Total 37 Others level Science / R&D / Research job vacancies in Camp Springs, Maryland

**This is an interdisciplinary job. Series assigned to individual positions under this job will be determined based on the selectee's paramount qualifications at the time of selection.**

The incumbent of this position will serve as the Army's leading authority on the development and utilization of intelligent technologies for current and future mobility systems; this position is within the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (DEVCOM ARL), Intramural Research Directorate (IRD). Advises senior leaders, managers, and technologists on strategic research efforts, and will conduct unique independent investigations that lead and advance the state-of-the- art in intelligence systems. Provide Laboratory-wide and Command-wide benchmarks for scientific quality in intelligent systems research, providing cost- saving and time- saving advice to managers regarding decisions to initiate, continue, and/or terminate research efforts based on his/her technical expertise.

• The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity.
• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Plans, organizes, and conducts direct control operations to reduce wildlife damage within a geographical area or technical/subject area.
• Inspects and surveys areas and, as necessary, will revise existing WDM programs.
• Determines strategies and logistics for providing services.
• Uses WDM tools/devices which may include some or all of the following depending on need in assigned area: firearms; foothold, body-grip, cage traps; foot snares; neck snares; chemical control methods.
• Utilizes knowledge of WDM methods and strategies to independently recommend appropriate WDM strategies.
• Identifies current, and forecasts future, damage problems and relates them to the damage-causing species.
• Modifies or adapts established damage control techniques as necessary to meet local conditions.
• Assists in the negotiation of cooperative service agreements with landowners, lessees, or administrators.

• Serve as an advocate for the scientific content of the various projects and research activities being conducted within the Ocean Ecology Laboratory in support of NASA GSFC’s Earth Science Division.
• Oversee and manage Lab operations including research and mission strategizing, supervision of staff, and budget.
• Conduct personnel management activities including workforce planning, performance planning and evaluation, hiring, recommending employee promotions/recognition, approving timecards and leave, and taking corrective actions as needed.
• Recommend strategic objectives for the organization in accordance with NASA programmatic goals.
• Initiate and cultivate collaborations between Ocean Ecology Lab members and personnel in other GSFC laboratories and external organizations.
• Serve as an internationally recognized expert, technical authority, and technical advisor/consultant on ocean biogeochemistry and its relationship with other Earth system processes, specifically through the application of remote-sensing data.
• Develop and maintain a research portfolio in one’s chosen area of oceanographic science, which may involve writing and submitting proposals for scientific investigations, hiring research associates, and collaborating with other scientists.
• Perform a full range of supervisory duties which includes assigning and evaluating work; recommending personnel actions; taking disciplinary actions; and identifying training needs and developing employees.
• Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

In this position, you will:

• Convert data to database format and upload to a database
  • As a part of a team, the Trainee will modify computer code to convert data to the appropriate format
  • Execute the script and compile data in the prescribed folder
  • As a part of a team, the Trainee will modify computer code to uploaded formatted data to internal databases
• Verify and Validate
  • Review the converted and uploaded to ensure the information is correct with the raw data
• Collaborate and Communicate with team
  • Timely and high quality completion of tasks in support of work conducted by the team
  • Timely and high quality communication with team members on the status of Trainees activities

• You will perform Acquisition Cost Estimating and Analysis for primarily complex systems in all phases of the life cycle (development, production, and sustainment).
• You will develop and maintain processes, tools, and training in the area of Acquisition Cost Estimating and Analysis.
• You will develop the data sources, cost models, cost estimates and formal documentation necessary to ensure that management decisions are based on sound estimating and analysis principals.

Oversee the identification, analysis, and participation in the development of acquisition strategies based on requirements (e.g., technical, management, cost, past performance) and develop contracting documentation (e.g., Acquisition Plan, source selection plan, Statement of Work) consistent with laws, regulations, policy, and other guidelines.

Lead the execution of the award, provide notifications, conduct debriefings to offerors, defend protests, and designate a COTR.

Lead team to finalize pre-award documentation packages and solicitations consistent with requirements documents and amend solicitations when it is in the best interest of the Government.

Engage relevant parties to prepare negotiation strategies and positions and lead a team to reach agreements on cost/price, and terms and conditions during pre-award and contract administration.

Plan and coordinate the review and evaluation responses to solicitations against the criteria established in the solicitation to make source selection decisions considering factors such as cost, technical/management approach, schedule, security, and past performance.

Manage contractor performance and compliance with the agreed upon terms and conditions. Administer contracts including executing contract modifications and changes.

Manage the financial aspects of contract administration such as cost/pricing remedies, authorizing payments, recovering debts, and detecting fraud.

Ensure all contract requirements have been completed, settle outstanding actions, perform contract closeouts, and archive records.

• You will develop and implement NAVAIR investment strategies for Naval Aviation Weapon Systems Defensive Cyber Solutions.
• You will establish, coordinate, and implement NAVAIR Command Cyber Warfare and related procedures in accordance with NAVAIR, Navy and DoD Cybersecurity and System Security Engineering requirements mandated by law and/or regulations.
• You will build a culture of collaboration among NAVAIR Echelon II/III/IV Cybersecurity professionals, including cybersecurity and systems security engineering professionals.
• You will coordinate with V5X Cyber Planning and Response Center (CPRC) Director and NAVAIR Red Team Director to ensure strategic engagement of both capabilities across the Naval Aviation Enterprise.
• You will provide expertise across a broad spectrum of disciplines which encompass the range of technologies related to complex naval air weapons systems.
• You will require the ability to exploit the potential technological advances to the maximum advantage of the Navy and the Nation in both offensive and defensive cyber domains.

• Direct Goddard’s Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Lab to study changes in atmospheric composition affecting radiation, air quality, and ozone. Align with NASA’s mission and foster impactful research outcomes.
• Build partnerships across NASA, federal agencies, and global science to extend lab impact. Integrate satellite data, models, and observations to advance collaborative studies on atmospheric composition.
• Promote technology innovation in remote sensing, data science, and AI to position the lab as a leader in atmospheric chemistry. Drive development of advanced methods to enhance understanding of long-term changes in atmospheric composition.
• Ensure timely delivery of scientific research and technical outputs supporting the lab’s mission. Manage resources, commit funds early, mitigate risks, and achieve milestones, maintaining NASA’s high standards for scientific excellence.
• Address team needs to build a skilled, adaptable workforce supporting the lab’s mission. Encourage learning in key areas like modeling, remote sensing, and trace gas monitoring to enhance understanding of atmospheric composition.
• Lead efforts to secure research opportunities, missions, and field experiments aligned with lab priorities. Support proposal development and partnerships to advance studies on stratospheric ozone, tropospheric composition, and climate impacts.
• Foster a diverse and inclusive work culture within the lab, supporting outreach efforts to attract qualified candidates from varied backgrounds. Promote an environment that values diverse perspectives, enhancing research quality and team performance.
• Advance mission outcomes through automation, collaborative technologies, and digital transformation. Implement practices to improve operational and scientific productivity, supporting atmospheric composition research goals.
• Perform a full range of supervisory duties which includes assigning and evaluating work; recommending personnel actions; taking disciplinary actions; and identifying training needs and developing employees.
• Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

In this position, you will:

• Develops optical and electrical particle characterization methods and applies those methods to reference materials of interest to the biopharmaceutical community, and oversees operation of an X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) laboratory to provide surface characterization capabilities to researchers from multiple NIST divisions.
• Conducts reference material method development and operations of XPS laboratory with minimal management supervision.
• Scope of XPS tasks include development and maintenance of instrument capabilities, training of and guidance to users, monitoring instrument performance, initiating necessary corrective actions, promoting safe operations, and communicating instrument issues with users, thereby ensuring continued quality and availability of XPS instrument to NIST user group.
• Conducts research in particle characterization and XPS characterization of surfaces, leading to reference materials or contributions to papers that support industrial applications in these areas.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY

As a Supervisory Health Scientist Administrator, GS-0601-15, you will use your knowledge and experience to optimize business results and customer experience by:

1. Supervising a professional staff who oversees research and evidence reviews.
2. Overseeing the development of a scientific portfolio.
3. Serving as a Contracting Officer Representative (COR) to manage research projects related to evidence-based medicine and evidence synthesis.

• Write and edit programs (R, SAS, SQL, or Python) to query relational database, organize and analyze data from IMPACII or other relational database.
• Share programming code (R, SAS, SQL or Python), document steps of analysis and collaborate with team to ensure transparent and reproducible results.
• Investigate and provide collaborative feedback to team and leadership in understanding and editing programs (R, SAS, SQL or Python) for data anomalies, data integrity, nuances and other unexpected patterns in the data.
• Apply statistical techniques, models and tests to gain insight into the data and inform direction of subsequent analysis and explanation of significance of differences observed in the data.
• Write narrative explanations and interpretations of data findings, results and create summaries of the data as part of larger comprehensive analysis.
• Utilize scientific research methodologies and approaches to develop testable hypotheses to answer questions pertaining to scientific portfolio analyses for program staff and leadership.

• Duties described below are at the highest grade advertised. Duties assigned at lower grade levels will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity; duties will be commensurate with the grade of selected employee.
• Onboard, validate, and maintain the set of Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere (ITM) models at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) and provide expert science support for expert-guided simulation services to the research community.
• Lead independent and collaborative cutting-edge scientific research on the lower atmosphere.
• Implement data-assimilation methodologies into ITM models at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC).
• Support inter-Divisional efforts to develop a comprehensive coupled modeling system from the ground to the upper ionosphere.
• Support current and future ITM missions from concept design to Phase E with relevant modeling.
• Maintain existing productive partnerships and establish new ones with the Moon to Mars (M2M) SWAO, other Divisions and Centers, NOAA/SWPC, NCAR, USAF/USSF, and other end users.
• Represent the Space Weather Laboratory (SWL) and the CCMC at professional meetings, workshops, and conferences to publicize the value of our ITM resources for the heliophysics and space weather communities.
• Publish in peer reviewed journals, present at national and international conferences and workshops, conduct technical reviews, and provide similar services to the heliophysics and space weather communities.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on neutral atmosphere-ionosphere coupling, effects of tides and gravity waves on the upper atmosphere ("space weather from below"), and orbital drag.
• Serve as Project Scientist, Mission Scientist, or Instrument PI/Co-I on ITM missions; supervise a team of CCMC ITM scientists (contractors and post-docs).
• Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

• Directs the activities of the staff assigned to the Branch.
• Reviews and approves policy and program actions within delegated authorities, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations and guidelines, and consistency with sound management practices.
• Consults with leaders from nonprofit organizations, professional associations, and scientific communities to inform neuroscience education, public liaison, and outreach efforts.
• Oversees and collaborates in conducting in-depth analyses of significant scientific and policy issues and subject matter areas to guide the research agenda and to influence and participate in the development of plans, priorities, and initiatives.
• Prepares materials for the Institute Director and other senior leaders on scientific issues and links to recurring and special activities.
• Develops, refines, and shares strategic engagement frameworks and processes.
• Regularly represents NINDS in interactions with senior staff at national organizations for the purpose of increasing awareness of the NINDS/NIH mission and partnering around shared priorities.
• Coordinates and oversees efforts and activities to engage with nonprofit organizations and to conduct science education outreach.
• Provides guidance for and oversight of the Institute’s strategy to engage with people with lived experience.

• Directs the activities of the staff assigned to the Branch.
• Reviews and approves policy and program actions within delegated authorities, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations and guidelines, and consistency with sound management practices.
• Consults with leaders from nonprofit organizations, professional associations, and scientific communities to inform neuroscience education, public liaison, and outreach efforts.
• Oversees and collaborates in conducting in-depth analyses of significant scientific and policy issues and subject matter areas to guide the research agenda and to influence and participate in the development of plans, priorities, and initiatives.
• Prepares materials for the Institute Director and other senior leaders on scientific issues and links to recurring and special activities.
• Develops, refines, and shares strategic engagement frameworks and processes.
• Regularly represents NINDS in interactions with senior staff at national organizations for the purpose of increasing awareness of the NINDS/NIH mission and partnering around shared priorities.
• Coordinates and oversees efforts and activities to engage with nonprofit organizations and to conduct science education outreach.
• Provides guidance for and oversight of the Institute’s strategy to engage with people with lived experience.

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Duties common to a GS-05 Physical Science Technician:

• These positions work in a variety of program areas such as Water Resources, GIS, Caves, Geology, Air and/or Water Quality, etc. Duties will vary by location.
• Assists with and/or implements established natural resource management projects (e.g., field examinations, field surveys, inventories, etc.) related to one or more of the physical sciences.
• Collects and organizes field data following instructions and standardized procedures. Performs routine and recurring testing of collected samples.
• Monitors and evaluates conditions in assigned program area. Evaluates observed conditions and problems and makes preliminary determinations on the cause of problems noted.
• Utilizes a variety of computer programs to compile, reduce, store, retrieve, analyze, and report data and other resource management information, including natural science research and long-term monitoring projects.