L-3 job description

[Richard]

Someone is going to the moon and beyond.

Job Description: Do you want to use your unique talents?You can! While being a full-time employee of L-3 enjoying our great benefits and industry reputation, you can work at our client site as part of a team working within the NASA Johnson Space Center's engineering community to support the development of the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and future Constellation vehicles. This work takes place in a highly stimulating and dynamic environment that is critical in the human space exploration initiative. We have a growing group of professionals providing creative and innovative engineering solutions and we invite you to join us!We have a challenging opportunity available for an experienced Space Vehicle Software Simulation Engineers and Math Model Developers to support development of the Constellation Training Facility (CxTF) at the NASA / Johnson Space Center (JSC). The CxTF will be the high-fidelity simulation and astronaut training facility used to model the Constellation Program space vehicles, e.g., Crew Exploration Vehicle and Lunar Lander that will take the U.S. back to the Moon and on to Mars. This facility will be used for engineering analysis and to train NASA's next generation of astronauts. Work involves space vehicle systems simulation, math model development, and integration on Linux PC platforms using the Trick Simulation Environment Toolkit. Individual will develop large scale, high-fidelity simulation math models for NASA's end-to-end CxTF. Will debug, test, and verify work with simulation math models and simulation facilities. Provide Space vehicle subsystem simulation development and integration, vehicle functional and flight software integration, and math model requirements, architecture definition, and design.The individual must share our passion for our Nation's Space Program and share in the excitement of developing the next human-piloted space exploration vehicle.

 

[vontresc]

Didn't they just cancel that program???

 

[Richard]

I suspect when it comes to the govt that cancellation of a project does not necessarily include canceling those contracts let to support that project.

Anyway, this job ad was time marked of this afternoon; it is a new advertisement.

 

[murphey]

Didn't they just cancel that program???

well, they cancelled funding as of Sep 2011 at Lockheed Martin. Anyone and everyone who could find another program to jump to, did as early as 2007. The program was a year behind even then.

Interesting that the position is for the flight computer. LM was doing all of it in the Colorado office.


Veeerrrrrry interesting....

 

[ScottM]

Didn't they just cancel that program???

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/os-nasa-ares-rocket-constellation-20101227,0,2096166.story

The odd scenario, in which NASA is throwing money at a canceled rocket program but can't fund a modernization program, is because of several twists in the legislative process that started a year ago and came to a head this month.

At the root of the problem is a 70-word sentence inserted into the 2010 budget — by lawmakers seeking to protect Ares I jobs in their home states — that bars NASA from shutting down the program until Congress passed a new budget a year later.

That should have happened before the Oct. 1 start of the federal fiscal year.

But Congress never passed a 2011 budget and instead voted this month to extend the 2010 budget until March — so NASA still must abide by the 2010 language.

That means NASA and its contractors are required to keep building Ares I, even though Obama effectively killed it when he signed the new NASA plan that canceled the Constellation moon program begun under President George W. Bush.