Director, Industrial Base Transformation

ASI Government provides government leaders with the expertise they need to navigate acquisition and organizational challenges so they can make an impact and achieve their goals. For over 30 years, ASI has transformed the way government does business, impacting over 70 government agencies across the civilian, defense, and intelligence communities.
Do you thrive on creating unique and impactful value for Federal clients? Are you passionate about partnering with clients and collaborating to create solutions? Do you enjoy the opportunity to drive change that impacts our nation?
We are looking for smart, curious, driven individuals to join us in partnering with our client to help them solve some of the nation’s most challenging problems. ASI Government serves as a trusted adviser to government leaders seeking improved performance, enhanced organization effectiveness, and strategic change.
*High frequency Travel throughout the United States. Current Locations include, but not limited to:
Ft. Meade, Maryland
Ft Belvoir, VA
Fayetteville, NC
Pentagon - Arlington, VA
Wright Patterson AFB - Dayton, OH
Tinkers AFB - Oklahoma City, OK
Space Force - Colorado Springs, CO
DoW Practice Overview:
ASI Government’s rapidly growing Department of War portfolio supports defense leaders in achieving mission-critical outcomes for our nation. Our teams work across the Navy, Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency, and other DoW organizations to address complex challenges in acquisition, industrial-base resilience, emerging technology, workforce, and organizational transformation. We bring together deep mission expertise and rigorous consulting capabilities to translate strategic priorities into practical, measurable results. This is an exciting time to join ASI’s DoW practice: team members can contribute across high-priority engagements, build trusted relationships with senior defense leaders, and help shape the capabilities, offerings, and client partnerships that will define the portfolio’s next stage of growth. We are looking for adaptable, entrepreneurial leaders who thrive in new and ambiguous environments and want to help expand ASI’s impact across the defense mission.
Job Description:
The Director, Industrial Base Transformation is a consulting leader, capability builder, and trusted adviser who will help establish and grow ASI Government's Industrial Base capability. The Director will initially support a high-priority Department of War effort focused on the unmanned systems industrial base, working alongside senior ASI leaders, government stakeholders, industry and technical experts, and a leading strategy consulting partner. The work spans industrial base risk identification, supply-chain and manufacturing capacity, alternative supplier identification, production acceleration, and implementation of interventions designed to strengthen domestic manufacturing and accelerate delivery of critical capabilities.
This is not a traditional subject-matter-expert role. We are looking for an experienced consultant and builder who combines exceptional structured problem solving, executive communication, and delivery discipline with meaningful knowledge of the defense industrial base, manufacturing, supply chains, aerospace and defense, or unmanned systems. The Director will help ASI deliver immediate value to the client while simultaneously building the people, expert network, methodologies, partnerships, and intellectual capital necessary for ASI to independently lead future industrial base engagements.
The role begins as a hands-on individual contributor or lean-team leader. The successful candidate must be comfortable personally structuring analyses, building and editing PowerPoint and Excel deliverables, running client and expert working sessions, synthesizing complex technical inputs, and resolving day-to-day delivery issues without relying on a large support team. The ideal candidate is intrepid and entrepreneurial: comfortable entering an emerging problem space, rapidly developing expertise, mobilizing external experts, creating structure where little exists, and turning insights into practical action.
Key Responsibilities:
Client leadership and trusted advisory
Serve as a senior day-to-day interface with client stakeholders; anticipate needs, read stakeholder dynamics, and build credibility through sound judgment, responsiveness, and follow-through.
Frame ambiguous industrial-base problems, develop clear points of view, and provide strategic ideas and practical recommendations that reflect mission priorities, operating context, technical realities, and implementation constraints.
Design and lead executive meetings, working sessions, expert panels, decision forums, and difficult conversations with concise messaging and confident facilitation.
Operate independently in sensitive client situations, escalating selectively and bringing proposed solutions rather than unresolved problems.
Industrial Base engagement delivery
Embed in the current DoW unmanned-systems Industrial Base effort and identify discrete work lanes where ASI can contribute differentiated, visible value without duplicating partner-led analysis.
Structure and synthesize analyses spanning supplier landscapes, component and subcomponent risks, production capacity, demand signals, bottlenecks, alternative suppliers, investment options, and production-acceleration strategies.
Translate industrial-base analysis into executable courses of action, including supplier onboarding, manufacturing expansion, investment and de-risking options, intervention tracking, and implementation roadmaps.
Integrate qualitative expert judgment with quantitative and data-driven analyses to produce decision-oriented recommendations for senior government leaders.
Industrial Base Expert Network