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Strategic Planning and Technical Development Manager

DLA Careers
Fort Belvoir, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/18/2026
Summary

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Duties

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  • Serves as the Chief, Strategic Planning Division in the Directorate of Strategic Planning and Market Research, DLA Strategic Materials
  • Supporting DLA Strategic Materials' organizational capability to meet changing missions, evolving environments, and achieving the overarching goal of supplying strategic and...
  • ...critical materials to meet military, industrial, and essential civilian needs in times of national crisis.
  • Overseeing the development of the congressionally mandated reports required by the Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C 98 et seq.).
  • Overseeing the development of material acquisition requirements packages and technical evaluations of sourcing or research and development proposals.
  • Providing technical and analytical guidance to policy makers on strategic and critical materials to include econometric modeling, supply chains, and National Defense planning scenarios

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • Must be a U.S. citizen
  • Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
  • Security Requirements: Critical Sensitive with Top Secret Access
  • Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
  • Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
  • Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
  • Supervisory Probation: Required
  • Completion of Supervisory Certification Program: Required
  • Bargaining Unit Status: No
  • Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities. See https://www.tsa.gov/real-id for more information.
  • Financial Disclosure Requirement: Required

Qualifications

To qualify for a Strategic Planning and Technical Development Manager, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

  • Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-14 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes:
  • Identifying problems and developing solutions/risk mitigation strategies related to issues affecting strategic and critical material supply chains.
  • Budgeting for and managing investments in research of materials and alloys and development of solutions including stockpiling, substitution, and/or conservation.
  • Developing comprehensive documents required to advance acquisition of products and services including; Statements of Work (SOW) Performance Work Statements (PWS) Statements Of Objectives (SOO), Market Research Reports (MRR) and Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCE).
  • Communicating complex technical concepts and issues in plain language, both verbally and in writing, with technical and non-technical professionals at all levels.
  • Strong time management skills with ability to multi-task (i.e. manage several projects at one time), establish and maintain priorities in a dynamic environment, while maintaining attention to detail.
  • Systematically applying statistical, precise, and logical techniques to describe and illustrate; condense and recap; and evaluate data to make decisions and support conclusions.

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.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Additional information

For Important General Applicant Information and Definitions go to: http://www.dla.mil/portals/104/documents/careers/GenAppInfoDef.pdf

Reemployed Annuitants: This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025_vol300.PDF

Information for Veterans is available at: https://www.dla.mil/Careers/Programs/. As of 23 December 2016, Military retirees seeking to enter federal service in the Department of Defense now require a waiver if they would be appointed within 180 days following their official date of retirement.

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing.

Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six-month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing.

The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, norfentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids.

ADVISORY: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is a Schedule I drug and is illegal.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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