PNT - New Equipment Fielding Manager

Overview

At Credence, we support our clients’ mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for warfighters and secure our nation for a better future.

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Credence has an upcoming need for a New Equipment Fielding Manager that will plan and manage fielding activity required to integrate mission equipment packages into tactical vehicles in support of the Army Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PM PNT) System Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) Program. The PM PNT program provides administrative, business management, programmatic contracting, information technology (IT), program management, engineering, logistics, test and evaluation (T&E), training, operations, security, technology protection, foreign military sales, and acquisition and strategic planning services to the Army director PNT systems.

The SETA services provided to PM PNT shall support the planning, development, management, sustainment, and execution of the U.S. Army’s PNT portfolio. PM PNT provides coordinated PNT system of systems architecture and associated PNT products for the Army’s mounted and dismounted platforms. PM PNT is the Army’s lifecycle manager for the Mounted Assured PNT System (MAPS), Dismounted Assured PNT System (DAPS), Assured Protection and ALTNAV Technology Development; and the Resiliency and Software Assurance Measures (RSAM), as well as any future PNT efforts in both the Contiguous United States (CONUS) and outside the contiguous United States (OCONUS). 

Salary Range

Full pay range for this position is $120,000 to $150,000 per year, with the starting wage determined based on candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience, as well as budget availability.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below

• Responsible for joint planning, execution, reporting, and improvement objectives related to Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems (MAPS) GEN II and DME New Equipment Fielding (NEF) Equipment Training (NET).
• Coordinate with PM PNT Product Support team, PM PNT Integration Team, gaining command, and other stakeholders to complete all required Total Package Fielding documentation and coordination meetings in accordance with DA PAM 770-2.  
• Synchronize NEF preparation efforts between Integration, Logistics, Training, the gaining command, and external stakeholders required for successful NEF.
• Coordinate with gaining command to verify platform availability and schedule fielding activities during modernization windows or alternate command approved timeline.
• Update and inform Integrated Master Schedule with NEF plans and execution updates.
• Verify A-Kit TDP and MWO readiness, initiate and track A-Kit production and deliver IAW Integrated Master Schedule. Maintain oversight of total available A-Kits by platform type and coordinate with the integration team to proactively place orders as necessary for future fielding objectives.  
• Coordinate with platform OEM’s to ensure contracts are in place for platform installation teams.
• Coordinate with the logistics team to ensure shipments of A and B-kits align to joint inventory and property book transfer timelines preceding NEF.
• Conduct Site Survey’s to verify information required for Integration, Logistics, Training activities, and Vehicle Readiness. Identify Points of Contact, facilities, storage and installation bays, training classrooms, transportation and material handling support, and verify platform quantities and readiness for installation,
• Field Installations: On site support during the installation of prefabricated kits (displays, GPS antennas, mounts, brackets) into host platforms, including tactical vehicles, and provide on-site troubleshooting and assistance. Document integration and fielding challenges, develop After Action Reports and follow up with list of required actions to correct discrepancies and continuously improve fielding events.
• Collaboration with Teams (Stakeholder Communication): Work closely with the systems engineering team, product teams, and platform integration experts to validate and verify integration activities and system performance during NEF. Communicate information back to the unit.
• Facilities coordination meetings, briefings, and status updates.
• Fielding Document