**Description** The Engineering Science Division (ESD) Of Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is seeking a Principal Program Manager 2 to manage the conduction of RDT&E projects focused on providing solutions to identified airbase technology capability gaps. This position is located at Tyndall Air Force Base and is contingent upon award of the contract. As a Principal Program Manager 2, you will be responsible for planning, designing, executing, analyzing, and reporting RDT&E and technical activities focused on innovating protective designs and concepts using state-of-the-art materials. You will also recommend potential solutions crucial to ensuring the survivability of personnel, infrastructure, and high-value assets against a variety of threats. **Required Experience and Skills:** + Previous experience preparing and reviewing research proposals, research plans, and test plans. + Experience writing and reviewing complex scientific and/or engineering technical papers. + Extensive experience in blast and infrastructure protection research. + Previous experience working with/on DoD installations. + Experience leading a professional team. + Background in unmanned systems, autonomous systems, sensor/payload integration, and Air Force Civil Engineering. **Required Qualifications:** + Graduate of an accredited university with a PhD or equivalent in the field of science or engineering relevant to CE M&P or airbase technologies and at least 15 years of RDT&E experience since graduation. + Secret DoD Security Clearance. For this position, travel is required ~20% of the time. **Company Information:** Applied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 2,000 professionals. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics. At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership spawns greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). **Qualifications** **Behaviors** **Preferred** + **Functional Expert:** Considered a thought leader on a subject + **Leader:** Inspires teammates to follow them + **Detail Oriented:** Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)