This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Space Commerce (OSC) Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA) with one vacancy in Washington, D.C.Qualifications:
The open period for this announcement may be up to 12 months (or until the position is filled). New and independent certificates will be issued for each cutoff.
The initial cut-off will be 2/13/2026 , subsequent cut-off dates will be: 3/30/2026; 4/30/2026; 5/29/2026; 6/30/2026; 7/31/2026; 8/31/2026; 9/30/2026; 10/30/2026; 11/30/2026; 12/31/2026 and 1/29/2027.
Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy.
EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies; knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
To qualify at the ZA-4 or GS-13 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-3 or GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following:
- Ensuring requirement compliance for command and control systems and mission payloads by evaluating technical capabilities against end-use requirements, assessing system architectures, monitoring data security during remote communications and dissemination, and assessing mission data products.
- Ensuring the operation of remote systems, platforms, or networks and collection and dissemination of remotely-sensed data, including but not limited to remote sensing (ISR) products, comply with mission requirements, including data handling, dissemination, and cybersecurity; and
- Authoring investigations, assessments, or reports regarding remote system analysis, compliance evaluation, and component (e.g., network, ground, payload, data processing) inspections.
Education:Substitution of education for specialized experience is not applicable to this vacancy.
Employment Type: OTHER