Program Protection Specialist

Gray Analytics was founded in 2018 with a vision to bring innovative and creative solutions in the cybersecurity, IT, engineering, and scientific spheres. Our customers span across the commercial and federal domains with our goal being to bring excellent customer service to our clients and employees.

Without the bureaucracy that often exists in larger corporations, Gray Analytics offers increased work flexibility, visibility in company progress, and greater opportunities for advancement. It's with our employees' support that we can help our clients achieve mission and operational success.

At Gray Analytics, our goal is simple: to help our country, its businesses, and its organizations improve security in the Cyber realm. Period.

Position: Program Protection Specialist

Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Required Travel: Yes

Position Description:

Gray Analytics is seeking a Program Protection Specialist to support the Human Machine Integrated Formations (HMIF) Project Office (PO) at the Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO). 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.

Essential Job Functions:

• 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 Skills:

• Requires a BS Degree plus 5 years Program Protection experience
• Secret clearance required to start
• 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.
• Secret clearance

Required Experience:

• 10 years' of experience in a security environment.

Desired Qualifications:

• 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.

Required Travel: 10%

Clearance: Secret

About Gray Analytics

Gray Analytics values our employees as our most important resource. To showcase these values, we offer not only traditional medical, disability, life, etc. coverages that begin on day one of employment, but also unique benefits to improve our employees' quality of life. Some of these unique benefits include:

• A PTO policy based on total years of experience, not years of service to the company. PTO is available for use immediately at hire, subject to company needs.
• Eligibility for 401K contributions and company matching, Pet Insurance through Spot, Flexible Spending Account, and Tuition and Professional Development Funds begin on day one of employment.
• Charitable donations program on a yearly and quarterly basis where employees can nominate a non-profit of choice to receive donations.

Gray Analytics is an Equal Opportunity Employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability. Gray Analytics, Inc. welcomes minority and veteran applicants.