1. Manage the Department of the Air Force (DAF) basic research portfolio in High-Speed Aeronautics. Lead, promote, and enable innovative basic research on the fundamental principles and methodologies in the cross-discipline research areas listed in the Job Overview and Required Qualifications
2. Define and integrate world-class research and development programs based upon anticipating DAF requirements and leveraging national and international activities. Solicit, evaluate, and select high-risk/high-impact research proposals from researchers at universities and other organizations within the US and worldwide.
3. Coordinate with and advise other DoD/government agencies such as the Army, Navy, and DARPA or other national and international organizations.
4. Prepare, review, or direct briefings and decision papers that inform AFRL and peer organizations across the research community on the advances in understanding of high-speed aerodynamics that are the results of research from funded investigators.
5. Manage all aspects of portfolio operations including maintaining electronic records, tracking and approving technical reports, and overseeing obligation and execution data.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Telework may be authorized
• Recruitment incentives may be authorized (may require a service agreement)
• Student Loan Repayment Program (SLRP) may be offered for eligible candidates (may require a service agreement)
• The duty location for this position is located at Arlington, VA
• The incumbent is subject to pre-employment drug testing as a condition of employment, and participation in random drug testing
• Selectee is expected to be granted with and/or maintain the appropriate security clearance required for the position
• Work may occasionally require the employee to work outside the normal business hours
• Position has been designated as an acquisition position and is covered by the Acquisition Professional Development Program. Employee must meet, or be capable of meeting Defense Acquisition Work Improvement Act requirements applicable to the position.
• Males must be registered for Selective Service, see www.sss.gov
• For additional information on direct hire opportunities with the Air Force please go to https://afciviliancareers.com/find-a-job/

Qualifications

BASIC REQUIREMENT OR INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT: Professional Engineering Positions: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/

• Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

OR

• Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive. 1 For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org. 2 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
Experience requirements are described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Professional and Scientific Positions. Click on the following link to view qualification requirements for this position: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-PROF to include the Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR)

Specialized Experience: Applicants must have at least one (1) year or 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to DR-3 (GS-14) in the Federal service or equivalent in an alternate pay system. Specialized experience is professional engineering experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

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