Organization

Naval Air Warfare Center – Aircraft Division

Location: Patuxent River, MD

Branch: Air Combat Effectiveness (NAWCAD 1.1.2)

Position

Full-Time Air Combat Analyst (Civilian) – Seeking individuals graduating in 2022

Work

• Assess the performance of existing and conceptual missiles, aircraft, and sensor suites
• Analyze via modeling and simulation the overall combat capabilities of sub-systems (e.g. radar, IRSTs) and systems-of-systems (e.g. many aircraft employing coordinated tactics) in achieving military objectives
• Maintain air-to-air combat expertise via interaction with fleet and fleet exercises
• Interact with fighter pilots to determine current and future needs
• Analyze data, identify driving factors, and present findings to senior leadership

We are looking for U.S. citizens who:

• Possess a genuine desire to understand complex multi-disciplinary problems and relationships
  • We build and modify the tools needed to solve a problem, rather than repeatedly applying the same tools to varying problems
• Have a strong interest in aerospace and fighter aircraft
• Are driven engineers/scientists/physicists with interest in some or all of the following areas:

RF Engineering

• Sensor design, signal processing, circuit design

IR Engineering

• Mid-wave/long-wave signature and detection

Aerospace Engineering

• Aircraft performance, dynamics

Software/Tool Development

• Data science: machine learning, genetic/evolutionary algorithms; database management; data visualization
• Optimization: swarm logic, path planning, calculus of variations, game theory
• Languages of Interest: Python, C++, FORTRAN, Matlab

Statistics and Design of Experiments

• Analyzing stochastic data to determine trends
• Designing experimental matrices and fitting meta-models

Points of Contact:

Matt Glass                                                                  
matthew.glass3.civ@us.navy.mil
301.342.9417      

Josh Darrow
joshua.m.darrow2.civ@us.navy.mil
301.342.9410