Modeling, Simulation and Analysis Engineer (Senior-Level) - TS/SCI Clearance Required

CORE-CSI is a small business headquartered in Sterling, VA. We provide trusted and results-oriented expertise to the Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense, and other Federal and Commercial customers across the US. Core-CSI is seeking talented Modeling, Simulation and Analysis Engineer (Senior-Level).

Overall Assignment Description:

Senior-level Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) Engineers guide and conduct modeling, simulation and analysis activities in support of business stakeholders, analysts, and warfighters to define and analyze system and data requirements to support NGA business and mission processes to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties may include:

• Guides the development and use of complex models, tools and algorithms to identify trends and patterns in Big Data.
• Guides modeling NGA's architectures, requirements, and systems performance and considers NGA and NSG strategies and overall vision for the future of GEOINT.
• Guides the creation of models to support analysis of alternatives, performance trades, design trades and new capabilities and develops alternatives for deployment based on MS&A results in existing NSG architectures and cloud environments.
• Guides the work of Mid- and Junior-level contractor MS&A Engineers.
• The MS&A shall provide support under Modeling, Simulation & Analysis (MS&A) using Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods and industry best practices. MS&A captures the knowledge, hypotheses, assumptions and conclusions of an intelligence problem in a format useful to both humans and machines. MS&A activities shall include interfacing with the models maintained by the Enterprise MS&A activities. These interactions with the Enterprise level models are used in AoAs, Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments to provide recommendations to the Sensor Programs on future acquisition options, impact of Sensor Programs on the current architecture, and investment needs to support architecture upgrades necessary to accommodate Sensor Programs and their interaction with systems architectures, subsystems, services, and components across the NGA, SAGE (CAP/SAP), NSG, ASG, USG, Mission Partner, commercial and foreign partners' architectures. MS&A support shall also be utilized to depict/simulate enterprise and sub-level architectures to model/test performance and new concepts for future Sensor Program architectures (i.e., ground, airborne, overhead). The MS&A activity shall conduct performance analysis, determine mission testing requirements, and provide/recommend measures of effectiveness (MOE) for new and existing capabilities to meet GEOINT and intelligence analysts' needs. The Contractor shall initiate communications to ensure Modeling, Simulation & Analysis (MS&A) activities and results are collaborated/coordinated with engineering activities conducted in NEE, NGA Segment Engineering (NSE), NGA Foundational Engineering (NFE), and NGA Digital Engineering (NDE) contracts. The NEE MS&A activities for TIS will be executed in collaboration with and integrated with the NEE MS&A activities for TAEF to ensure consistency across tools, data, methods, outcomes, etc.
• MS&A shall support, but is not limited to, the following MS&A activities:

1. Conduct and deliver assessments and recommendations on performance engineering and analysis throughout phases of the Systems Engineering Lifecycle. Recommendations shall inform decisions related to current and future enterprise architectures (As-Is and To-Be), current and future capabilities, budgeting, proposed CONOPS and technical roadmaps.
2. Conduct Modeling, Simulation and Analysis to simulate, forecast and assess proposed activities/initiatives on emerging trends and disruptive forces that will impact and set the direction for the GEOINT To-Be Architecture.
3. Shall identify where changes may be beneficial and/or efficiencies gained. As information technology environments and capabilities evolve, outcomes of MS&A will need to consider and assess the impacts of such changes. Assessments shall include, but are not limited to:
4. Technology advancements and performance improvements in collection systems (Impact on collection capabilities and ground architecture)
5. Impacts of machine learning and performance issues caused by big data, such as ever increasing sources of GEOINT content from multiple providers.
6. Impacts on communications and data transport systems within architectures and overall architectural timeliness and responsiveness.
7. Shall interact with the developed MS&A performance and mission effectiveness algorithms, methodologies, and programs needed to support NGA, NSG, ASG, USG, Commercial and Foreign Partner studies when needed as applicable to Sensor Programs.
8. As directed by the government, shall work with the Enterprise MS&A team to perform Enterprise-level ("big picture") performance and mission effectiveness analysis as they pertain to Sensor Programs and deliver assessments and recommendations which inform/influence future enterprise architecture designs, capabilities, and roadmaps.
9. Shall work with the Enterprise MS&A team to perform MS&A performance and mission effectiveness analysis activities, assessments, and prediction of IT services and performance to meet mission requirements with consideration for data characteristics (format, utilization, integrity, persistence), current/projected IT environment (services, protocols, bandwidth, speed, reliability, architecture), and applicable laws/policies/standards (security, interoperability) as they apply to Sensor Programs.
10. Shall perform MS&A performance and mission effectiveness analysis on commercially available services and products and recommend which ones should be included into enterprise baselines. MS&A shall include the evaluation of proposed solution strategies; identify project performance requirements and provide recommendations to divestment/acceleration decisions and cost estimation/evaluation.
11. Shall develop capacity impacts to include modeling of predictive impacts as they apply to Sensor Programs.
12. Shall develop algorithms, codes and databases needed for studies using, but not limited to: Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Access, Oracle, SQL using Visual Basic, R, Python, C++, C##, and JAVA for MS&A focus areas. Shall utilize MS&A system(s) that share a commons data schema where work can be shared across all NGA supported mission areas such as overhead, Tactical, and ground.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.
• Senior-level experience working in government or industry modeling large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.
• Knowledge of tools development and use in cloud environments.

Desired:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or related STEM degree program.
• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Machine learning experience.
• Senior-level experience in Operations Research.
• Experience performing MS&A on solutions using Cloud-based technologies.
• Experience performing MS&A on solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.
• Experience performing MS&A on solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.
• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

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