HQE Technical Advisor, USSF Spaceport

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The purpose of this position is to organize, train, and equip to provide for freedom of operations in, from, and to the space domain in the US; to provide independent military options for joint and national leadership; and to enable the lethality and effectiveness of the joint force.

Includes combat and combat-support functions to enable prompt and sustained offensive and defensive space operations.

Eligibility will be based upon a clear showing the applicant has training, education and experience of the scope and quality sufficient to effectively carry-out the duties of the position.

Candidates must exemplify the corporate perspective, leadership vision, broad experience and character needed in the SES corps not only to satisfy the immediate vacancy, but future vacancies which will occur in a variety of organizations, functions and locations.

HQEs contribute in a variety of occupational fields, such as soft and hard sciences, engineering, technology, human resources, business, transformation, education, medicine, languages, and logistics.

HQEs may be hired to mentor, lead, oversee, direct, manage, and or consult on DoD programs and initiatives, including high profile and fast track assignments.

HQEs serve at the pleasure of the Appointing Official and may be terminated at any time. When practicable, they should be given no less than 3-days' advance notice. Major Duties:

Shapes requirements and policies to achieve desired capabilities. Reviews/advises complex real property instruments, environmental law, and support agreements.

Develops and implements spaceport and test range capacity and resiliency initiatives.

Advises on National Environmental Protection Act and Real Property processes such as launch site allocation, launch capacity expansion, and leases/licenses.

Represents AATS in spaceport coordination with the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, Installations and Environment (SAF/IE) and the General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force (SAF/GC).

Provides comprehensive planning framework to enable strategic and long-term planning for spaceports to support Department of Defense (DoD), Department of the Air Force, USSF, Intelligence Community (IC), civil, and commercial customers through development of investment strategies, policy changes, and legislative proposals.

Represents AATS on the Spaceport Advisory Council, National Spaceport Strategy discussions, Global Spaceport Alliance, and international spaceport engagements.

Counterpart to the Air Force Civil Engineer Center on "Spaceport of the Future-Infrastructure" to invest in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Vandenberg Space Force Base modernization and sustainment strategy.

Advisor for spaceport-related acquisition strategies, principally for range equipment and critical facility and infrastructure assets.

Advises DoD leadership on the roles of Space Launch Deltas 30 and 45 as Major Range Test and Facility Bases. Represents AATS leaders frequently in the performance of duties.

Advises on spaceport and test range capacity, responsiveness, and resilience and on modernization and sustainment of spaceport and test range capabilities.

Prepares and delivers authoritative analysis covering program objectives, requirements, status, and risk during regular and/or recurring meetings with political appointees, congressional members and staffers, DoD senior leaders (Offices of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, Installations and Environment and General Council; USSF Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations, Cyber, and Nuclear; United States Air Force Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection Directorate; Space Systems Command; Air Force Materiel Command; Air Force Global Strike Command; Test Resource Management Center, U.S.

Navy Strategic Systems Programs, etc.), mission partners (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Reconnaissance Office, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service, state governments, international partners, etc.), AATS leaders, academia, and industry.

Maintains daily contact with senior personnel from across Space Force, Space Operations Command (SpOC), National Space Intelligence Center, Air Force, DoD and national level Intelligence Community (IC) organizations having mission-related activities and occasionally with operating personnel within the IC from a threat assessment lens ensuring the safety and security of spaceports.

Interprets broad national and international-level requirements, strategic vision, sets goals and objectives, determines priorities and direction for protecting US Spaceports and makes trade-offs between the different conflicting program priorities to meet resource constraints.

Provides key information to leadership to assist in formulating goals and objectives that integrate organization and objectives.

Space-based national security space launch programs and systems are highly complex and technically challenging.

As a national security asset, the work is characterized by matters of such difficulty or novelty that leading scientific experts may disagree on an approach or probability of outcome.

Additionally, the necessary related policy may not have been developed yet. Maintains current knowledge of evolving space and national defense needs and anticipates future requirements.

Conducts technical assessments and evaluations that provide a basis for long-range planning towards enhancement of the spaceports' capabilities.

Develops strategies and directs analyses, projects, plans, etc., to maintain and advance the AATS mission.

Monitors or conducts the planning, programming, and budgeting to support the spaceport missions.