Description:
Duties
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- Plans, conducts, evaluates, analyzes, and resolves issues critical to test of new conventional and unconventional aircraft, avionics, or armament systems/ subsystems in a simulation facility
- Define, develop and execute set up of the entire digital battlespace configuration, validate the virtual environment with the customer defined threat laydowns, System Under Test (SUT) configurations, threat configurations, weapon configurations, constructive entity types, constructive entity scripting, test prep, test ops, posttest reconfigurations and data deliveries
- Coordinate with customers to develop test support plans and test procedures, threat lay-downs, battlespace density, data acquisition and data reduction techniques, specify data parameters to be recorded, and formulate data delivery plan for executing and reporting on test objectives
- Provides assistance to senior engineers and electronics technicians and contractor personnel in various phases of test projects
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- U.S. Citizenship Required
- Obtain and maintain a Security clearance
- This is a designated Drug Testing Position
- Obtain and maintain DAU Level II for Test and Evaluation
- Up to 25% Travel possible
- Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) prescribed “Unscheduled Telework.
- This position MAY be eligible for a recruitment/relocation incentive. Specifics will be discussed with the Selecting Official.
- This position MAY be eligible for paid relocation (Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs MAY be paid). Specifics will be discussed with the Selecting Official.
- This position MAY be eligible for a Student Loan Repayment (SLR) incentive. Specifics will be discussed with the Selecting Official.
- Subject to TDY approximately 30 days per year
- This position requires a top secret and possibly SCI security clearances as well as possible clearances with special access programs.
- This position may require some flying in government and military aircraft.
- This position, although performed in the general office environment, may require frequent CONUS and/or foreign travel away from the AFTC for periods of up to three weeks or more at a time, depending on project requirements.
- This position has been designated as an Non-Critical Acquisition Position and is covered by the Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP).
- The employee must meet, or be capable of meeting Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) certification requirements applicable to the career category designated on the position description within 24 months of assignment.
- This position also requires the employee to engage in acquisition continuous learning activities achieving 80 Continuous Learning points every 24 months.