USfalcon - Fort Hood, TX
posted about 1 month ago
We have an exciting opportunity supporting the ARCWERX Innovation Center in Austin, TX, as a Senior Operations Research Analyst (Innovation Liaison). This role is pivotal in fostering collaboration across the Department of Defense (DoD) innovation ecosystem, which includes key entities such as the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), Army Futures, Air Force Futures, Navy research, AFWERX, and SOFWERX. The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting thorough analysis and maintaining situational awareness of DoD-wide innovation initiatives, ensuring they align with the ARCWERX innovation portfolio, strategic initiatives, and requirements. A significant aspect of this role involves negotiating data sharing agreements with mission partners and collaborating with industry and academia to explore emerging technologies and innovative opportunity concepts. In this position, you will work closely with senior technical leads on mission decomposition analysis, identifying critical capability needs and strategic goals. You will lead a global emerging technology cell, monitoring and evaluating new technologies for their viability in innovative opportunity concepts. Your contributions will be essential in developing and maintaining information for collaboration dashboards that track and correlate opportunity concepts across various mission partner activities. This role requires a proactive approach to technology scanning, assessing the feasibility of potential technology solutions, and evaluating their alignment with ARCWERX's strategic goals. You will also be expected to exercise independent judgment and contribute to the development of company concepts and principles, while analyzing military operations and concepts of operations to identify inefficiencies in current processes and systems through operational research methods.