Program Protection Specialist

Avion Solutions Inc., an employee-owned company, seeks candidates for a Program Protection Specialist to support The Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO). This position is based in Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

Job Responsibilities/Duties:

• Will support the Human Machine Integrated Formations (HMIF) Project Office (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.
• Conduct periodic reviews and update directorate program protection plans, anti-tamper plans, security classification guides, technology assessment and control plans, and the 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 the current status of various related program protection documents.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Experience:

• Requires a BS Degree plus 10+ years of experience in a security environment with 5+ years of Program Protection experience.
• 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 are primarily cyber/IT-based.
• 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.
• Must be a US Citizen and have a DoD Secret Security Clearance.
• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time. US travel only.

Preferred 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.

Equal Opportunity: Avion Solutions, Inc. reaffirms its belief in equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants. Avion Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and a VEVRAA-governed Federal Contractor who affords equal employment opportunity to protected veterans and people with disabilities. Avion Solutions, Inc. provides all employees and job applicants equal employment opportunities in hiring and promotion without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, religion, color, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, national origin or any other reason prohibited by law.