Senior Strategic Acquisition and Industry Engagement Advisor

Description

Knight Federal Solutions is a trusted provider to industry leading prime contractors, the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. We have established a company culture that supports our employees, their families and the communities in which they live and work. When you join our team you belong to a group of people that work hard, strive for greatness and care about people.

Our hard work is evident in everything we do. Whether it be supporting large government programs in the areas of Simulation and Training, Information Technology, Intelligence or Engineering we always strive to be the best. It is for this reason that we have been recognized as a World Class Team Supplier by Northrop Grumman and were also named one of Florida's fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine.

As Knight Federal Solutions continues to grow, we look forward to hiring the best and the brightest to join us in our success!

Senior Strategic Acquisition and Industry Engagement ETA Advisors provides strategic, acquisition, programmatic, and industry-engagement support to government personnel assessing emerging technologies for Army intelligence and related mission environments.

Advisors evaluate whether commercial and nontraditional capabilities are operationally relevant, acquisition-ready, affordable, supportable, and suitable for transition. Support includes assessing market conditions, business viability, intellectual property (IP), data rights, supply-chain resilience, funding, schedule, contracting approaches, and organizational readiness.

This position provides advisory and decision-support services only and does not perform inherently governmental functions.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Support government-led engagements with commercial firms, nontraditional and traditional defense contractors, investors, academic institutions, laboratories, and other technology providers.
• Prepare engagement strategies, executive read-aheads, stakeholder maps, meeting objectives, discussion guides, vendor summaries, and follow-up trackers.
• Assess technology candidates and vendors for mission alignment, acquisition pathway, business viability, transition sponsorship, resource requirements, risks, and recommended next actions.
• Develop and maintain a technology-opportunity pipeline and support portfolio reviews, business-case analyses, and transition planning.
• Draft decision memoranda, issue papers, executive summaries, briefings, meeting records, and risk assessments for senior government leaders.
• Translate technical, commercial, financial, operational, and acquisition information into clear, decision-ready recommendations.
• Advise government personnel on industry-engagement practices that preserve fairness, impartiality, procurement integrity, organizational-conflict-of-interest awareness, and separation of market research from formal acquisition activities.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, acquisition management, public administration, national security studies, economics, program or engineering management, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• At least 15 years of progressively responsible experience in defense acquisition, federal program management, technology transition, capability development, industry engagement, commercial technology, or related national-security work.
• Experience supporting federal or defense acquisition activities, including market research, requirements support, acquisition planning, and program management.
• Knowledge of acquisition, resourcing, cost, schedule, performance, and program-risk considerations.
• Experience assessing commercial firms or emerging technologies for adoption by government, defense, intelligence, or similarly complex enterprises.
• Familiarity with IP, software licensing, data rights, supply-chain risk, and vendor viability.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare executive-level products, brief senior leaders, engage credibly with government and industry stakeholders, and synthesize complex information into actionable recommendations.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced degree in business administration, public policy, acquisition management, national security, engineering management, economics, or a related field.
• Experience supporting the Army, Joint Force, Department of War, Intelligence Community, or another federal national-security organization.
• Experience as a program, product, acquisition, portfolio, or technology-transition manager; business-development executive; or senior defense-industry leader.
• Experience with nontraditional acquisition, commercial technology engagement, rapid prototyping, experimentation, small-business engagement, defense innovation organizations, or venture-backed technology firms.
• Familiarity with Army intelligence missions, systems, modernization priorities, data environments, or enterprise requirements.
• DAWIA, PMP, or comparable acquisition, program management, business, Agile, or project-management credential.
• Experience in business-case development, investment or affordability analysis, and portfolio management.

Core Competencies

• Acquisition and programmatic analysis
• Technology-transition strategy
• Industry engagement and market research
• Executive communication and stakeholder coordination
• Commercial-market and industrial-base awareness
• Cost, schedule, performance, and risk analysis
• Procurement integrity and objective advisory support

Knight Federal Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other protected classification.