PAE MS Project Leader

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. MITRE’s Naval Integration & Operations Department conducts systems engineering, mission engineering, analysis, and research for challenging naval missions across the maritime and joint domains. The department is seeking a Project Leader to lead a portfolio of work advancing the security, resiliency, and mission effectiveness of Navy nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) and related C4I capabilities. The Project Leader will provide overall direction and accountability for sponsor outcomes across efforts involving end-to-end NC3 modeling and threat analysis, Zero Trust protection of Qualifying NC3 Information (QNI), supply chain risk management, resilient communications for nuclear mission systems, mission effects and requirements analysis, and independent assessment of information exchange requirements. The role requires strong sponsor engagement, integrated project leadership, sound technical judgment, disciplined execution, and the ability to connect work across MITRE to produce decision-quality outcomes. Roles & Responsibilities: Provide overall leadership and accountability for project execution and sponsor outcomes, establishing project vision, objectives, priorities, success criteria, and an integrated technical strategy aligned with sponsor needs and MITRE’s FFRDC role. Lead and integrate Deputy Project Leaders, Task Leaders, and multidisciplinary technical staff across NC3 systems engineering, mission engineering, cybersecurity and Zero Trust, communications, threat analysis, supply chain risk management, requirements analysis, and enterprise systems engineering. Build and maintain trusted sponsor relationships, receive and validate formal sponsor tasks, translate emerging mission needs into executable work, and communicate project status, risks, accomplishments, recommendations, and opportunities to senior government and MITRE stakeholders. Own project execution across scope, staffing, schedules, budgets, funding, dependencies, and risks, using MITRE processes and tools to maintain situational awareness and deliver high-quality outcomes on schedule and within available resources. Ensure technical quality, mission relevance, and integration of analyses and deliverables, including end-to-end models, threat and gap analyses, reference implementations, technical guidance, performance metrics, vendor assessments, test plans, architecture recommendations, and decision products. Connect related work across MITRE departments, centers, Navy stakeholders, and mission partners to leverage expertise, reduce duplication, identify cross-project dependencies, and create additional sponsor impact consistent with MITRE’s role. Develop the project leadership bench by mentoring Deputy Project Leaders, Task Leaders, and technical staff, fostering an inclusive and collaborative team environment. Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related technical field, with experience appropriate for the Principal care…

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