Total 16 Science / R&D / Research job vacancies in Fort Sam Houston, Texas

• Supervises a staff of Market Analysts, Program Analysts, Material/Industrial Engineers, and Economists.
• Places exceptional emphasis on implementing and administering regulations governing the safeguarding of classified information, assuring that subordinates are trained and fully comply with the provisions of security regulations.
• Provides leadership and management to a staff of highly technical professionals responsible for coordinating, developing, and maintaining plans for the operation of Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Strategic Materials.
• Analyzes and modifies short-and-long-range plans, programs, and objectives, recommending major changes to ensure the best possible level of support to the customer, stakeholders, and organization.
• Serves as the primary focal point on numerous issues related to the identification of strategic and critical material requirements and major application areas, and development of cost effective and responsive risk mitigation plans.
• Works closely and collaborates with high level management/personnel from DLA, Military Services, Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD), Joint Staff, other Department of Defense (DoD) and federal entities, US and foreign industry and governments.
• Keeps the Administrator informed on marketing factors such as changes in supply/demand, production, consumption, imports/exports, prices and stock levels and their influence on markets for stockpile materials sales program.

• As an Operations Research Analyst, you will perform the following duties which is not an all-inclusive list:
• Serve as a system analyst team member or an individual analyst.
• Plan and organize assignments, analyzing assignments to determine individual problems to be considered.
• Review reports of prior work in the field to determine what available solutions can be used.
• Participate in the statistical design of qualitative assessments tests, development of independent evaluation plans, snd subsequent analyses for assigned projects.

• Review format and content requirements for all nursing grant applications submitted by nursing personnel.
• Advise prospective nurse investigators on technical (regulatory and other formal criteria) and procedural requirements for protocol development.
• Ensure research protocols are in compliance with BAMC, Institutional Review Board (IRB) and/or the funding agency's regulations.
• Maintain correspondence with funding agencies to report problems or concerns in accordance with their regulations.
• Assist research assistants who perform a variety of clerical and receptionist duties.
• Design graphics to visually enhance the web site.

• Incumbent independently performs technical duties in support of professional scientists conducting research projects in one or another of the fields of timber, recreation, wildlife, watershed, forest management, or forest fire research.
• A combination of two or more of the following duties are typical of those performed by the incumbent.
• Sets up laboratory equipment for making a variety of scientific measurements and observations of sample materials gathered from experimental field plots.
• Analyzes experimental data gathered in the lab by performing statistical manipulations on the data leading to basic conclusions and inferences, and accurately summarizes data.
• Locates study areas and study plots in the field according to requirements of a study plan or instructions of supervisor.
• Sets up standard equipment for performing any of a variety of field studies; compiles data from field and laboratory observations; analyzes data; and completes and documents data sheets.
• Observes, measures, and records a variety of scientific phenomena that affect forest, range, or watershed conditions.
• Operates scientific or precision instruments, calculating machines, and laboratory apparatus as required.
• Assists in developing and adapting sensing and recording instrumentation and in establishing and calibrating instruments for specific experiments.
• Maintains and makes minor modifications to sensing and recording instruments.
• Uses computers, calculators, recorders and other equipment to assist in compiling and reducing data from laboratory and/or field studies.

• Position entails a variety of technical laboratory analyses evaluating food and water for the presence of harmful bacteria and other microbial agents to include diagnostic tests and technical support work in the fields of microbiology and immunology.
• Assist in the preparation of routine and special media, reagents, stains, and other supplemental items needed for the growth of microbial organisms.
• Participate in method verifications, validations and other investigative projects and laboratory analyses as assigned.
• Operate specialized equipment (microscopes, autoclaves, balances, centrifuges, Vitek, Atlas, Vidas, stomachers, biological safety cabinets, and fingerprinting equipment items etc).
• Maintain stocks of microbiological diagnostic reagents, Petri dishes, pipettes, and consumable supplies in order to sustain an adequate inventory.
• Report unusual and significant results to the Microbiology Supervisor by inputting information into worksheets, logbooks and charts.

• Maintains inventory of chemicals, stock solutions.
• Collects, prepares, evaluates and verifies samples and supporting records.
• Keeps detailed records of experimental data.
• Tabulates, statistically analyzes and summarizes data using personal computers and software packages.

As a Biological Science Technician your duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Participating in multi-faceted wildlife studies, including carrying out a variety of research and survey methods, analyzing established data, and monitoring environmental elements related to conservation, management, and/or control of wildlife.
• Surveying and observing avian populations, looking for abundance, behavior, habitat, sex and age structure, and seasonal movements.
• Assisting in collecting data on hatchery populations to study health and propagation methods.
• Participating in multi-faceted plant studies, including carrying out a variety of research and survey methods, analyzing established data, and monitoring environmental elements such as temperature, humidity, etc., and how it impacts plant health.
• Surveying locations for invasive species populations and working with biologists to outline a plan to minimize or remove invasive species.

• Responsible for managing the collection and analysis of data; and provide regular reporting of metrics, insights and findings related to industry engagements and technology evaluation to leadership.
• Collaborate with the AFC Data and Platform Division team to develop and manage data ingestion and analysis tools, to include development of Microsoft PowerBI data visualizations
• Coordinate across the various organizations within Army Futures Command to ensure standardization of data collection and analysis
• Develop and manage business tools for internal business practices and processes

• Develop and maintain Risk Approach Plans to characterize and mitigate each risk assigned to the Element and maintain awareness of crew health and performance concerns and issues associated with Artemis missions.
• Work closely with the Element Manager to ensure that scientific activities in the Element are synchronized with the Element schedule, cost, and milestones.
• Lead the discipline scientist team and collaborate with academia, industry, other government agencies and International Partners to enable integrated research activities.
• Develop research solicitations, review scientific proposals, and recommend selections for award.
• Communicate research status, results and risks to the Human Research Program leadership team and stakeholder organizations.
• Support Program level integration teams and activities and represent those teams as required to external organizations, panels, or committees.
• 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.

• Develop cost-effective methods for controlling foodborne pathogens associated with poultry and livestock.
• Provide new information necessary to rationally design strategies to increase resistance against foodborne pathogen colonization in food producing animals.
• Enhance the safety of food supplies derived from commercially reared animals.
• Generate critical transcriptomic and kinomic data on host-pathogen interactions of Salmonella and other foodborne pathogens.
• Elucidate effective immunometabolic molecular targets for intervention in the host-pathogen network that can be exploited by commercially viable intervention strategies, techniques, and technologies.
• Characterize and define in-feed/water interventions to ameliorate foodborne infections.
• Determine molecular immunometabolic biomarkers of foodborne pathogen colonization in host animals and virulence factors in foodborne pathogens to aid in detection and intervention efforts.

• As a Supervisory Operations Research Analyst, you will perform duties to include, but not limited to the following:
• Serves as a senior operations research analyst and Division Chief, supervising a professional staff of military and civilian operations research analysts and other technical and support personnel.
• Performs the daily supervision of division personnel, to include assignment of work, reviewing and accepting their products, identifying training requirements, establishing performance objectives and performing evaluations.
• Applies professional knowledge and broad experience in operations research and systems analysis (ORSA) to the study and analysis of force structure, doctrine, materiel, and training or to the development of methodologies, models and analytic tools.
• Participates in and oversees the preparation of the final study/project report and assures that any analysis or methodology appendices prepared elsewhere are integrated into that document.
• Reviews studies/projects for analytical soundness and consistency and prepares comments and recommendations in accordance with TRAC guidance and policy for production and quality oversight.

• Develop the strategic research approach to reducing the risk of adverse events due to space radiation exposure.
• Identify topic areas for national research solicitations and evaluate new proposals and directed research for merit and relevance and provide relevance and feasibility recommendations to the Human Research Program Chief Scientist.
• Manage issues of conflict-of-interest, bias, and confidentiality to ensure fairness and credibility of the proposal, evaluation, selection, award, and administration of Federal awards.
• Oversee and analyze the funded research progress to understand and respond to research results having significant impact to the research approach or any of the risks and updating the approach in response.
• Work directly with the appropriate scientists and clinicians to implement the science established by the research approach and successfully close out the associated human health and performance risks.
• Work closely with NASA Medical Operations personnel to facilitate the transition of research results into clinical practice.
• As a clinical specialist, ensure the scientific components carried out by the Element are focused on mitigating operationally relevant risks and developing countermeasures, clinical guidelines and/or technologies that support exploration missions.
• Provide expertise for the integration and coordination of the radiation research and expertise with other HRP Elements, the Translational Research Institute for Space Health or with other NASA organizations as necessary.
• Coordinate national or international collaborations to identify research approaches by other US or International Agencies that should be leveraged by NASA.
• Ensure all Element scientific or technological activities and plans are synchronized with the Element schedule, cost, procurement plans, and delivery milestones.
• 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.

• Responsible for formulating and guiding the identification, acquisition, sustainment, and deployment of test technologies, simulations, instrumentations, test support networks, test control systems for operational testing and experimentation.
• Oversees a validation, verification, and accreditation program, employing a risk-based approach to support and inform test technology requirements.
• Applies knowledge of systems engineering/ systems analysis concepts, simulation and data collection technologies, mathematics, and statistics.

• Conduct basic and applied research to improve environmental and economic resilience and crop water productivity of various irrigated and dryland cropping systems.
• Develop and refine innovative practices to manage water for sustainable agriculture production for marginally irrigated and dryland cropping systems in a region with increasingly limited availability of water for irrigation.
• Conduct supporting research to enhance the understanding of crop response to water, improve the accuracy of soil water and plant monitoring, and develop and assess water management strategies.

• Discuss edited drafts with authors to explain suggested changes in content or format.
• Tactfully explain reasons for any needed changes to authors to secure their cooperation.
• Review manuscripts to assure consistency, and understand and apply necessary copyright laws and permissions, and analyze conclusions to ensure they are consistent with the facts presented.
• Edit written material for use at national and international medical and scientific meetings in support of the broad mission of the Borden Institute.
• Determine and recommend advisability of reorganization, condensation or deletion, and rewriting to clarify confusing passages, and adjust stylistic and logical approaches, refine research methods, and select appropriate information to present.
• Ensure compliance of reprinted material with copyright law and respond to problems or inquiries relating to assigned manuscripts or policy interpretation.
• Edit entire textbooks with an average of 25 chapters on different subjects, as well as visual technical information including tables and figures.