Lead government relations and business development efforts, building relationships with DoD, Congress, and federal stakeholders to advance Bascom Hunter’s legislative, regulatory, and growth priorities.
Locations (2)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Responsibilities
Develop and execute a government relations strategy advancing Bascom Hunter's legislative, regulatory, appropriations, and growth priorities.
Build and sustain relationships with congressional members and staff, defense committees, DoD offices, program executive offices, and acquisition organizations.
Monitor defense authorization, appropriations, budget, and acquisition developments; advise leadership on implications and opportunities.
Educate policymakers and government stakeholders on Bascom Hunter's capabilities; coordinate briefings, site visits, and technology demonstrations.
Partner with the Chief Growth Officer to align congressional outreach, program funding initiatives, and government relations activities with business development priorities.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in political science, public policy, engineering, or a related field; advanced degree a plus.
Nice to have: prior service as active-duty military, DoD civilian, or congressional staff
Nice to have: existing active security clearance
Nice to have: engineering or technical background in defense electronics
Nice to have: familiarity with Bascom Hunter's core markets and existing DoD customer base
Lead the organization responsible for developing the company’s end-to-end technical solutions for new customer opportunities and strategic pursuits, overseeing a team of Communication Systems Architects to translate mission needs into complete system architectures.
Compensation
Full-time employment offers include company stock options and a generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability and retirement plans.
Responsibilities
Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Communication Systems Architects responsible for defining complete technical solutions for customer opportunities and strategic pursuits.
Ensure each pursuit has a clearly identified technical architect accountable for the end-to-end solution from customer need and CONOPS through architecture, requirements, proposal, and transition to execution.
Partner with customers and Business Development to understand mission objectives, operational needs, CONOPS, performance requirements, and constraints and translate them into differentiated system solutions.
Lead and review architecture-level trades across antennas, RF, digital processing, communications algorithms, firmware, software, networking, and system interfaces to optimize overall mission performance.
Partner with Business Development and Product leadership to assess opportunities, support pursue/no-pursue decisions, identify technical discriminators, and establish the technical strategy required to win.
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