Electromagnetic Spectrum Signals Management SME

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The Navy-Marine Corps Business Area is looking for an Electromagnetic Spectrum Signature Management SME to oversee Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA) C5ISR Systems support to Program Managers and the Fleet Marine Force (FMF). Our team is focused on providing engineering, testing and evaluation, and supports experimentation on C5ISR systems and amphibious and ground combat vehicle systems to inform acquisition decisions and make the FMF more capable. Contractors play a critical role in adding both essential expertise, as well as resourcing depth that allows for increased capacity.

• Monitors the electromagnetic spectrum to detect, analyze, and track potential threats, providing situational awareness for the USMC to prepare defensive measures and offensive options.
• Develop methods for spectrum monitoring using Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) hardware and software as well as custom tools and interfaces (spectrum analyzers, ETTUS USRP, related software, device interface protocols).
• Perform signal processing filtering and signal conditioning in radio communications.
• Develop and implement digital radio system components using SDRs.
• Identified root causes of technical issues and provided corrective actions.
• Efficiently deploy and integrate software DSP deployment scripts to improve continuous integration practices.
• Develop RF signal detection with an automatic spectrum monitoring and reporting capability.
• Use Signal Metadata Format (SigMF) industry standard to store and share sets of recorded signal data within MCTSSA for analysis.
• Develop and use tools in scripting environments such as MATLAB, LABVIEW, Python, and PowerShell to support data collection and reduction, model and algorithm design, collection and analysis automation, and event logging.
• Develop data analysis, presentation methods and tools that ease operator burden when characterizing baseline spectrum activity and searching for anomalous behavior.
• Report test results and communicate merits and/or limitations of execution and analysis methods employed.
• Perform Own-Force signature assessments (OFSA) for the smallest reconnaissance team or to entire MAGTF's in large scale exercises.
• Conduct wideband scans to determine overall EMS signature footprint, recognize advantageous areas to operate within the spectrum to "blend in" with the baseline, and confirm suspected periods of interference or jamming.
• Post event in-depth analysis to present the findings to target audiences.
• Develop reports for post event observations, identify best practice recommendations, present raw data captures, and inform the customer of the major waveforms/areas of interest identified.
• Provide onsite support and training on various spectrum system to the FMF.
• Document and develop Knowledgebase Articles (KBAs), system documentations, training guides and solutions on a continuous basis.
• Support local test and experimentation events.
• Use Spectrum Analyzers and capture measurements of known COTS emitters at various ranges.
• Perform Application of Threat Analysis (Tradeoff of Bandwidth vs. Resolution vs. Scan).

• Bachelor's Degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Experience and working knowledge of FDMA, CDMA, TDMA, and frequency hopping spectrum devices.
• Experience and working knowledge of FM, AM, and QM modulation techniques.
• Experience with RF tools such as Vector Network Analyzer (VNA), Spectrum analyzer, Spectrum Guard, Spectrum Defender, Radio Frequency Machine Learning Systems (RFMLS), Control Learning from Anomalies in a Wideband Spectrum (CLAWS), PR200, CEPTOR, Spectrum Vehicle, Spectrum Collection, Analysis, and Reporting System (SCARS), ETTUS USRP SDRs, GNU Radio, etc.
• Experience with radio and satellite communications in the commonly used commercial and military bands, to include, but not limited to High Frequency (HF), Very High Frequency (VHF), Ultra High Frequency (UHF), Super High Frequency (SHF).
• Working knowledge of antennas to include types, applications, and characteristics.
• Experience with common data products used with RF measuring, recording, and playback devices (IQ data, trace data).
• Working knowledge of local spectrum management, frequency de-confliction and submission of frequency/spectrum requests via regional spectrum managers.

• HAM radio license.
• Experience with USMC RF hardware such as PRC 160, 117G, 158, etc.
• Experience with RF waveforms such as SINCGARS, HAVEQUICK, SATURN, ANW2, etc.
• Ability to exploit, attack, and protect the Electromagnetic Spectrum operating environment.
• Ability to implement RF and DSP modulators and mixers techniques.
• Ability to implement beam forming and direction-finding techniques.
• Ability to code in Python with Software Define Radios (SDRs).