Senior PNT Policy Analyst
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SAIC seeks a Senior Policy Analyst to support the DoW CIO (C3I) and the DoW Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Enterprise portfolio. The analyst will provide analysis and assessments of emerging GPS, PNT, and NAVWAR issues for senior decision makers. The role is performed five days per week at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, with working hours of 0800–1630.
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Description
SAIC is seeking a Senior Policy Analyst to provide support to the DoW CIO (C3I). The successful candidate will support the DoW Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Enterprise portfolio, providing high-quality analysis and assessments of emerging GPS, PNT, and NAVWAR issues for senior DoW CIO decision makers. Work will be performed at the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
Roles & Responsibilities
The Senior PNT Policy analyst will:
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Monitor, Track, complete taskings on PNT Programmatic and Acquisition issues
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Monitor, Track, complete taskings on PNT Funding issues, PNT POM, and Budget builds
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Monitor, Track, complete taskings on defense planning guidance and capability program guidance
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Monitor and determine NDAA and Armed Services Committees’ taskings related to PNT
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Lead the development and submission of Mitigating Critical Vulnerabilities
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Support all PNT meeting preparations and execution as required
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Travel to PNT related meetings and conferences as required
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Support Deputy Director and Director of PNT as required
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Address all other tasks as assigned
Qualifications
This position is 5-days per week in the Pentagon with working hours as 0800-1630.
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Bachelors and ten (10) years or more of related experience; Masters and eight (8) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and five (5) years or more experience.
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Active TS/SCI Clearance
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Knowledge of the PNT Enterprise and Navigation Warfare.
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Strong Pentagon or equivalent staff experience across OSW, Joint Staff and the Services (3+ years).
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Experience with GPS Acquisitions, Presidential Budget Reviews, RDT&E or DOT&E as they relate to GPS. Experience as a GPS Program Element Monitor (PEM) is ideal. (Experience with other large military satellite systems like MILSATCOM, MILSTAR, and SIBRS is acceptable).
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Knowledge of Space Operations, with an understanding of how space systems function e.g. 3 segments, RF C2 links, challenges with ops, sustainment, and modernization.
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Knowledge of Space systems; Satellites; Satellite Communication, and test range.
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Effective manager of multi-tiered workload. - Impeccable time management and multi-tasking skills.
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 450 open Policy Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$120–160K/yr
- Washington, D.C. median$97–145K/yr54 salary ranges
- US median$91–138K/yr288 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $140K, is 15% above the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($122K) — in the middle half of Policy Analyst salary ranges in Washington, D.C..
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 72 open Policy Analyst jobs in Washington, D.C. and 450 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Policy Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (362 postings).
- Education
- 237 of the 450 open Policy Analyst jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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