Position Title: Senior Advisor, Defense Industrial Base Strategy & Industry Engagement

Location: Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia

Category: Funded

Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time

Travel Required: May require occasional domestic travel

Shift: Day

Remote Type: In-Office

Clearance required: Current Top Secret. Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility

Salary: $180,000 - $220,000

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!

Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Advisor, Defense Industrial Base Strategy & Industry Engagement who will support the U.S. Navy industrial capacity; strategic communications and executive engagement. Also provide senior-level strategic planning, analytical, communications, and engagement-support services to the Director for Strategic Communications and External Engagement, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for the Defense Industrial Base (DASN (DIB)). The analyst supports Department of the Navy (DON) efforts to communicate approved industrial-base priorities and initiatives to defense companies, capital providers, trade associations, state and local officials, and other relevant stakeholders.

The Senior Advisor will support U.S. Navy leaders advance defense industrial-base priorities through strategic analysis, executive communications, and engagement with defense companies, investors, trade associations, and government stakeholders. Supporting the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for the Defense Industrial Base, this role connects industrial strategy, private-capital perspectives, and senior-leader engagement to initiatives that strengthen shipbuilding, manufacturing capacity, and supply-chain resilience.

Responsibilities:

Research, analyze, and synthesize defense-industrial-base trends, corporate and investor information, market conditions, policy developments, industrial risks, and stakeholder interests relevant to DASN (DIB) priorities.
Develop executive-level engagement products, including read-ahead packages, stakeholder profiles, engagement plans, agendas, talking points, speech drafts, correspondence drafts, decision memoranda, meeting materials, and follow-up packages.
Translate complex industrial-base, acquisition, manufacturing, supply-chain, infrastructure, private-capital, workforce, and economic-security issues into concise, accurate, audience-appropriate communications and recommendations.
Support planning and execution of approved senior-leader engagements with defense companies, trade associations, capital providers, investors, state and local officials, and other stakeholders. Engagement-support activities may include stakeholder mapping, background research, market analysis, agenda development, event coordination, site-visit planning, and preparation of engagement materials.
Support communications and engagement activities related to strategic Department of the Navy initiatives, including shipbuilding and maritime industrial-base capacity, advanced manufacturing, supply-chain resilience, private-capital engagement, infrastructure and energy acquisition, workforce development, critical minerals, and industrial risk management.
Prepare meeting summaries, trip reports, after-action reports, status updates, and recommended follow-through actions based on Government direction and approved engagement outcomes.
Maintain action-item, decision, correspondence, and engagement trackers; identify dependencies, coordination requirements, overdue actions, and potential risks for Government review.
Support development of strategic communications plans, stakeholder-engagement strategies, and executive-level products aligned with approved DASN (DIB), ASN (RD&A), DON, and Department of War priorities.