Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program Analyst, F-35 Future Capability and Technology (FCAT) Support (Hybrid Telework) - Arlington, VA

Position Description

Serco is excited to continue our support to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Office. This contract provides program management support in support of the full acquisition lifecycle of the F-35 program, to include development, production, and sustainment.

 

This position is contingent upon your ability to maintain/transfer an active DoD Secret security clearance.

 

 

Our Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program Analyst, located in Crystal City, Arlington, VA, supports the F-35 JPO Future Capability & Technology (FCAT) Directorate in its mission in achieving Kill-Chain dominance through Intelligence, robust Operational Analysis (OA), requirements integration and analysis, and Research and Technology exploration, for all elements of the F-35 Air System. Our Program Analyst supports FCAT in leading, identifying, maturing, informing, and transitioning capability candidate nominations and integration planning for insertion into the F-35 Air System Program of Record (PoR), to and on behalf of the U.S. Services and International Partner countries.

Our Program Analysts review and evaluate business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs. Familiar with relational database concepts, and client-server concepts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complicated tasks. May lead and direct the work of others. May report directly to a project lead or manager. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

 

In this role, you will:

• Intelligence – Assist FCAT in providing all intelligence support required across the three Intel pillars of Threat, Intel Supportability Analysis (SA), and Intel Disclosure/Release by supporting every aspect of the program. Assist FCAT in serving as the designated liaison between the Program and the Services and Intel community; providing constantly updated current and forecast threat information to stakeholders to drive requirements and engineering analysis.
• Assist FCAT in ensuring all intelligence equities involved with fielding and exporting F-35 (e.g., intelligence mission data) are defined, engineered, and sustained.
• Air System Requirements Assessment, Development, and Approval in collaboration with External Stakeholders. Assist FCAT in managing the Pre-PoR F-35 Air System Requirements and in creating, maintaining, and promulgating a comprehensive Roadmap to inform the PMOs of risks and opportunities for the F-35 Program.
• Assist FCAT in developing the F-35 Flight Plan which provides an integrated strategy for F-35 capabilities focusing on Participant’s future requirements over the next five to ten years and ensuring warfighter capability need dates are being clearly communicated to the PoR activities within the JPO. Assist FCAT in maturing and recommending for approval all new F-35 requirements, developing the Flight Plan and New Capabilities Decision Memoranda.
• Research and Technology (R&T) – assist FCAT in researching and assisting in development of technology through discovery, sponsorship, candidate studies and analysis, maturation, prototyping, experimentation, demonstration, and transition for relevant technology solutions for consideration and prioritization to transition into the F-35 PoR.
• Strategic Acquisition and Transition Planning (SATP) – assist FCAT in developing strategy for incorporating capability requirements defined by the Air Systems Requirements (ASR) team and technology developed by the R&T team into an acquisition program that is ready to be incorporated into the PoR and transitioned to the PMOs for execution.
• Program Strategy – assist FCAT in integrating research and emerging policy in National Defense Strategy, global geo-political domains, warfighting tactics, operations, kill chain, applied technology domain, global business, and market practices into F-35 JPO Program Strategy as well as in providing effective coaching and maintains strategic dialogue with JPO and external stakeholders.
• Governance Structure – assist FCAT in leading Requirements Working Group (RWG), Operational Advisory Group (OAG), Senior Warfighter Group (SWG), JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) Executive Steering Board (JESB) and in assisting with Configuration Steering Board (CSB) and requirements portion of the U.S. Executive Steering Group.
• Transfer requirements from the FCAT to the PoR – assist FCAT in providing applicable acquisition documentation and planning materials to the PMOs for execution, in collaboration with the PMOs.

 

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Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you must have: