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Director of Mission and Systems Interoperability
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Posted 57 days ago
About the Role
The Director of the Mission and Systems Interoperability (M&SI) Office serves as the senior executive responsible for defining, governing, and integrating the cross-program mission integration and systems interoperability architecture required for the Moon Base Program and its enabling mission portfolio.
What You'll Do
- →The Director of Mission and Systems Interoperability, Provides enterprise-level leadership across the Moon Base Programs and Offices to ensure mission, system, and operational plans comply with Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate (HSMD) strategic direction and Moon Base campaign objectives.
- →Leads the definition, governance, and continual evolution of Moon Base interoperability frameworks, including communications, power, habitation, mobility, logistics, autonomy, and surface operations inspired by insights and requirements emerging from the Ignition presentation.
- →Supports the Program Manager, Moon Base to develop program processes, procedures, architectural guardrails, and long-term technical priorities that reflect evolving campaign realities and stakeholder expectations.
- →Conducts and oversees mission-level analysis, systems interoperability assessments, and system-of-systems engineering to ensure all Moon Base elements function cohesively and meet campaign goals for sustainability, compatibility, and operational integration.
- →Ensures cross-program interfaces-technical, functional, operational, and programmatic-are defined, baselined, managed, and verified throughout development, operations, and incremental surface build out.
- →Maintains configuration control across the Moon Base Program, including interoperability standards, interface control documents, requirements, and cross-mission technical baselines.
- →Owns the end-to-end requirements architecture for the Moon Base Program, including requirements definition, allocation, flowdown, traceability, and interface compliance verification across all program and project elements.
- →Ensures that requirements for Artemis and other Mission Directorates are captured, negotiated, documented, controlled, and integrated into the Moon Base requirements set.
- →Oversees verification and validation (V&V) strategies and execution for Moon Base system interoperability, mission integration, and environmental compatibility.
- →Maintains and executes processes for Certification of Flight Readiness (CoFR) for Artemis missions that contribute to or rely upon Moon Base operations and infrastructure.
- →Supports integrated risk management activities across the Moon Base in alignment with program constructs and governance.
- →Directs mission-specific technical engineering analyses supporting Moon Base development, operations, logistics, systems performance, and campaign integration, advising the Moon Base Program Manager and Agency stakeholders on required actions, trades, and risk-related strategies.
Requirements
- ✓This position has a positive education requirement.
- ✓To be eligible, you must clearly state in your resume the following: degree, major and/or minor, and college/university.
- ✓A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.
- ✓A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major study in engineering, physical science, mathematics, life sciences, computer science, or other field of science is required.
- ✓An official transcript will be required if you are selected.
- ✓SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs.
- ✓These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.
- ✓For further information, click here.
Personality Fit
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