Senior Data Scientist - Defense Industrial Base (DIB) & Manufacturing Analytics

About the role

• Location: Arlington, Virginia
• Category: Funded
• Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time
• Travel Required: N/A
• Shift: Day
• Remote Type: Hybrid
• Clearance required: Top Secret clearance required
• Salary: $170,000 - $200,000

Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee-owned company. We've served the Department of War (DoW) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us!

About the role

ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist - Defense Industrial Base (DIB) & Manufacturing Analytics will identify, evaluate, pilot, and govern targeted AI, machine-learning, operations-research, optimization, forecasting, and advanced-analytics applications.

Responsibilities

Manufacturing Data Science and Analytics

• Integrate and analyze production, supplier, schedule, quality, capacity, financial, and program data to identify constraints, trends, dependencies, and emerging risks affecting weapon-system output.
• Develop analytical models, dashboards, forecasts, and leading indicators for throughput, cycle time, lead time, backlog, yield, on-time delivery, supplier performance, and capacity.
• Apply statistical analysis, machine learning, AI, anomaly detection, forecasting, optimization, and other advanced methods where appropriate to support production-recovery and supplier-capacity decisions.
• Assess data quality, completeness, lineage, comparability, access, and analytical limitations; distinguish validated evidence from assumptions, incomplete reporting, and unsupported claims.

Decision Support and Advanced Analytics

• Develop repeatable analytical methods and decision-support products that help TASC prioritize constraints, interventions, investments, supplier actions, and production-recovery initiatives.
• Evaluate proposed interventions and investments using quantitative measures of expected capacity, throughput, schedule, cost, quality, resilience, and mission impact.
• Identify critical data gaps and recommend practical collection, normalization, governance, and validation approaches needed to improve analytical confidence and decision quality.
• Develop scenario, sensitivity, trend, and predictive analyses to illuminate tradeoffs, dependencies, likely bottlenecks, and potential consequences of alternative courses of action.
• Support data reviews, technical working sessions, and analytical engagements with program offices, production facilities, prime contractors, suppliers, and other authorized stakeholders.

Team Integration and Decision Support

• Serve as the senior data science, AI, and advanced analytics advisor to the TASC team for assigned PAE and weapon-system priorities.
• Integrate analytical findings with production, schedule, supplier, engineering, quality, investment, and program data to develop executable courses of action.
• Coordinate analytical requirements and findings across DASN DIB, PAEs, program offices, systems commands, engineering, cybersecurity, contracting, financial management, production facilities, and industry stakeholders.
• Prepare dashboards, analytical assessments, forecasts, issue papers, decision briefings, action plans, and recommendations for senior Government leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in data science, statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, operations research, analytics, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years' experience in data science, advanced analytics, operations research, AI/machine learning, manufacturing analytics, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience applying quantitative analysis to complex manufacturing, production, supply-chain, industrial-base, or defense problems.
• Experience with predictive models, forecasts, dashboards, performance indicators, statistical analyses, or optimization tools using complex operational data.
• Ability to evaluate data quality and analytical limitations and translate technical findings into practical recommendations tied to measurable production outcomes.
• Experience preparing analytical assessments, visualizations, executive briefings, and executive decision materials for Government or industry leadership.
• Active Top Secret Clearance required.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Company Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Company Paid Short-Term Disability
• Voluntary Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401K with employer match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Military Leave
• Education, Training & Professional Development
• Voluntary Accidental Injury/Critical Illness/Hospital Care
• Voluntary Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, and Identity Protection

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.

• If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you'll periodically work from a ACT1 Federal or client site facility.
• If this position is listed as onsite, you'll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.