Full Job Description
Leidos is on the hunt for a driven Senior Targeting Program SME to support the ACC A22 Tradecraft Division at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, VA. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help the Air Combat Command Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Staff. The incumbent will provide analytic, operational, technical, and planning support to ACC and subordinate units to modernize the ISR Enterprise for which ACC has responsibility including capability-based planning processes with documentation of needs/gaps, and recommended solutions. The contractor will support various management and administrative roles to ensure efficient and effective operations of organizational activities. Candidates must currently posses an active TS/SCI clearance.
Note: Funding for the opportunity is expected July 15th.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Provide leadership and direction to ensure timely completion of taskers, responses to information requests, data call generation, document reviews, and acquisition reporting.
• Oversee and review tasker responses to verify programmatic and technical accuracy.
• Perform executive-level analysis and assessments in applying advanced principles, theories, and concepts to a wide range of work in the areas of planning, deployment, operation, and enhancement of advanced technology for the ACC ISR Enterprise.
• Through capabilities-based planning and assessments, evaluate and identify material and non-materiel solutions for advancing the ACC ISR Enterprise.
• Support complex problems and provide solutions that are innovative to establish new theories and practices, leading to new and creative technical solutions to problems.
• Review and analyze the organizational structure, relations, systems, and processes across the enterprise to improve ISR capabilities through technology, TTP development/modifications, and investments.
• Assist the Government with drafting supporting documents for the development, Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System (PPBES) to support the advocacy of the identified materiel and non-materiel solutions.
• Assist with the Air Force budget process to include POM (involving manpower, resources, and dollars).
• Coordinate and ensure execution of senior staff visits in accordance with established workflows, ensuring all required documentation is completed accurately and on-time.
• Participate in, and support, as required, targeting tradecraft meetings and conferences.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree and 15 years or Master's degree and 10 years of relevant experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Must possess a current DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance single-scope background investigation. TS with SCI eligibility accepted.
• Previous Air Force ISR and targeting experience
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, analytic skills, and problem solving ability.
• Familiarity with Air Force and Joint Targeting and Kill-Chain processes, tools, and tradecraft
• Should have experience in requirements management and implementation as well as metrics development, tracking and delivering outcomes.
• Ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
• Ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners
• May require 10% travel
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Original Posting:
June 1, 2026
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.