Your experience as a Research and Development Engineer in the Air Force, particularly your involvement in acquisition program management and systems engineering, directly translates to the responsibilities of a Technical Program Manager. You have experience in program control, configuration management, and integrated logistics support. Your ability to manage projects from the conceptual phase through deployment aligns with the project management aspects of this role.

Your background in data analysis and interpretation, coupled with your use of tools like MATLAB/Simulink for experimental data, provides a solid foundation for a Data Analyst role. You're familiar with collecting, evaluating, and interpreting data to write detailed reports, a core skill for analyzing datasets and identifying trends.

Your experience in checking materials quality and equipment performance, combined with your knowledge of configuration management, provides a good starting point for QA. Learning test automation frameworks, like Selenium or Cypress, will allow you to leverage your attention to detail to ensure software quality through automated testing.

Your role involved identifying and resolving subsystem, hardware, and software interface problems. This aligns well with the responsibilities of a Computer Systems Analyst, who analyzes an organization's computer systems and recommends improvements. Your systems engineering and integrated logistics support experience are relevant. Further training in modern system analysis tools would be beneficial.