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Special
Duty Summary: (Note: This is a special duty assignment
job). Performs as engineer, scientist, or engineering and scientific technician
in support of scientific or engineering research and applications functions
involving observation, study, and experimentation with the Human Systems
Division or with the Research and Technology Laboratories, the Air Force
Flight Test Center, or other Air Force activities. Related DoD Occupational
Subgroup: 496.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Participates in research or engineering projects. Participates in planning,
coordinating, collecting, evaluating, and interpreting data and writing
reports detailing the results of research or applied engineering investigations.
Explores and tests new ideas. Assists or conducts research on different
aspects of experimental problems in biological, physical, or social sciences;
engineering; or mathematics. Applies knowledge of scientific principles
to problems associated with scientific experimental objectives. Uses deductive
logic and reasoning from known scientific principles or rules to arrive
at conclusions about specific cases. Assists researchers or engineers,
or performs as the engineer responsible for the development or improvement
of materials and products. Checks materials quality and equipment performance.
Collects and analyzes material. Performs as research worker or engineering
technician aide in collecting information on experimental problems. Studies
technical journals and books to determine results of prior research on
problems. Provides abstracts or summaries of factual information relative
to the problem, and assists in developing possible solutions. Performs
other duties that use specific, specialized expertise possessed by the
individual.
Provides specialized management for acquisition programs. Directs and
participates in efforts to establish the technical, military, and economic
bases for a program in the conceptual phase, throughout the validation,
full scale engineering development, and production and deployment phases
of the acquisition life cycle. Interfaces with defense contractors.
Performs program office management. Assists the program manager by performing
various managerial and supervisory tasks associated with such functions
as program control, configuration management, test and deployment, engineering,
and integrated logistics support. Assesses the program office's overall
performance, and prepares status briefings for the program manager's use.
Prepares key program documentation such as the program management plan
and the integrated logistics support plan. Takes part in organization,
administration, and configuration management and preparing and executing
system and subsystem management. Serves as project officer or manager
for a discrete portion of a system, either hardware or software, and system
integration. Responsible for identifying and resolving all subsystem,
hardware, and software interface or logistic problems in support of system
design.
Special Duty Qualifications:
Knowledge. Knowledge is mandatory of research and scientific experimentation
procedures and engineering practices.
Education. For entry into this specialty, it is desirable to possess
a bachelor's degree in physical sciences, engineering, or biology; or
a minimum of 60 hours of mathematics and 12 semester hours of science
oriented courses such as physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, logistics,
and industrial or computer science (or equivalent technical academic courses).
Training. Not used.
Experience. A minimum of 12 months "hands-on" expertise
in an area of specialization listed above, Duties and Responsibilities,
which can be effectively utilized in a specific Air Force Research and
Development activity is mandatory. This mandatory requirement can be satisfied
by meeting one of the desirable education requirements above.
Other. Not used.
Strength Req: G
Physical Profile 333333
Citizenship N0
Required
Appitude Score: G-30
Technical
Training:
Course #:N/A
Length (Days):
N/A
Location: N/A
Possible
Assignment Information
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