Strategic Acquisition Advisor

Strategic Acquisition Advisor

Requirements

• Master’s degree or two (2) additional years of experience in lieu of the master’s degree requirement.
• Fifteen (15) years DoD acquisition experience.
• Ability to demonstrate through leadership in their area of expertise through publications, speaking engagements, media citations, or other recognized interactions.
• Actively participated and contributed to one or multiple acquisition DOD reforms in one of the following panels and/or DoD acquisition boards: Section 809 Panel (Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Regulation); AND/OR, Section 813 Panel on Intellectual Property and Data Rights report and recommendations; AND/OR Defense Innovation Board (DIB) Software Acquisition Practices (SWAP) report and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Perform acquisition planning and strategic advice to identify, understand, analyze, articulate, and ensure compliance with acquisition (especially information technology) contracting regulations, guidelines, policies, processes/procedures.
• Provide strategic advice on specific recommendations identified by the Section 809 Panel pending revisions to DoD Small Business strategy based on Section 851 of the FY 2019 NDAA, and acquisition reform provisions included in future National Defense Authorization Acts.
• Provide strategic advice and guidance related to acquisition planning, but not limited to, non-personal services, hardware and software acquisition practices, agile acquisition approaches and techniques, smarter use of common contract solutions and practices, best practices and state-of-the art techniques in fair opportunity and source selection.
• Provide strategic advice and guidance on Acquisition of Software for Defense Systems, Intellectual Property and Data Rights, current DoD cloud services acquisition initiatives, pending revisions to DoD Small Business strategies, and acquisition reform provisions included in recent and future NDAA.
• Train staff and guide the acquisition process to address agency acquisition needs across the innovation lifecycle, where appropriate, from problem definition to scaling tech solutions and transitioning pilots to programs of record.
• Perform horizon scanning to identify sector-specific mega-trends that can inform Government mission readiness.
• Provide identification and prioritization of use cases that will attract the best technology with the greatest potential to improve mission outcomes.
• Conduct outreach and engagement to attract emerging tech companies for solicitation, industry days, tech roundtables, and other events.
• Perform tech scouting and vetting to source emerging tech solutions that can best support Government mission needs.
• Implement agile acquisition strategy and support designed to encourage nontraditional emerging tech participation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with medical acquisition regulations and policy.
• Experience with MS Office applications