The last year that I was in (the Army) I did some minor consulting work with Cubic Defense Systems. They are based in San Diego, and they flew me down from Wainwright a couple of times. I was helping to design the MILES 2000 system (make it arctic friendly and GPS capable) with their engineers.

Seemed like a pretty top-notch outfit, good budget and a long history of working with/for the DoD.
Plus, they named Mike Steele (my former CG in the 82d) their CEO a few years ago.

Do a Google and see if they are hiring (I know they have some of those contractor positions open for targeting system trainers and whatnot).