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Wild West Systems Inc.

Technical Program Manager

Leander, TX · Hybrid

$123K - $159K/yr

Leander, TX Employment Type: Full-time Company Overview Wild West Systems is an American defense ... Experience with counter-UAS, munitions, kinetic effectors, or related weapons systems programs

AITS

Systems Analyst - Mid (Fort Greely, AK)

Tampa, FL · On-site

Location: Fort Greely, AK Job Type: Full-Time Security Clearance: Must possess and maintain an ... Counter-UAS integration, and space-based communication systems. * Analyze and validate system ...

CACI International, Inc.

Operations Lead

Aberdeen, MD · On-site

Project and Program Management Time Type: Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI ... Experience supporting Counter-UAS, electronic systems, or other defense technology programs.

Booz Allen Hamilton

C-UAS Training Integrator

Anchorage, AK · On-site

$52K - $108K/yr

As a Counter - Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Training Integrator, you'll bring your expertise ... Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible ...

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How much do full time counter uas jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 9, 2026, the average hourly pay for full time counter uas in the United States is $16.04, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $14.42 and $17.55 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a full time counter UAS operator, and why are they important?

To excel as a Full Time Counter UAS Operator, you need a solid background in electronics, radar systems, and military or security protocols, often supported by relevant technical certifications or military experience. Familiarity with counter-drone technologies, threat detection software, and surveillance systems is typically required. Strong problem-solving skills, situational awareness, and effective communication are crucial soft skills for this role. These abilities are vital to ensure rapid threat identification, effective response, and overall mission success in protecting critical assets from unmanned aerial threats.

What is a full time counter UAS?

Full Time Counter UAS professionals are specialists who work to detect, track, and neutralize unmanned aerial systems (drones) that may pose security threats. They use a combination of technology, procedures, and intelligence to protect critical infrastructure, military installations, or public events from unauthorized or hostile drone activity. These professionals often operate advanced radar, radio frequency sensors, and electronic countermeasures as part of their job. Their expertise is essential in both military and civilian sectors to ensure safety and compliance with airspace regulations.

What is the difference between Full Time Counter Uas vs Full Time Drone Operator?

AspectFull Time Counter UasFull Time Drone Operator
CertificationsFAA Part 107, Counter-UAS trainingFAA Part 107, Drone pilot license
Work EnvironmentMilitary, government, security agenciesCommercial, media, surveying industries
Industry UsageCounter-UAS operations, threat detectionFilming, inspection, mapping

Full Time Counter Uas and Full Time Drone Operator both require FAA Part 107 certification. However, Counter Uas roles focus on detecting and mitigating unauthorized drone threats, often within security or military settings. Drone Operators typically fly drones for filming, surveying, or inspection purposes in commercial environments. While both involve drone operation, their primary functions and work environments differ significantly.

What are some common challenges faced by full time counter UAS operators, and how are they addressed within the team?

Full Time Counter UAS operators often face challenges such as rapidly evolving drone technologies, maintaining constant situational awareness, and managing complex detection equipment. These challenges are typically addressed through continuous training, regular equipment updates, and strong collaboration with security, IT, and operations teams. Operators usually participate in daily briefings and cross-functional meetings to share insights and coordinate responses, ensuring effective threat mitigation and professional growth.
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Director of Capture Management - Layered Defense, Autonomous Warfare & Integrated Fires

Astrion

Arlington, VA

$200K - $265K/yr

Full-time

Posted 23 days ago

Job description

Overview

Director of Capture Management - Layered Defense, Autonomous Warfare
& Integrated Fires

LOCATION: Huntsville, AL; Los Angeles, CA; Arlington, VA

JOB STATUS: Full-time

CLEARANCE: Secret Eligible (Top Secret preferred)

CERTIFICATION: N/A

TRAVEL: Up to 50% (Dependent on customer, pursuit, and mission needs)

SALARY RANGE: $200K to $265K

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an onsite Director of Capture Management - Layered Defense, Autonomous Warfare & Integrated Fires, to help shape growth in one of the most dynamic areas of modern defense. This is an exciting senior-level opportunity for a capture leader who understands how sensors, effectors, uncrewed systems, autonomy, electronic warfare, and fires are converging into new ways to defend assets, defeat threats, and extend combat power across domains.

In this role, you will partner with senior growth, mission, campaign, technical, and customer-facing leaders to shape opportunities that bring together layered detection, identification, tracking, defeat, autonomous teaming, AI-enabled mission software, counter-UAS, long-range fires, directed energy, operational test, training, and mission integration. This is a role for someone who can help Astrion move beyond traditional services capture and into integrated. Solution-led growth while seeing where the fight is going, understand what customers need before it is fully defined, and turn Astrion capabilities into differentiated solutions that matter to the warfighter.

MISSION AREA: LAYERED DEFENSE, AUTONOMOUS WARFARE & INTEGRATED FIRES

The Layered Defense, Autonomous Warfare & Integrated Fires mission area is focused on synchronized detection, identification, tracking, and defeat capabilities - kinetic, non-kinetic, and directed-energy - arrayed across multiple altitudes, ranges, and domains to deny, degrade, and destroy threats to defended assets while delivering integrated counter-fires. It also includes the integrated employment of uncrewed and autonomous systems across air, land, surface, subsurface, and space domains to conduct, enable, and sustain combat operations through human-machine and machine-machine teaming.

This is not a role for someone who simply tracks opportunities. It requires a senior capture leader who can build customer trust, influence early shaping, understand the competitive field, develop credible solution strategies with technical SMEs, and lead disciplined capture campaigns from qualification through award.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

  • Experience:
    • Minimum of 20+ years of capture management, business development, program management, defense acquisition, military operations, civil space, homeland security, cyber, or related mission growth experience.
    • Proven record personally leading and winning complex federal captures in defense, national security, civil space, homeland security, or mission-critical technical services markets.
    • Demonstrated experience in layered defense, autonomous warfare, integrated fires, or adjacent mission areas, including several of the following: counter-UAS, uncrewed systems, autonomous systems, long-range fires, target pairing, sensor fusion, human-machine teaming, electronic warfare, directed energy, C2/BMC2, operational test, training, or mission integration.
    • Strong familiarity with Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, MDA, Joint C-UAS, RCCTO, IFMC, service labs, Combatant Commands, or related customers, including acquisition rhythms, mission priorities, customer pain points, and the industry ecosystem.
    • Experience shaping and capturing SETA, SE&I, test and evaluation, software, hardware cyber, mission operations, training, sustainment, modernization, or integrated solution opportunities.
    • Working knowledge of FAR/DFARS, IDIQs, task orders, GWACs, OTAs, CSOs, rapid prototyping pathways, recompetes, price-to-win, and probability-of-win methods.
    • Demonstrated ability to apply market intelligence, competitive analysis, GovWin, FPDS, SAM.gov, CRM systems, AI, and data analytics to prioritize opportunities and improve capture outcomes.
  • Education:
    • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, National Security, Robotics, Aerospace, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Public Policy, or a related field required; Master's degree preferred.
  • Skills & Competencies:
    • Executive presence with the ability to engage senior government customers, industry partners, and internal executives with credibility and confidence.
    • Strong ability to translate complex mission needs into differentiated, customer-centered capture strategies and solution concepts.
    • Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence across matrixed teams.
    • Strategic thinker with disciplined business judgment, including the ability to assess where Astrion should prime, sub, team, invest, or no-bid.
    • Ability to lead cross-functional capture teams across business development, operations, technical SMEs, contracts, pricing, finance, recruiting, and executive stakeholders.
  • Clearance:
    • U.S. citizenship required.
    • Secret eligible.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

  • Prior experience supporting or capturing work involving counter-UAS, autonomous systems, long-range fires, integrated fires, directed energy, electronic warfare, or multi-domain operations.
  • Experience with human-machine teaming, machine-to-machine coordination, target pairing, sensor-to-shooter orchestration, battle management command and control, or autonomy-enabled mission software.
  • Experience developing solution-led captures involving AI-enabled software, mission engineering, cyber assurance, modeling and simulation, wargaming, digital engineering, test automation, or mission integration.
  • Prior military, government civilian, or industry experience in fires, air defense, force protection, autonomy, uncrewed systems, electronic warfare, operational test, or command-and-control roles.
  • Experience using OTAs, CSOs, rapid prototyping pathways, experimentation venues, or other nontraditional acquisition mechanisms to shape technology-forward opportunities.
  • Existing relationships with defense primes, autonomy companies, UxS providers, sensor and effector OEMs, nontraditional technology firms, or specialized mission partners.
  • CI Poly preferred.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead strategic capture efforts across the Layered Defense, Autonomous Warfare & Integrated Fires mission area, including opportunities with service customers, Combatant Commands, service labs, Joint C-UAS stakeholders, RCCTO, IFMC, MDA, and related organizations.
  • Identify, qualify, and shape new business opportunities aligned to Astrion customer access, past performance, differentiated capabilities, and growth priorities.
  • Build customer engagement plans that deepen Astrion understanding of mission needs, acquisition timelines, funding priorities, decision makers, and pain points.
  • Translate customer needs into clear win themes, solution discriminators, teaming strategies, pricing considerations, and pursuit priorities.
  • Use market intelligence, acquisition data, customer insights, and competitive analysis to prioritize opportunities and inform bid, no-bid, prime, sub, and teaming decisions.
  • Develop and execute capture strategies for mission areas such as counter-UAS, autonomous warfare, integrated fires, long-range fires, electronic warfare, directed energy, sensor fusion, C2/BMC2, operational test, training, and sustainment.
  • Shape differentiated solutions by collaborating with technical SMEs in mission engineering, autonomy, AI-enabled software, uncrewed systems, sensors, effectors, cyber, test and evaluation, modeling and simulation, training, and mission support.
  • Build and maintain capture plans that include customer engagement, competitive assessment, solution development, pricing strategy, teaming, risk management, and gate-review readiness.
  • Develop teaming and partner strategies with primes, OEMs, nontraditional technology firms, and specialized mission partners to strengthen Astrion position to win.
  • Prepare leadership briefings, gate reviews, investment recommendations, and pursuit health assessments that are realistic, data-driven, and tied to customer mission outcomes.
  • Track capture performance through meaningful KPIs, including qualification quality, customer engagement progress, solution maturity, teaming status, Pwin movement, and gate readiness.
  • Represent Astrion in customer meetings, industry engagements, technical exchanges, and partner discussions with a clear point of view on layered defense, autonomous warfare, and integrated fires.