Technical Program Manager, Digital Test & Evaluation

About the role

AAC DOD Programs is hiring a Technical Program Manager and Subject Matter Expert in Digital Test & Evaluation (T&E) in Mountain View, California. The incumbent helps translate traditional defense T&E requirements and workflows into modern, software-enabled test environments, and supports efforts to prototype and operationalize an enterprise Digital T&E ecosystem connecting users, tools, data, models, simulations, test resources and decision-makers. The role sits at the intersection of traditional T&E, digital engineering, software integration and commercial technology adoption.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage Digital T&E prototype efforts from problem definition and market research through technical diligence, pilot execution, user evaluation and transition.
• Translate military T&E workflows, capability claims, operational needs and program decisions into software requirements, user stories, integration requirements, acceptance criteria and measurable pilot outcomes.
• Design and evaluate end-to-end T&E workflows linking requirements, mission and systems engineering, modeling and simulation, test planning, execution, data collection, analysis, reporting and decision support.
• Apply test strategy and design to define Measures of Performance (MoPs), Measures of Effectiveness (MoEs), test objectives, data requirements, evidence thresholds and the mix of modeling and simulation, laboratory, cyber and physical-range testing.
• Serve as a technical integrator across Digital T&E tool categories such as mission engineering, systems engineering / MBSE, DevSecOps and CI/CD, modeling and simulation, test planning, risk management, test execution, test-data monitoring, test management, analysis, visualization, reporting and data governance.
• Develop and validate digital-thread concepts so that authoritative data and artifacts flow between engineering, test and assessment tools without manual re-entry or duplication.
• Coordinate integration of commercial software into defense R&D, test and evaluation infrastructure, including government and commercial cloud, edge environments, R&D networks and classified/unclassified enclaves, with cybersecurity, identity and access management, data protection, interoperability and accreditation in mind.
• Identify and resolve technical barriers related to APIs, data schemas, metadata, containerization, software deployment, network connectivity, data federation, tool interoperability and integration with systems of record.
• Conduct technical due diligence of commercial software and emerging T&E technologies, and create and lead collaborative teams to prototype, integrate, test and evaluate commercial Digital T&E solutions.
• Develop executive-level briefs, test concepts, pilot plans, integration roadmaps, decision memos and other documentation, and design, lead and manage prototype projects using rapid and non-traditional acquisition authorities where appropriate.
• Help define reusable T&E templates, reference workflows, data standards and interoperability patterns, and support technical demonstrations and limited-user tests.

Required profile

• Five or more years of directly relevant experience in defense Test & Evaluation, systems engineering, digital engineering, software-intensive acquisition or a closely related field.
• Working understanding of how defense T&E is planned, executed, analyzed and documented.
• Ability to work with test organizations, program offices, range and laboratory stakeholders, infrastructure and cybersecurity teams, operational users and commercial vendors.

Required skills

• Digital engineering, modeling and simulation
• Test-management software
• Data orchestration
• DevSecOps and CI/CD
• Cloud and edge computing
• Integration of commercial software within government networks and security boundaries