Strategic Advisor Support

Strategic Advisor Support, Falls Church, VA: PEO MS/CIO(J-6) requires consulting  expertise from personnel highly experienced in Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition and  contracting processes to develop new acquisition strategies and contracting approaches. The  following are critical Acquisition Regulatory related activities but are not limited to regulatory  areas that must be considered. 

*Provide acquisition planning and strategic advice to identify,  understand, analyze, articulate, and ensure compliance with acquisition (especially information  technology) contracting regulations, guidelines, policies, processes/procedures. 

*Provide strategic advice on specific recommendations identified by  the Section 809 Panel pending revisions to DoD Small Business strategy based on Section 851 of  the FY 2019 NDAA, and acquisition reform provisions included in future National Defense  Authorization Acts. 

*Provide strategic advice and guidance related to acquisition planning,  but not limited to, non-personal services, hardware and software acquisition practices, agile  acquisition approaches and techniques, smarter use of common contract solutions and practices,  best practices and state-of-the art techniques in fair opportunity and source selection. 

*Provide strategic advice and guidance on Acquisition of Software for  Defense Systems, Intellectual Property and Data Rights, current DoD cloud services acquisition  initiatives, pending revisions to DoD Small Business strategies, and acquisition reform  provisions included in recent and future NDAA. 

*Provide Acquisition Support training to ITBSR and PEO MS/CIO(J-6)  staff. Additionally, the contractor shall help articulate and guide the PEO MS/CIO(J-6)  acquisition process to address DHA acquisition needs across the innovation lifecycle, where  appropriate, from problem definition to scaling tech solutions and transitioning pilots to  programs of record. This shall include agile acquisition strategies and tech engagement in the  following areas:

* Horizon scanning to identify sector-specific mega-trends that can inform Government  mission readiness. 

* Identification and prioritization of use cases that will attract the best technology with the  greatest potential to improve mission outcomes. 

* Outreach and engagement to attract emerging tech companies for solicitation, industry  days, tech roundtables, and other events. 

* Tech scouting and vetting to source emerging tech solutions that can best support  Government mission needs. 

* Agile acquisition strategy and support designed to encourage nontraditional emerging  tech participation. 

Special Qualifications: The Strategic Advisors must have a minimum of 15 years DoD  acquisition experience and a master’s degree or two (2) additional years of experience in lieu of  the master's degree requirement. Additionally, the Strategic Advisors are experts who  demonstrate through leadership in their area of expertise through publications, speaking  engagements, media citations, or other recognized interactions, by having actively participated  and contributed to one or multiple acquisition DoD reforms in one of the following panels and/or  DoD acquisition innovations boards below: 

*Section 809 Panel (Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Regulations) *Section 813 Panel on Intellectual Property and Data Rights report and recommendations 

*Defense Innovation Board (DIB) Software Acquisition Practices (SWAP) report and  recommendations