Emerging Capabilities Transition Lead

Overview

Apogee is seeking an Emerging Capabilities Transition Lead to support the mission of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, OH. In this senior-level leadership position, you'll guide GSPO (R&D) operations, leading the research, development, and operational transition of emerging capabilities into the PIR Enterprise Platform and associated environments. You'll play a pivotal role in bringing cutting-edge technologies from concept to operational reality, ensuring NASIC maintains technological superiority in intelligence operations.

****Contingent Upon Contract Award****

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document technical and operational requirements for emerging capabilities
• Plan, schedule, and facilitate collaborative design discussions and technical exchange meetings among multiple stakeholders
• Coordinate integration, testing, and transition activities to bring new capabilities into operational use
• Ensure alignment of new capabilities with security, cloud optimization, and mission requirements
• Provide recommendations on prioritization and sequencing of capability transitions
• Provide support to the research, development, and operational transition of emerging capabilities
• Gather, analyze, and document technical and operational requirements for Government approval
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and requirements elicitation sessions for emerging capabilities
• Analyze requirements for completeness, consistency, feasibility, and alignment with operational needs
• Document requirements in appropriate formats and obtain government approval
• Validate that requirements are testable and traceable throughout the capability lifecycle
• Plan, schedule, and facilitate collaborative design discussions and technical exchange meetings among multiple stakeholders
• Organize and lead technical working groups focused on capability development and transition
• Facilitate consensus-building among diverse technical and operational communities
• Coordinate across DoD, IC, industry, and academic stakeholders
• Document meeting outcomes, decisions, action items, and design choices
• Coordinate end-to-end integration, testing, and transition activities to successfully bring new capabilities into active operational use
• Develop integrated transition plans spanning development, testing, deployment, and sustainment
• Coordinate activities across multiple teams including R&D, testing, operations, and IT support
• Manage critical path activities and dependencies to ensure successful transition
• Monitor transition progress and address issues that threaten schedule or success
• Lead transition planning from research and development through operational deployment
• Develop detailed transition roadmaps with clear milestones and decision points
• Identify and mitigate transition risks including technical, operational, and organizational risks
• Coordinate transition activities with ongoing operations to minimize disruption
• Plan for phased deployment approaches when appropriate
• Coordinate fielding activities and operational handoff processes
• Work with operational users to plan capability deployment and rollout
• Develop deployment schedules that align with operational windows and priorities
• Coordinate logistics for hardware delivery, software deployment, and configuration
• Ensure operational environments are prepared to receive new capabilities
• Support user training and change management activities
• Develop training plans for new capabilities aligned with transition timeline
• Coordinate with training teams on curriculum development and delivery
• Ensure users are adequately prepared to operate new capabilities
• Support change management to facilitate user adoption and minimize resistance
• Ensure sustainment planning is integrated into capability development
• Define sustainment requirements including maintenance, support, and lifecycle management
• Coordinate with sustainment organizations to ensure readiness to support capabilities
• Develop transition agreements and memoranda of agreement (MOAs) for capability transfer
• Ensure adequate funding and resources are allocated for sustainment
• Coordinate technical integration activities across systems and platforms
• Manage integration of new capabilities with existing operational systems
• Coordinate interface definitions and integration testing with external systems
• Resolve integration issues and incompatibilities
• Ensure interoperability with DoD and IC enterprise systems
• Support end-to-end testing including integration testing, system testing, and operational testing

 

Qualifications

Minimum Experience:

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen Clearance: Eligible for TS/SCI; able to obtain and maintain required clearances.

Education: Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering Management, or a related field.

Years of Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in systems integration, R&D transition, or similar technical leadership roles.
• An additional 8 years of relevant experience may be substituted for the Master’s degree; or 4 additional years plus a Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience integrating and transitioning new capabilities into secure, cloud-hosted operational environments.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity requirements, ATO processes, and vulnerability management.
• Strong coordination, facilitation, and communication skills.

Location:Wright Patterson AFB Dayton, OHOn-site/Hybrid/Remote: On-siteTravel: Occasional