Professional Development

Overview

Your growth as a professional is a collaborative endeavor. We invite you to learn about the many ways you can enhance your professional profile through: unique collaboration with supervisors and managers; distance and on-site learning; formal education and training programs; growth planning; seminars and beyond.

Career Pathing Programs

Our investment in your growth includes career pathing programs for a number of professional categories:

• Business Development/Marketing
• Functional/Administrative
• Line/Program Management
• Project Controls

• Project/Program Management
• Systems Engineering
• Technical

Read how some of our professionals took advantage of growth opportunities within our Program Management Career Path. Learn the value of creating your Individual Development Plan.

Communities of Practice

Part of the overall professional development approach we offer includes communities of practice, where we bring together members of our science and engineering staff from across the company to:

• Share knowledge and lessons learned
• Partner to solve important technical problems for our customers
• Foster an environment of technical excellence

We offer 30 communities of practice including:

• Biometrics
• Climate
• Cyber Training and Education
• Homeland Security/Emergency Management
• Information Operations
• Modeling and Simulation
• Ocean Observation
• Open Source Software

• Organizational Effectiveness
• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
• Risk Management
• Security Engineering
• Unmanned Systems
• Virtualization
• Wireless Communications/Satellite Communications