1. Pentagon to the People Brief
USASMDC/ARSTRAT
Pentagon to the People Brief

2. Agenda Command Overview Who We Are What We Do HQ
Major Subordinate Element – Tech Center
Major Subordinate Element – Future Warfare Center
Job Career Density
Hiring Opportunities
SMART Intern Program
Department of Labor WRP Summer Interns
Current Hiring Perspective

3. Command Overview USASMDC/ARSTRAT Mission Mission Areas
USASMDC/ARSTRAT develops and provides current and future global space, missile defense, and high altitude forces and capabilities to the Army, the Joint Force, and our interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational Allies and partners to enable mission command, enhance deterrence and detection of strategic attacks, and protect U.S. vital interests in Land, Air, Maritime, Space and Cyber domains.
USASMDC/ARSTRAT
Mission Areas
Enduring Priorities
ASCC/Operational Support
Defend the Homeland
Support the Warfighter
Prepare for the Future
Develop Emerging Technologies
Sustain Strategic Advantage
Be Responsible Stewards of our Nation’s Resources
Senior Commander
JFCC IMD
Service Activities
Army Proponency
Other CG Roles & Responsibilities
Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense (JFCC IMD)
Senior Commander for U.S. Army Garrison - Kwajalein Atoll and Fort Greely, Alaska
Army Air and Missile Defense Enterprise Integrator
Personnel Developer, Functional Area 40 Space Operations Officers
1st Space
Brigade
100th Missile Defense
Brigade (GMD)
Future Warfare
Center
Technical
Center

4. Headquarters and Subordinate Brigades
Key Tasks
Provides more than 600 operational forces, operationally deployed or forward stationed, on point for the nation
Delivers theater missile warning to deployed forces
Provides military satellite communications around the globe
Provides Friendly Force Tracking capabilities of 500,000+ locations and receives approximately 1.5 million reports daily
Provides GEOINT support to the Joint Warfighter
Provides space tracking and space situational awareness capabilities to USSTRATCOM
Manages Functional Area (FA) 40 Space Operations Officer Life-Cycle
Provides Army Astronauts for NASA duties

5. UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO
Future Warfare Center
Develops space and missile defense concepts, requirements, and doctrine
Trains Army Space Cadre and Missile Defense operators ~200 formal courses with 8100 students during Fiscal Year 2016
Designs and documents space and missile defense organizations
Performs wargames, experiments, integration and evaluation, and prototyping
Advocates for Army space and missile defense
Executes rapid fielding of space equipment to the Warfighter
Provides modeling and simulation for Army space and missile defense
Takes equipment from concept to fielding
FM 3-14
Space Operations
FM 3-27
GBMD Operations
UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO

6. Technical Center Key Tasks
Operates Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site (RTS) as a major range and test facility and operates the RTS Operations Center in Huntsville (ROC-H)
Executes space and missile defense research and development
High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator (HEL TVD) to counter rockets, artillery, mortars, and other threats
Space-based capabilities in low earth orbit to directly enable next-generation Army communications and ISR tactical systems
High power microwave weapons for counter-IED and other applications
Advanced Hypersonic technologies
Test execution support for space, missile defense, and hypersonic technologies and ballistic missile targets
Capability gap mitigation

7. Job Density

8. SMART Intern Opportunities
Hands-on experience recently graduated engineers, scientists and current college students as interns
Sourced through DOD’s Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship program
Current participants from Tuskegee Univ, Univ of Michigan, Texas A&M, Georgia Tech, Univ of Virginia, Univ of Rochester, and UAH
Covers educational expenses for a BS, MS or PhD in one of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas; a stipend; an internship with SMDC during summers and potential for a permanent position once participants graduate with their degrees
Required to work at SMDC for a period equal to the scholarship period
For more information about SMART go to

9. Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP)
SMDC
Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP)
Program designed to recruit highly motivated college students and recent graduates with disabilities for summer internships
Candidates represent all majors, and range from college freshmen to graduate students and law students.
Students apply through their University
SMDC utilizes the WRP database to recruit summer interns
Interns gain hands-on experience while still in college
Sourced through DOL and DOD Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity

10. SMDC Current Hiring Environment
Lower than normal employee attrition
Mandated rightsizing of the workforce
Unique mission that requires specific competencies and skills
We are still seeking talented high achievers!

11. Internship Opportunities
Science, Mathematics & Research Transformation
(SMART)
Ms. Andrea Weathington, (256)
SMDC Workforce Recruitment Program
(WRP)
Ms. Mary Peoples, (256)

12. Questions