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Company: SAIC
Location: Alexandria, VA
Career Level: Associate
Industries: Technology, Software, IT, Electronics

Description

Description

SAIC is hiring a Senior CFIUS-Export Control Analyst to lead our team of qualified, diverse, and highly motivated individuals supporting the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)). The qualified candidate will provide extensive research, technical, and financial assessments, as well as policy recommendations on existing and emerging technologies essential to the United States maintaining superior military capabilities. Work will be performed primarily in Alexandria, VA and Arlington, VA including at the Pentagon, the Mark Center, and local company offices in Rosslyn, supporting DoD, Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), Department of Commerce (DoC), Department of State (DoS), and other Departments and Agencies. Travel to conferences, training and interagency meetings will likely take place less than 10% of the time, and predominantly within the continental United States. Job Responsibilities:
  • Track review progress, ensure completeness of review, and assist in executing and monitoring outcomes as required; mitigate foreign ownership, control, influence, cyber penetration, and other exploitation threats to the US technology and manufacturing industrial bases
  • Review in support of OUSD(R&E) efforts related to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA)
  • Provide analysis and recommendations regarding CFIUS, Mergers and Acquisitions, export controls, and other related protection methods to the Director, Economic Security (ES) responsible for supporting OUSD(R&E) Principal Directors for DoD Modernization Priorities
  • Facilitate assessments of the confluence of technology concerns, business concerns, foreign involvement, and how that involvement might affect DoD modernization priorities, warfighting capabilities, technology advantage, and associated RDT&E investments, or otherwise compromise national security
  • Formulate risk mitigation strategies to address technology and technical stakeholder interests, facilitating involvement of Science and Technology (S&T) and system development communities as appropriate; conduct integration of multiple case management, technology and business awareness, and technology assessment systems as necessary to conduct risk assessments and responses; monitor vulnerability risk mitigation implementation actions
  • Maintain awareness of DoD critical technology and manufacturing ecosystem needs, the latest technological developments through technical journals, continuing education and participation in professional engineering societies and other science and technology forums; identify and foster appropriate vulnerability mitigation actions
  • Evaluate the results of past and current assessments, and apply strategies to protect and promote the U.S. industrial base, technology development, and investment strategies; develop, implement, and monitor metrics to determine the success of implemented strategies and policies
  • Prepare executive-level decision briefs, develop courses of action for short and long range implementation and administration of strategic objectives; chair meetings of standing and ad-hoc groups and committees, as well as lead teams commissioned to resolve problems; arbitrate and determine courses of action in various engineering technical forums to resolve challenges and incompatibilities

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

  • Bachelor's and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Master's and twelve (12) years or more experience.
  • Degree in engineering discipline or related science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) field; or Bachelors degree in related fields with substantive technology acquisition and development experience.

Required Clearance:

  • Active TS/SCI 
  • US citizenship required

Required Skills:

  • Knowledge of the Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA), Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), OUSD(A&S)/Industrial Policy, Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), intelligence, counterintelligence and law enforcement organizations, interagency partners like DoC and DoS
  • Knowledge of relevant USG/DoD policies, procedures, tools, and support services
  • Proficient in MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent customer service skills

Desired Skills:

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline or related science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) field
  • Knowledge of Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) organizational structures, functions, and communication protocols
  • Knowledge in one or more of the DoD technology modernization areas to include Microelectronics, Directed Energy, Space, Hypersonics, Autonomy, Quantum Cyber, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Command, Control, & Communications (C3), and other related technologies

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.


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