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This position will provide technical and operational expertise across satellite communications architectures, networks, scheduling, and mission operations.\nThe successful candidate will have a strong understanding of IC and DoD SATCOM architectures and the ability to work effectively across multiple organizations, mission partners, and technical teams. The role will focus on ensuring continuity and coordination of satellite communications scheduling and operations across relay systems and networks supporting critical missions.\nResponsibilities\nProvide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support for satellite communications planning, scheduling, integration, and operations.\nSupport the coordination and execution of SATCOM services across multiple communications networks.\nWork across multiple mission teams, operations centers, ground systems, and external organizations to ensure continuity of communications services.\nCoordinate and resolve scheduling requirements, priorities, conflicts, and changes among multiple stakeholders.\nMaintain awareness of current and future communications requirements and identify potential scheduling, capacity, or operational conflicts.\nSupport development and assessment of communications architectures, operational concepts, procedures, and technical solutions.\nProvide system usage metrics, overall customer trends including community adopted constraints/procedures and assist teams in developing usage and overall mission satisfaction strategies. \nSupport enterprise tests, readiness activities, exercises, rehearsals, and real-time operations as required.\nIdentify technical and operational risks to SATCOM availability and mission continuity and communicate those risks to appropriate stakeholders.\nDevelop briefings, technical assessments, schedules, status reports, and recommendations for cross-organization customer leadership.\nRequired Qualifications\nActive TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Aerospace, Communications, Information Systems, Physics, or a related technical discipline.\nExperience supporting the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, or national security space missions.\nDemonstrated knowledge of satellite communications systems, architectures, and operational concepts.\nFamiliarity with government and/or commercial SATCOM networks.\nExperience with SATCOM scheduling, mission planning, network coordination, spacecraft operations, ground operations, or related activities.\nUnderstanding of the interfaces between spacecraft, ground systems, communications networks, and mission operations.\nAbility to coordinate effectively across multiple organizations and technical disciplines in a complex operational environment.\nStrong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to translate technical and operational issues for diverse stakeholders.\nAbility to identify potential communications conflicts, dependencies, and risks and drive issues toward resolution.\nDesired Qualifications\nExperience supporting NRO, USSF, SSC or other IC/DoD space organizations.\nCurrent or previous experience with handling special access and reserve level clearances \nExperience supporting satellite operations from an operational ground station, mission operations center, or satellite operations center.\nFamiliarity with communications link planning, RF systems, ground stations, antennas, network interfaces, and communications capacity management.\nExperience coordinating communications resources across multiple spacecraft or missions with competing operational priorities.\nKey Attributes\nThe ideal candidate is a mission-oriented integrator\nwho understands both the technical and operational sides of satellite communications. 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