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Research Strategy & Security Officer
Headquarters, NASA · Posted 85 days ago
On-site Washington, DC $217K – $223K Apply by Jul 22, 2026 General Physical Science ENTJESFJESTJISTJ Operations
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The Research Strategy and Security Officer (ReSSO) reports to the Associate Administrator (AA) for the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and works closely with the SMD's Deputy AA, the Deputy AA for Research, and the Science Directors to systematically implement and protect processes in accordance with the law and to protect research while sustaining the open science model.
What You'll Do
- →The Research Strategy & Security Officer: Delegated authority to make complex risk determinations on behalf of SMD.
- →Makes determinations that balance scientific merit against national-security risk to accept or decline institutional risk on SMD's behalf that withstand external scrutiny (Congress, Office of Inspector General, Government Accountability Office, etc.).
- →Member of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Subcommittee on Research Security and any associated working groups tasked with setting government-wide policy.
- →Coordinates with the intelligence and counterintelligence communities.
- →Ensures SMD policies comply with U.S.
- →Federal research security policies (Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors [CHIPS] for America Science Act, the National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 [NSPM-33], etc.).
- →Oversees SMD's institutional risk-acceptance to safeguard research integrity and address full foreign-affiliation transparency.
- →Sets the scientific-governance framework that protects SMD-funded science and technology from foreign exploitation while sustaining scientific openness.
- →Represents SMD in Congressional hearings and senior interagency/Federal bodies.
- →Coordinates research security compliance within SMD and ensures SMD has parity in senior Federal policy forums.
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.
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