Program Protection Plans (PPPs): Help draft, review, coordinate, and update PPPs to support major acquisition milestone decisions and leadership reviews.
Critical Program Information (CPI): Coordinate with program executives and technical subject matter experts to identify, document, and track CPI.
Database Management: Maintain and validate accurate PPP and CPI records and documentation.
Horizontal Protection: Support and implement horizontal protection strategies across multiple Army acquisition programs to prevent recurring vulnerabilities or security gaps.
Risk & Vulnerability Analysis: Analyze functional designs for security weaknesses, evaluate threat impacts, and recommend risk mitigation alternatives or anti-tamper safeguards.
Stakeholder Coordination: Effective communication of thoughts, analysis, and results with program protection working groups and/or integrated product teams and align requirements with DoD policies, the Risk Management Framework (RMF), and supply chain risk management (SCRM).
Security clearance or the ability to obtain clearance is required. This usually requires United States citizenship.
High School Diploma (Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field preferred).
17 or more years of experience (with HS Diploma, 14 years experience with Bachelor's degree) in Program Protection analysis, Program Protection Plans, Testing, and/or DevOps experience.
Experience must be with U.S. defense systems embedded software, firmware, and hardware.
Knowledge of defense acquisition security, governance processes, or systems engineering technical reviews (SETR).
Demonstrated compliance with DoW baseline cybersecurity standards.
Familiarity with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), DoD instruction/policy on program protection.
Experience throughout the defense system acquisition lifecycle.
Proven ability to work collaboratively on project requirements.
Must have security clearance or ability to obtain one. This generally requires United States Citizenship.
Work Location: Customer-site (Redstone Arsenal)
Telework Available: No
Travel: 0-10%.
Relocation Assistance Available: No