Director, Business Development, Integrated Air & Missile Defense

Strategic Defense builds the command and control and fire control software for integrated air and missile defense. We work the hard end of the problem: ballistic missiles, hypersonic glide vehicles, cruise missiles, and saturation raids that arrive faster than any human-paced decision cycle can absorb.

The US air and missile defense enterprise was assembled over four decades, one program at a time. Army air defense runs on one battle manager, short range air defense on another, the ballistic missile defense system on a third, and the fleet on a fourth. Each of them was engineered well for the threat it was scoped against. None of them was designed to be extended by anyone other than the prime that built it, which is why adding a sensor or an effector to an existing architecture is still a multi-year integration program rather than a software release.

That is the opening we are working. A software-defined fire control layer, built on Lattice, with interfaces open enough that a new sensor, a new interceptor, or a new effects chain can be brought in at the pace software moves rather than the pace a hardware program moves. The technical case is strong and the early programs are real. What we need now is someone who can turn that into share inside programs of record.

You will own Anduril's business development across US integrated air and missile defense: Army, Navy, Air Force, the Missile Defense Agency, and the Joint programs that cut across them. You will carry the pipeline, the forecast, and a bookings commitment.

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