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SENIOR CYBER DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIST

Axient LLC
Arlington, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/13/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/12/2025

Check out this NEW Opportunity with Axient! :

Axient is seeking a Senior Cyber Defense Technologist in support of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) for a joint initiative chartered with the Services to analyze the hardest military challenges facing the U.S. and our Allies; and to develop experiments to provide future warfighting architectures to address these challenges through :

Change the current warfighting paradigm of reliance on a Service-specific and platform centric force into one that operates as a disaggregated kill web that is able to execute rapidly composable, joint, and all domain kill chains.

Exploit both existing and emerging technologies across the Services, to address known capability gaps, opportunities, and threats.

Conducting mission-centric, multi-Service and multi-domain analyses, modeling and simulation (M&S), and experimentation to inform research and development (R&D), and program of record recommendations.

A current TS / SCI clearance is required.

What you will do... :

The successful candidates will :

Recognize, identify, explore, and ensure the development, integration, and funding of new technology and capabilities to maintain U.S. technological superiority.

Takes a unified, missions-level view across the entire Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise to analyze joint missions and identify crosscutting technology gaps critical to military readiness.

Maintain a focus on the innovative application of technology

Work with a robust network of transition partners within and external to the DoD to mitigate gaps through accelerated prototyping, demonstration, and fielding technologies

Transition relevant programs, processes and technologies from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Skills you will need... :

Required Qualifications :

  • Required : MS in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or related discipline
  • Preferred : Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or related discipline
  • Clearance : TS / SCI

A minimum of 15 years of experience with bolstering the development and implementation of advanced cyber technologies and systems

  • Experience supporting signal warfare specialty including planning, developing and executing technical projects of a R&D nature, concerned with unique or controversial problems which have an important effect on major DoD programs.
  • Demonstrated skill in conceiving, planning and conducting research studies combining operational expertise with novel technology approaches and sophisticated research techniques to assess military effectiveness and engineering viability.
  • Demonstrated experience in the use of advanced techniques, theories, precepts, and practices in technological programs, preferably one that has transitioned to operational use.
  • Experience, background, and knowledge of program transition efforts is highly desirable.
  • Joint / Combatant Commands (COCOM) staff experience highly desirable.
  • Location : National Capital Region

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