This position is being filled under the memorandum from the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD(P&R)) "Expansion of Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel of the Department of Defense," dated October 15, 2021. This position is part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Duties

As a Interdisciplinary Physical Scientist/General Engineer at the GS-0801/1301-13/14 some of your typical work assignments may include: Recognizes opportunities for development of new technologies that provide improved capabilities to support the Agency's mission. Seeks to form teams to enhance program development, facilitate synergy, and minimize duplication of effort. Ensures that program efforts are fully coordinated with the Services and other Agencies. Ensures that program products are responsive to military and policy requirements. Maintains awareness to identify spin-off, non- government applications. Finds, characterizes, and detects activities involved with the construction, testing, evaluation, and operational maintenance and safety features of newly developed or installed reactor components. Manages programs in coordination with services and other agencies. Leads complex technical development programs to stay abreast of the latest scientific theories, experiments, and technology trends in Hard and Deeply Buried Targets (HDBT) defeat area, Hard Targets Development (HTD), and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Represents the Agency on committees of national and international importance that focus on holding adversarial and command, control, communications, and intelligence (C4I) and WMD- related infrastructure at risk. Maintains required liaison with personnel within the Agency, the military Services, DoD agencies, and any other relevant organizations including DIA and other Agencies to assess operational warfighter requirements for Command, Control, Computing, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (C5ISRT) and WMD-related facilities. Prepares and presents oral and written presentations to high-ranking military and civilian flag- level personnel. Serves as the subject matter expert at meetings and serves as a member on special boards, panels, and IPTs.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Occasional Travel
• Work Schedule: Full-time
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
• Overtime: Occasionally
• Tour of Duty: Flexible
• Recruitment Incentives: May Be Authorized
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Financial Disclosure: Not Required
• Telework Eligibility: This position is situational telework eligible
• Subject to pre-employment drug testing and random drug testing thereafter
• This is an Acquisition Workforce position in the Engineering and Technical Management functional area. The incumbent will be required to become certified in the Practitioner tier within 5 years.
• The incumbent is required to acquire a minimum of 40 continuous learning points (CLPs) every year as a goal and 80 CLPs being mandatory within 2 years.

Qualifications

You may qualify at the GS 14 , if you fulfill the following qualifications: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the 13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below: Extensive experience in Hardened Deeply Buried Target (HDBT), Hard Target Development (HTD) and /or Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) mechanical, physical, electrical, or chemical industrial process characterization, analytical techniques, and identification of systems vulnerabilities. Extensive Experience in the development and or acquisition of projects/programs to conduct development research to solve problems associated with the targets and processes. Extensive experience in assessing complex portfolios of research and development projects; including gap analysis, strategy development and implementation, and project initiation involving HDBT, HTD, and WMD offensive capabilities. Extensive experience in planning a complex research and development portfolio comprised of multiple individual projects and managing finances toward stated obligation and expenditure goals. General experience with collaboration between multiple Department of Defense agencies, USGOV agencies, and foreign partners. You may qualify at the GS 13 , if you fulfill the following qualifications: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the 12 grade level in the Federal service as listed below: Experience in Hardened Deeply Buried Target (HDBT), Hard Target Development (HTD) and /or Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) mechanical, physical, electrical, or chemical industrial process characterization, analytical techniques, and identification of systems vulnerabilities. Experience in the development and or acquisition of projects/programs to conduct development research to solve problems associated with the targets and processes. Experience in assessing complex portfolios of research and development projects; including gap analysis, strategy development and implementation, and project initiation involving HDBT, HTD, and WMD offensive capabilities. Experience in planning a complex research and development portfolio comprised of multiple individual projects and managing finances toward stated obligation and expenditure goals. General experience with collaboration between multiple Department of Defense agencies, USGOV agencies, and foreign partners. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.

All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

• Address Defense Threat Reduction Agency 8725 JOHN J KINGMAN ROAD MSC 6201 FT BELVOIR, VA 22060-6201 US
• Name: DTRA Servicing Team
• Phone: 614-692-0259
• Email: [email protected]