma Test Center (Arizona); Cold Regions Test Center (Alaska); and Tropic Regions Test Center (Panama, Honduras, Hawaii, and Suriname). Command the Army's busiest proving ground with an integrated workforce of over 2,700 military, civilian, and contractor personnel; and an annual budget.

Serve as the program manager for the Actuation, Dynamics, and Mechanisms basic research program. Identify and publish research thrusts and pursue academic research opportunities resulting in innovative opportunity-driven fundamental research that maximizes potential relevance to identified research gaps. Receive, review, down select, and award grants to.

Develop and implement requirements and investment strategies to focus small business, minority outreach, and youth science initiatives on Army science and technology goals. Manage the Army’s Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program and the Army Research Office’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program by coordinating STTR/SBIR research.

Lead and manage the life-cycle management (development, production, fielding, and sustainment) of Army and Joint service unmanned/unattended air and ground intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors and systems including an aerostat-based, high-resolution imaging system; overt/covert unattended ground sensor systems; and sensor fusion.

Primary coordinator and facilitator within the Department of the Army (DA) staff with oversight responsibilities for the over $7B acquisition category I and II programs within the Aviation Rockets and Missiles, and Joint Common Missile program offices. Coordinate directly with the project manager, DA principal staff synchronization officers, training.

Principal assistant to the program executive officer (PEO) - a brigadier general acquisition commander with over 400 government personnel, and an annual budget exceeding $1 billion. Assist the PEO in developing, integrating, acquiring, and fielding eight critical Army air and missile defense systems. Liaison between the PEO and the project/product.

Primary assistant to the product manager of the Medium Extended Air Defense System - a tri-national, multi-billion-dollar, acquisition category 1D major defense acquisition program. Provide direct management oversight to four civil servants. Assist in the creation, oversight, and execution of a $49M budget. Serve as a manager and subject-matter expert on.

Plan and execute the collaboration of scientific and technical information on international weapon systems and technologies throughout Europe, Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Russia. Write technical reports in support of DoD research, system development and acquisition programs. Plan and execute the acquisition of international materiel in.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering