Associate Director, Program Management - Connected Battlespace Emerging Capabilities (CBEC) - Trusted AI & Autonomy CTA Lead (Onsite)

Location: US-IA-CEDAR RAPIDS-166 ~ 855 35Th St NE ~ BLDG 166

 Position Role Type: Onsite

 U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​

 Security Clearance Type: Secret - Current

 Security Clearance Status: Active and existing security clearance required after day 1 The Emerging Capabilities portfolio in the Connected Battlespace Emerging Capabilities (CBEC) business has an immediate need for an Associate Director, Program Management (PM) to support our growing Trusted Artificial Intelligence & Autonomy (TAI&A) portfolio. This individually-contributing PM will lead research & development programs, both internally and externally funded developing and incubating emerging TAI&A technologies for Department of Defense (DoD) customers, Consortiums, and the strategic business units (SBU) within Collins Aerospace.   This PM with lead the strategic development and execution for the TAI&A critical technology area (CTA), ensuring alignment with enterprise technology priorities, long‑range business objectives, and future program needs. In addition, this PM will also lead and organize pursuit and proposal efforts to capture new programs within the science and technology (S&T) community, to include the DoD and other agencies. The PM will interface with a cross-functional team of other PMs, business development, strategy, and engineering personnel to create and maintain technology development roadmaps as well as coordinate the transition of new technologies and capabilities to other SBUs once mature. This role will fuel future the future at Collins Aerospace and drive business growth through the development and maturation of state-of-the-art cutting edge technologies.   This is an onsite in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Define, prioritize, and steward an IRAD portfolio that matures differentiated AI, machine learning (ML), and autonomous system capabilities, with clear transition paths into internal programs and external customer applications Lead and be accountable for Pursuit, Order, Capture efforts for AI and autonomy‑related pursuits, including strategic shaping, intellectual property planning, solution definition, and alignment to customer requirements both internal and external Coordinate cross‑functional stakeholders across AI, data engineering, modeling and simulation, autonomy behaviors, certification, and mission application teams to ensure an integrated, spiral‑development‑driven roadmap Provide programmatic guidance for the development and maturation of AI/ML models that outperform rule‑based state‑of‑the‑art approaches through advanced learning techniques (e.g., supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning, multimodal fusion) Collaborate closely with systems engineers and autonomy architects to plan and integrate learning‑enabled components into broader autonomous system behaviors and decision‑making architectures Support development and adoption of scalable ML operations and digital engineering processes including; experimentation, model/version management, assurance workflows, and reproducibility all to accelerate advanced technology development Promote the evaluation and integration of emerging AI techniques such as foundation models, model‑based reinforcement learning (RL), self‑supervision, uncertainty‑aware decision making, and hybrid symbolic‑ML approaches when they deliver clear mission advantage Identify and cultivate ecosystem partnerships including; universities, research labs, and industry collaborators to accelerate capability maturation, enhance innovation, and reduce technical and programmatic risk Support the Mission Systems AI and data strategy by