As an Physical Scientist, you will:
- Serve as the authority for the Army's Science and Technology portfolio of investments in individual ballistic and blast protection technologies and investigative approaches.
- Manage the full spectrum of research, development, and engineering programs in the area of individual protection with specific emphasis on ballistic and blast protection.
- Provide direction to developers of individual Warfighter protection systems to ensure integrate solutions are developed and successfully transitioned.
- Conceive, plan, and provide performance oversight to a portfolio of collaborative programs to develop new individual protection concepts and/or improve existing technologies with focus on reducing overall weight, minimizing negative impact on Warfighter performance and increasing protection levels.
- Serve as primary NSRDEC point of contact for PEO-Soldier and other Army and Joint PMs in all matters related to NSRDEC's portfolio of individual protection science and technology programs.
- Serve as expert advisor to personnel at NSRDEC, other agencies, commercial facilities, universities and foreign governments in the fields of individual protection with particular focus on ballistic and blast overpressure protection programs.
