ATTACHMENT 0003 AI TALENT 2.0 BOA PWS - APPENDIX A LCAT TABLE_.xlsx

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- Helps to create an open and trust-based environment, which enables a focus on delivery and facilitates continuous improvement

- Applies best tools and techniques to team roles, behaviors, structure and culture, Agile ceremonies and practices, knowledge transfer and sharing, program management, cross-team coordination, and overall governance of digital service delivery AI/ML Engineer Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems;

Drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations as part of the DoD team;

Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation, and model implementation;

Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and infrastructure engineers to develop and deploy and model pipelines, applying ML and data science techniques in design distributed and large-scale processing systems;

Coordinate science and technology research and development (R&D) outreach, and engagement efforts to help advance sensitive ML capability development efforts via technical leadership of external ML contracts; and

Writing production-level, re-usable, easy-to-interpret code in R, Python (required), Java, C++, or other languages, while engaging in collaborative code reviews and providing technical feedback to improve existing ML model performance.

- Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.

- Prepares detailed specifications for programs. Assists in the design, development, testing, implementation, and documentation of new software and enhancements of existing applications.

- Works with project managers, developers, and end users to ensure application designs meet business requirements.

- Formulates/defines specifications for complex operating software programming applications or modifies/maintains complex existing applications using engineering releases and utilities from the manufacturer.

- Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents those programs.

- Provides overall operating system, such as sophisticated file maintenance routines, large telecommunications networks, computer accounting, and advanced mathematical/scientific software packages.

- Assists all phases of software systems programming applications.

- Assist in applying common best practices for the industry to the customer using a knowledge base to create conceptual business models and to identify relevant issues and considerations in selecting application software packages. Assess the operational and functional baseline of an organization and its organizational components, and help to define the direction and strategy for an engagement while ensuring the organizational needs are being addressed. Typical areas addressed include Human

- Resources, Finance, Supply, and operations. Identify information technology inadequacies and/or deficiencies that affect the functional area’s ability to support/meet organizational goals. Generate functional area strategies for enhanced IT operations in a cross-functional area mode throughout the organization. Participate in account strategy sessions, strategic assessments and design reviews to validate enterprise approach and associated work products, such as ERP implementations coordinating the resolution of highly complex problems and tasks. Commensurate experience and education.

Cognitive Engineer & Human Factors Engineer - Analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, and programming techniques and controls

- Incorporates human factors, human systems, and cognitive engineering elements into current and future product delivery programs

- Applies the principles, methods and techniques of user-based design with an in-depth knowledge of complex computer-based systems to support capabilities that include development of artificial intelligence solutions

- Defines problems, and develops and coordinates study/project plans

- Determines sources of data and /or sample sizes: compiles, organizes, and analyzes data: and recommends alterative courses of action to senior leaders

- Follows a cognitive engineering process as required by international and national regulatory bodies and design and conduct appropriate evaluations to validate new AI technology and changes to currently fielded software and systems

- Applies expertise in knowledge elicitation, systems engineering, user interface design, human subjects testing, training programs, and procedures in support of developing new interface systems and methodologies

- Designs and prototypes specific AI or ML solutions. Understands user needs, behaviors, and motivations. Through empathizing with the user, the analyst can inform design decisions and advocate for the user

- Utilizes mathematical and statistical techniques, elements of cognitive engineering, systems engineering principles, and innovative approaches to develop new solutions to previously highlighted and or new problems or problems, which may be totally lacking in precedent

- Demonstrates creativity and foresight by identifying, preparing, and presenting detailed technical reports and briefings on new concepts and technical directions impacting programs/projects, and defining future technology requirements

- Collaborates with equipment designers and/or software engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of artificial intelligence applications to support the breadth of warfighting and support functions of the military

- Collaborates with interdisciplinary product teams to deploy machine learning algorithms to prototype testing and production

- Understands user centered design and human factors principles and develop, retrieve and communicate suitable data to support design teams in detailed product development and requirements definitions

- Drafts engineering plans, conducts task analyses, writes evaluation protocols for usability research activities, heuristic, formative and summative evaluations

- Evaluates alternative courses of action and makes recommendations based on sound scientific theory and research Communications Specialist - Support the development of written material in support of a variety of program and performance management initiatives. Provide editorial and written support for senior leadership

- Assist with the development of correspondence, to include issuances, e.g., directives, manuals, guides, memorandums, etc., information memorandums, action memorandums, memorandums for the record, and executive correspondence

- Edit incoming and outgoing information to ensure strict conformance to U.S. Government, DoD, and command formatting, grammatical construction, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling rules

- Support communications initiatives targeted at employees and other internal stakeholders

- Contribute to communications strategies, write and update web content, prepare executive talking points and other executives communications; and

- Plan and execute periodic events and information sessions for government workforce, including identifying the topics, handling all event logistics, preparing presentation materials, and marketing the event Computer Hardware Engineer - Research, design, develop, or test computer or computer-related equipment for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use

- Supervise the manufacturing and installation of computer or computer-related equipment and components Computer Network Architect - Plans, conducts and directs the analysis of business problems with automated systems solutions. Analyzes, designs, acquires and implements projects for LAN and/or WAN systems

- Plans, designs, acquires and implements telecommunications voice/wire systems

- Contribute to the development, testing, evaluation or design of system or infrastructure architecture used throughout the IT solution set Computer Network Specialist - Responsible for the day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for operating systems, workstations and servers. Under general supervision, performs software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages

- Schedules installations and upgrades and maintains them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures

- Monitors and tunes the system to achieve optimum performance levels

- Ensures workstation/server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions

- Ensures data/media recoverability by implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations. Implements and promotes standard operating procedures

- Conducts hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines Data Engineer - Support the configuration and ingestion of designated structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data repositories into capabilities that satisfy mission partner requirements and support a data analytics and DevOps pipeline to drive rapid delivery of functionality to the client

- Maintain all operational aspects of data transfers while accounting for the security posture of the underlying infrastructure and the systems and applications that are supported and monitoring the health of the environment through a variety of health tracking capabilities

- Automate configuration management, leverage tools, and stay current on data extract, transfer, and load (ETL) technologies and services

- Work under general guidance, demonstrate an initiative to develop approaches to solutions independently, review architecture, and identify areas for automation, optimization, right-sizing, and cost reduction to support the overall health of the environment

- Apply comprehension of data engineering-specific technologies and services, leverage expertise in databases and a variety of approaches to structuring and retrieving of data, comprehend Cloud architectural constructs, and support the establishment and maintenance of Cloud environments programmatically using vendor consoles

- Engage with multiple functional groups to comprehend client challenges, prototype new ideas and new technologies, help to create solutions to drive the next wave of innovation, and design, implement, schedule, test, and deploy full features and components of solutions

- Identify and implement scalable and efficient coding solutions Data Scientist - Designs, configures, develops, tests, and supports informatics and data science solutions for a wide array of technical use cases;

- Applies analytical methodologies to diagnose data-related challenges, implement solutions, and evaluate performance;

- Documents and presents requirements, design alternatives, and findings to team members and clients;

- Ability to develop strategic, baselined, data modeling processes; ability to accurately determine cause-and-effect relationships; and

- Experience with integrated development environments, data integration, data visualization, data mining, and analysis tools.

Enterprise Architect - Provides high-level architectural expertise to managers and technical staff.

- Develops architectural products and deliverables for the enterprise and operational business lines.

- Develops strategy of system and the design infrastructure necessary to support that strategy.

- Advises on selection of technological purchases with regards to processing, data storage, data access, and applications development. Sets standards for the client/server relational database structure for the organization (SQL, ORACLE, SYBASE, etc.).

- Advises of feasibility of potential future projects to management.

- Develops front end and backend of software prototypes, components, and tooling that can be leveraged to speed prototyping process;

- Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used by multiple teams;

- Aids in formulating a strategy on how to achieve rapid prototyping of AI capabilities;

- Works with data scientists, UX designers, cognitive scientists, developers, and testers to compose cohesive and sound software designs that form the basis of scalable AI solutions;

- Documents requirements and specifications and reviews documentation provided by other teams and vendors;

- Optimizes software designs and architectures to deliver desired performance targets and devises tooling and methodologies to profile execution and capture performance metrics;

- Stays informed on latest AI system and software architectures and trends from design patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns;

- Works closely with clients and requirements owners to build out product lines;

- Develops plans, road maps, software design strategies;

- Analyze and decomposes activities and requirements to software designs that are allocated across systems components/sub-components; and

- Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance standards.

Motion Graphics Designer - Responsible for design and production of regional corporate marketing materials; brand strategy; graphics support for all assigned missions;

- Collaborate with mission teams and the communications team to design custom graphics, videos, and three-dimensional animation for digital platforms;

- Tell the story; Make deliberate design decisions and translate any given user experience into a smooth and intuitive interaction;

- Create, improve, and use wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate your interaction ideas using any of these methods;

- Present and be able to defend design decisions, which are based on design thinking and fundamental principles of design, including color schemes, visual weight, etc.;

- Work closely with the UX lead and developers to ensure that designs meet the UX specifications and are implementable by the development team;

- Collect and understand requirements; design, explain, and negotiate feedback; and

- Conduct ongoing research to identify new design trends and UX strategies.

Operational Test Engineer - Provide system performance validation and quality assurance on multiple systems;

- Participate in system level test planning and test readiness reviews;

- Write and review system engineering documentation to ensure test plans and methodologies meet system needs and are accurate comprehensive, consistent, and complete; and

- Support the development of system integration plans, procedures and scenarios used in the conduct of software/hardware system integration testing.

Operations Research and Systems Analyst (ORSA) - Support Integrated Capabilities Development Teams necessary for successful completion and delivery of JCIDS products and documents;

- Support the program by providing research, modeling, technical analysis, and technical writing support;

- Support the modification and integration of organizational, force structure requirements, tactical wheeled vehicle and planning data requirements, and integrating current and future force structures;

- Support analyses pertaining to risk management associated with warfighting capability development;

- Taking structured and unstructured data and distilling the information into a cohesive analytical product for the senior military audience;

- Assist in developing, assessing, analyzing, documenting, modifying, integrating, and staffing materiel requirements;

- Assist in developing, assessing, analyzing, documenting, modifying, integrating, and staffing DOTMLPF related operational energy requirements;

- Review, analyze and provide recommendations pertaining to the modeling and simulation analytical tools and efforts; and

- Identify study issues, draft study guidance and directives, monitor the conduct of ongoing studies, assess study products and provide recommendations on results of studies in support of warfighter requirements and warfighting capability development.

Product Test Engineer - Conducts research, technical analysis, and solution alternatives for systems and platforms with a focus on the system’s life-cycle;

- Develop approaches that resolve technical or supportability deficiencies affecting the platform functionality;

- Develop, determine deficiencies indicators, define characteristics of platform deficiencies, and determine impact on the affected product;

- Create and implement procedures for platform testing, reviews, and evaluation of test results. Recommend production or design changes to ensure quality and performance standards; and

- Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics. Monitors for continual test process improvement through failure analysis, throughput analysis, yield analysis, and report to management periodically.

Program Manager - Acts as the counterpart to the government Technical Manager and assists the Contract Officer Representative for execution of the Task Order

- Provides technical oversight and support involving multiple tasks and projects

- Directing and/or supervising personnel, providing management support in the form of organization, directing and coordinating, planning and execution of all support activities

- Effectively communicate with higher echelon personnel in order to interface with all levels of management

- Identifies and establishes management structure and section leads to assign duties and a review work of subordinates and establishes

- Meets and confers with government officials regarding the status of specific support activities and progress

- May provide expertise in the field of resolution of problems, issues or conflicts as required

Project Manager - Responsible for large projects/programs or significant segment of a large complex project/program

- Translate customer requirements into formal agreements and plans to culminate in customer acceptance of results or have acceptance in the targeted market, while meeting business objectives

- Works with client to identify business requirements and develops the proposal

- Leads a team in the intiating, planning, controlling, executing, and closing tasks of a project/prgram or segment of a project/program to produce the solution deliverable

- Executes a wide range of process actvities beginning with the request for proposal through development, test and final delivery

- Formulates partnerships between customer, suppliers and staff

- Anticipates potential project/program related problems. Utilizes refined techniques for identifying, elimiating or mitigating solution.

System Engineer - Inspects legacy software applications to determine viability of AI applications;

- Responsible for designing, consolidating and integrating computer networks and advanced networking solutions, including local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), service provider networks, Enterprise Networks, Data centers for the build out of a platform and infrastructure that effectively support processing of AI/ML workloads and delivering scalable AI capabilities;

- Ensures that the consortium members are proposing and working towards a common interoperable technical vision;

- Identifies high level architectures and design patterns best suited to a complex multi-vendor, multi-organization environment;

- Identifies technical risks and mitigation strategies;

- Is capable of leading the design of extensive multi-tier architectures with various levels of enabling platforms and technologies and the design of API and data standards;

- Perform network and security assessment, including gap analysis using information gathering tools;

- Create relevant documentation; such as diagrams, detailed assessments and design document;

- Inspects legacy software applications to determine how new AI components or features can be developed and integrated;

- Design and implementation of high-availability and multi-layer secure network infrastructures;

- Develop new concepts for AI service delivery and automation;

- Investigate, design, and deploy new network technologies;

- Ensure compliance of network infrastructure to global standards;

- Assist in the evaluation of new products and services; make recommendations for improvements and assist in the development and documentation of network architecture;

- Perform capacity and resource planning;

- Works with CFT team members, working groups and committees to provide senior level technical direction, leadership and guidance in the accomplishment of challenging tasks including the operational use of AI (both ML and non-ML);

- Initiates and develops methods to assess the end-to-end systems performance using operational measurements or other available test beds in order that end-to-end performance objectives are met;

- Serves as a senior technical advisor in formulating the technical approaches, selection of the tools, diagnostics methods for solving the customer problems utilizing artificial intelligence in a timely manner;

- Visits field installations, research and development or commercial organizations to obtain or exchange complex technical information;

- Serves as a representative for agency-wide Integrated Product Teams (IPTs); and

- Ensures all the functional and performance analysis models developed reflect the operational performance requirements.

Systems Analyst - Applies advanced engineering and analytical methods, theories, and research techniques in the investigation and resolution of systems design issues related to mission-oriented business programs or initiatives

- Facilitates decision support in customer collaboration efforts, working groups, or teams

- Applies engineering experience to perform functions such as system integration, configuration management, quality assurance testing, and acquisition and resource management

- Assesses requirements and designs, develops, implements, tests, or evaluates system components related to engineering or functional requirements of operational systems, support systems, or management information systems

- Installs new software, administers security procedures, ensures system back-ups, and monitor (and make recommendations to improve) systems performance

- Manages/operates simulation systems hardware/software

- Organizes and documents findings of studies and prepares recommendations for implementation

- Oversees and manages projects and programs

- Recommends technical performance improvements and develops implementation concepts

- Conducts studies, prepares tailored scenario and data products, as well as comprehensive white papers.

Systems Architect - Establish system information requirements using analysis of the information engineer(s) in the development of enterprise-wide or largescale information systems

- Design architecture to include the software, hardware, and communications to support the total requirements as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces

- Ensure these systems are compatible and in compliance with the standards for open systems architectures, the OSI and ISO reference models, and profiles of standards - such as IEEE OSE reference model - as they apply to the implementation and specification of information management solution of the application platform, across the API, and the external environment/software application

- Ensure that the common operating environment is compliant with the Agency enterprise architecture and applicable reference models

- Evaluate analytically and systematically problems of workflows, organization, and planning and develop appropriate corrective action Technical Writer - Researches highly technical subject matter, organizes information from multiple sources and expresses technical information in written form that is comprehensible to a wide audience of readers;

- Create various weekly, biweekly, and monthly reports;

- Draft, expand, refine and edit architecture documents, technical concepts or solutions into an easy to read, comprehensive, compliant and compelling documents;

- Develop outlines and drafts for review and approval by technical specialists and management ensuring that final documents meet applicable contract requirements and government regulations;

- Create compelling White Papers and other documents.

- Interact with the customer and technical team members for content development; and

- Become familiar and comply with government style guides.

UI/UX Designer - Applies the principles, methods and techniques of user-based design with an in-depth knowledge of complex computer-based systems to support capabilities that include development of artificial intelligence solutions;

- Gathers and formalizes requirements for the Mission Initiatives (MI) from participating services and agencies that will transform capability needs into requirements that are detailed, actionable, testable, and support the definition of discrete work tasks;

- Works with end-users to build and analyze user stories to identify common users’, system, software and interface requirements for capability design and development;

- Works closely with Data Engineers and other performers to create and manage a Requirements Traceability Matrix and an Intended Use Statement;

- Identifies end user processes, software and other mission issues that could be improved using AI;

- Captures and formulates final articulation of user needs that will define the broader user experience by gathering and incorporating end-user feedback from user interviews, usability tests, surveys, data analysis, and similar methods;

- Translates/transforms user research information into actionable user interface requirements and workflows;

- Designs and prototypes specific AI or ML solutions. Understands user needs, behaviors, and motivations. Through empathizing with the user, the analyst can inform design decisions and advocate for the user;

- Works closely with Mission and Capability Delivery teams to help determine product goals;

- Supports technical activities of the end users identifying mission goals, desired metrics, data standards and user workflows;

- Works with National Mission Initiative (NMI) teams to define and prioritize systems requests, define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support end user goals;

- Coordinates research efforts involving voice of the customer, qualitative and usability-oriented customer feedback, and industry trends;

- Produces high quality solutions through hybrid wireframe and visual designs, flow diagrams, storyboards, site maps and prototypes;

- Collaborates with team members on user research, customer testing, and iterative feedback loops;

- Rapidly iterates on design prototypes and working applications that contribute to the design, development, and testing of AI/ML tools and delivery methods;

- Develops mock-up solutions that can be implemented quickly;

- Tests and validates usability by monitoring and reporting metrics, determining potential, leveraging research and analytics to drive product updates and improved user experience;

- Coordinates technical requirements for the capability design, with an emphasis on interface definition with government and commercial stakeholders and organizations to evolve requirements and to establish MOU/MOAs for interfaces with existing external systems;

- Performs work involving new concepts and ideas for achieving particular missions and goals, technological trends, significant advancements in operational and mission requirements;

- Formulates overall design concepts and criteria, explores and evaluates advanced proposals, reviews and assesses the overall progress in the development effort;

- Coordinates efforts of other representatives who are recognized as technical specialists, as well as, representatives from other government agencies and industry pursuing research and development projects involved with the assignment

- Converts overall objectives into development programs and policies for others to use.