What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Protection Specialist position at Defense Acquisition Support Services LLC?
Summary
The Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) is seeking a Program Protection Specialist to support the Human Machine Integrated Formations (HMIF) Project Office (PO). The HMIF PO will collaboratively develop two complex HMIF formations, one integrated formation for an Armor BCT and one formation for an Infantry BCT within 27 months. The Program Protection specialist will support the HMIF PO to identify and protect Critical Program Information (CPI) and analyze the development of program protection plans (PPPs) and solutions to ensure that developed and fielded capabilities deter efforts to reverse engineer (RE), exploit, or develop countermeasures and ensure against RE, replication, or modification by an unauthorized entity.
Responsibilities
- Conduct periodic reviews for, and update directorate program protection plans, anti-tamper plans, security classification guides, technology assessment and control plan, System Security Engineering Management Plan,
- Responsible for identifying threats and analyzing incidents
- Review HMIF acquisition documents for compliance with Critical Program Information (CPI) protection requirements
- Support administration of the Critical Intelligence Support Plan (CISP), to include: conducting annual program site visits to evaluate the design, implementation and verification of system security provisions; evaluate change proposals (e.g., Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), Request for Change (RFC), Task Change Proposals (TCPs), Contract Change Proposals (CCPs), waivers and deviations, and acquisition strategy), and provide security assessments.
- Evaluate internal, public, classified, unclassified, and foreign government requests for information
- Develop, publish and maintain a program protection plan matrix that identifies current status for various related program protection documents.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Active Secret Clearance
- Requires a BS Degree plus 5 years Program Protection experience
- 10 years' of experience in a security environment.
- Proficient in MS Office tools, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Requires the ability to gain a functional understanding of supported programs through reading technical/system description documents, and use that understanding to inform threat and vulnerability analysis activity; supported systems primarily cyber/IT-based in nature.
- A broad background with significant experience in all areas of defense security, including: operations security, information security, information assurance, communications security, personnel security, physical security, classification management, and foreign disclosure.
- Required Travel: 10%
Desired Skills
- Excellent written and oral English language communication skills
- Analytical experience conducting, documenting, reviewing, and recommending mitigation to threat, vulnerability and risk assessments.
- Experience with project risk management processes (identification, analysis, mitigation, monitoring and planning) and tools (Project Recon, ARM) is preferred.
About DAS: Defense Acquisition Support Services is a Women Owned Small Business focused on hiring the very best people in Defense Contracting. As a Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) focused organization, we partner with the government to help them achieve Mission Success. Established in 2007, we have remained People Focused and understand the secret to organizational success is the team. Our People Focused approach enables us to hire, retain, and help our teammates succeed and assist them by providing the very best possible support available to our government customers.
The DAS Culture: We are People Focused. Each team member gets an employee concierge who is charged with helping ensure personal and professional success for our people. We care and try to help people find the right fit so they can find happiness, development, and a rewarding career. We succeed by helping you succeed.
DAS Benefits: We provide real benefits for our team that includes:
- Free Health Care from Aetna
- Dental Coverage
- Vision Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- 401K
- Employer Paid Group Life
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Professional Development Training
