Kitty Hawk Technologies, a growing service and technology innovator, is seeking talented and motivated professionals to deliver lean and effective solutions to our government partners. We have an immediate opening for a Sr. Mission Analyst to join our team. This position will provide an opportunity to develop the innovative technology that supports some of our nation’s most important defense initiatives. Kitty Hawk employees work closely with our customers to develop solutions that support national engineering/analysis and security missions, and the ideal candidate will support our team in providing program support to the Department of Defense (DoD). In addition to receiving a competitive salary and health benefits, the RDER Mission Analyst will join a motivated, talented, and technically accomplished team. The employee will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded. 

Candidates must be results oriented and have the ability to work in a well-organized, logical and systematic manner. They will set clear objectives, monitor progress, take corrective action and control performance levels to maintain high internal customer satisfaction. They will possess deep insight into customer requirements and will maintain the ability to ethically influence those requirements. They will be able to clearly define and clearly articulate compelling solutions and will require an ability to quickly assimilate and apply complex technical information. 

Kitty Hawk Technologies is currently seeking a RDER Mission Analysis in support of Engineering Analysis/Assessment Services to work in the Dahlgren, Virginia area. The RDER Mission Analyst will provide analysis team support to prototype evaluation activities.

Essential Functions: 

Responsibilities in this position include, but are not limited to…

• Works as part of an analysis team to support the analysis of effectiveness of prototypes as part of the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) program 
• Contributes to RDER process and schedules development and maintenance
• Reviews prototype performance characteristics, works closely with industry prototype teams to understand prototype capabilities and limitations, and defines metrics to support analysis requirements
• Develops Data Collection and Analysis Plans (DCAPs) to capture prototype capabilities, limitations, test objectives, and metrics and associated acceptability criteria and supports review and signature process.
• Participates in recurring working groups with prototype integration and ops teams
• Attends Initial (IPC), Mid (MPC), and Final Planning conferences (FPC) in support of prototype analysis objectives
• Provides on-site support for risk reduction events (RREs) and service events to capture relevant amplifying information, daily logs, and support interaction with the services to conduct surveys and complete questionnaires
• Supports reach-back lab tool development and analysis of event data
• Develop post event quick look report (QLR) and Final analysis reports (FARs) and supports briefing to Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) sponsors where applicable. 

Candidates must be results oriented and have the ability to work in a well-organized, logical and systematic manner. They will set clear objectives, monitor progress, take corrective action and control performance levels to maintain high internal customer satisfaction. They will possess deep insight into customer requirements and will maintain the ability to ethically influence those requirements. They will be able to clearly define and clearly articulate compelling solutions and will require an ability to quickly assimilate and apply complex technical information.
Kitty Hawk Technologies is currently seeking a Model Based Systems Engineer with three (3) or more years of experience with SysML and Cameo System Modeler in support of Engineering Services to work in the Dahlgren, Virginia area.

Responsibilities in this position include, but are not limited to:
– Works as part of a team to support Navy modeling efforts.
– Develops mission architectures in collaboration with government customers to represent System of System and System interactions.
– Develops system representations using authoritative sources of truth (ASOT) and defines traceability within the model(s) to source data.
– Collaborates with other Navy MBSE projects to support alignment initiatives through common ontology or project usages.
– Maintains configuration management of models using Teamwork Cloud or other project defined CM Process.
– Adheres to existing project SysML, UAF, and project specific style guidance.
– Participates in recurring Technical Exchange Meetings to align model development with project milestones and requirements.
– Participates in MBSE Community of Practice (CoP) to support project alignment to Navy initiatives.
– Prepares technical presentations, briefings, and papers to address model development status.
– Works independently with minimal supervision/oversight in a team environment.