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Senior Program Analyst
Lexington Park, MarylandMust be U.S. Citizen
Clearance Required: SECRET ABILITY TO OBTAIN TS/SCI
Education:
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration or Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Degree, Project Management Professional (PMP), or relevant technical discipline. Allowable Substitution: Bachelor’s Degree or Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), plus 4 years additional work experience; A.A./A.S. degree with an additional 5 years’ experience, or no degree and eight (8) years’ relevant experience.
Position Description:
Serves as a Program Analyst for the Level 1 Low Band Integrated Product Team (IPT) in the PMA-234, Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Systems Program Office. PMA-234 is responsible for acquiring, delivering, and sustaining Airborne Electronic Attack systems and providing combatant commanders with Electronic Warfare capabilities that critically enable operational mission success. The Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) development effort is the next step in Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA). Naval Aviation needs to meet advanced and emerging electronic warfare (EW) threats and provide continuous expansion of the AEA mission area. The Low Band Level I team consists of two major IPTs as well as a robust systems engineering organization that includes Pod Systems and Pod Integration and Mission Systems groups. The recently awarded, Low Band Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) effort is a Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP)/ Acquisition Category (ACAT) 1D for the design, production and delivery of electronic warfare test articles and fleet prototypes.
The analyst will assist the Low Band leadership team in managing, analyzing, and executing the Level I team’s various programs to achieve cost, schedule, and performance requirements in accordance with established program documentation and NAVAIR/DoD guidelines. Responsibilities include a wide range of data gathering and analysis, supporting the development, testing, production, acquisition, integration, and sustainment of multiple Low Band efforts. This will be a highly versatile position where the analyst will learn new terminologies, multiple, critical program support functions, and IT-enabled applications in short order to support a broad range of program activities. The leadership team is looking for an individual who “critically thinks, is willing to learn new skills, and tackle new challenges.”
The analyst will utilize multiple systems, tools and analytical techniques (e.g., NAVAIR Acquisition Management System (AMS), Risk Issues and Opportunities Management Tool, Health of Test and Evaluation, Risk Management Framework Tool, Earned Value Management (EVM), Integrated Master Schedule analysis) to build an integrated program picture that identifies seams issues and provides early warning of emerging risks that can impact cost, schedule and technical performance. The analyst will build “close-to-ready” executive briefs for the leadership team to give to the Program Manager, Principal Deputy Program Manager, Flag and Senior Executive Leadership. Low Band EMD is on a challenging, accelerated schedule to critical program milestones. As such, the analyst will rapidly adapt program analytics to provide predictive insight to achievement of program, Knowledge Points, and milestone entrance/exit criteria.
Required Experience:
Clearance Required: SECRET ABILITY TO OBTAIN TS/SCI
Education:
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration or Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Degree, Project Management Professional (PMP), or relevant technical discipline. Allowable Substitution: Bachelor’s Degree or Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), plus 4 years additional work experience; A.A./A.S. degree with an additional 5 years’ experience, or no degree and eight (8) years’ relevant experience.
Position Description:
Serves as a Program Analyst for the Level 1 Low Band Integrated Product Team (IPT) in the PMA-234, Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Systems Program Office. PMA-234 is responsible for acquiring, delivering, and sustaining Airborne Electronic Attack systems and providing combatant commanders with Electronic Warfare capabilities that critically enable operational mission success. The Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) development effort is the next step in Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA). Naval Aviation needs to meet advanced and emerging electronic warfare (EW) threats and provide continuous expansion of the AEA mission area. The Low Band Level I team consists of two major IPTs as well as a robust systems engineering organization that includes Pod Systems and Pod Integration and Mission Systems groups. The recently awarded, Low Band Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) effort is a Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP)/ Acquisition Category (ACAT) 1D for the design, production and delivery of electronic warfare test articles and fleet prototypes.
The analyst will assist the Low Band leadership team in managing, analyzing, and executing the Level I team’s various programs to achieve cost, schedule, and performance requirements in accordance with established program documentation and NAVAIR/DoD guidelines. Responsibilities include a wide range of data gathering and analysis, supporting the development, testing, production, acquisition, integration, and sustainment of multiple Low Band efforts. This will be a highly versatile position where the analyst will learn new terminologies, multiple, critical program support functions, and IT-enabled applications in short order to support a broad range of program activities. The leadership team is looking for an individual who “critically thinks, is willing to learn new skills, and tackle new challenges.”
The analyst will utilize multiple systems, tools and analytical techniques (e.g., NAVAIR Acquisition Management System (AMS), Risk Issues and Opportunities Management Tool, Health of Test and Evaluation, Risk Management Framework Tool, Earned Value Management (EVM), Integrated Master Schedule analysis) to build an integrated program picture that identifies seams issues and provides early warning of emerging risks that can impact cost, schedule and technical performance. The analyst will build “close-to-ready” executive briefs for the leadership team to give to the Program Manager, Principal Deputy Program Manager, Flag and Senior Executive Leadership. Low Band EMD is on a challenging, accelerated schedule to critical program milestones. As such, the analyst will rapidly adapt program analytics to provide predictive insight to achievement of program, Knowledge Points, and milestone entrance/exit criteria.
Required Experience:
- Assist the Level I team with all research for projects.
- Assist the Level I with customer communications.
- Identifies impact of program performance, issues, and risk to Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) process and informs stakeholders.
- In a dynamic environment, support the leadership team in building an exemplary program integration effort that drives consistency and credibility across acquisition documentation, budget, POM, executive briefs, and public release artifacts.
- Provide detailed input to the Acquisition Team for Selected Acquisition Reports (SARs), Defense Acquisition Executive Summaries (DAES), and Research Development Acquisition Information System (RDAIS) and other congressional and executive-level program information documents.
- Review program progress and track status of vendor critical contract deadlines to identify and report potential problems and/or issues with prime contractor and/or USG schedule conflicts, resource scarcity, and proposed solutions.
- Identify, and securely administer Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) for the IPT as required.
- Support the leadership team in strategic messaging and building, clear, succinct executive program briefs that convey the strategy.
- Assimilate data/ information from, multiple, DON, DoD, and internal program systems/databases to provide an integrated, program assessment for leadership.
- Assess if hardware procurement and support contracts are awarded in a timely manner, and the impacts of identified risks and issues.
- Maintain IPT metrics ranging from Technical Performance Measures (TPMs) to AMS-related metrics from CDRL, CSPT or PMT.
- Analyze program performance relative to the Low Band Acquisition Program Baseline Agreement (APBA).
- Utilize the Risk Issues and Opportunities (RIO) database to correlate RIO entries to CSPT, CDRL, and PMT indicators. Conduct RIO trend analysis to forecast and assess impacts to program thresholds and objectives.