Sr International Acquisitions Technical & Engineering Support

• Provide senior subject matter expertise (SME) to the Program Management Office as part of a support team to the Program Manager (PM).
• Advises the PM throughout the acquisition life-cycle, to include material solution analysis support, providing advice on Source Selection Proposals, Task Order Proposals, Request for Change (RFCs) Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), related security Certification and Accreditation (C&A) activities, development, testing, transition and operations.
• Provide advice and support to manage and mitigate and risks and issues through the program life-cycle with key focus on cost, schedule and performance.
• Provide advice and support to the PM beginning with the early stages of the system life-cycle to initiate the C&A process for any new system initiation as directed by the various portfolio stakeholders.
• Provide senior SME support to program office representatives at briefings, discussion or Technical Exchange Meetings.
• Provides input to the PM on ECPs, budget and other taskers or actions necessary in support of the program overall mission in support of Geospatial Non-Standard Data Content.
• Support PM in planning and technical exchanges between prime contractor, segments, projects and stakeholders.
• Participate in NSG and ASG fora and technical reviews and evaluate external program system changes for impacts to the International Program.
• Author system CONOPS, systems architectures and requirements documents.
• Conducts risk, issue and opportunity analysis.
• Identify opportunities for International partner participation in future and emerging NSG capabilities, and evaluate emerging technologies for inclusion in the International Program.

Duties include:

• Attend weekly staff meeting to keep office abreast of activities and issues.
• Support and participate in program management reviews and any program status meetings/briefings that may be conducted by the vendor.
• Coordinate readiness process reviews with Readiness Review Team Chairman, development contractor and program office throughout life-cycle of program.
• Coordinate and participate in TEMs between the contractor and NGA segments to resolve issues, support the implementation of any new RFCs by the engineering group and address external organization’s questions.
• Provide detailed input at design/development/test/operational reviews.
• Attend interface segment requirement reviews, design reviews, and meeting dry-runs, as necessary, and identify issues and ensure sufficient requirements and understanding or proper design considerations are included.
• Support the development of risk, issue and opportunity management plans.
• Conduct qualitative risk assessment.
• Support the development of quality assurance plans and metrics.
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to ensure integration of all defined requirements and functionality.
• Interact with development contractors to ensure successful integration based on program scope, requirements, and constraints.
• Provide the PM and COR with property accountability support and advices him/her of any changes or necessary action under the agencies Total Access Management system.
• Provide senior SME support to daily technical issues and future requirements activities.
• Coordinate with development contractor, NCAT security, NGA security offices, and OCIO to maintain active C&A program.
• Facilitate TEMs to resolve any C&A issues.
• Plan coordinate and execute all formal test activities under the Verification and Validation Groups (VVG) supervision and the Assisted Service Testing Model initiated by VVG which is executed by the Program Management Office.
• Coordinate and track test events related to future software deliveries at factory and any delivery site.
• Review Technical Measurement Parameters.
• Provide oversight and support as the PMO lead validator during any formal test event and provide the PM results of all executed tests outcome regarding a decision in deployment of the operational baseline to the field.
• Coordinate internal test planning meetings for the test of new software deliveries with the development contractor.
• Support the development of integration plans to transition program services and functionality into the NSG Enterprise.
• Coordinate transition of software builds, new hardware, or discrepancies (DR) fixes into operations.

Required:

• • Demonstrated experience with acquisition of government systems.
• • Active TS/SCI with CI eligibility

Desired:

• Understand the geospatial intelligence mission and its contribution to the IC.
• Knowledge of NGA processes and tools, to include Systems Engineering, Acquisition, Configuration Management, Quality, Readiness and Security.
• Knowledge of NGA requirements process for (Non State Entities (NSEs) and NGA Crisis Action Teams (NCATs).
• Familiarity with Microsoft SharePoint.
• Knowledge of quality assurance and control processes.
• Detailed knowledge of risk management processes.
• Familiarity with NSG and ASG architectures.
• Familiarity with NGA ISP/ASP Model.
• Familiarity with NGA/TI Programs.