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Senior Security Specialist

Amentum
Springfield, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Jul 2025

About the role

Amentum is seeking a Senior Security Specialist to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Office of Security (SIS) in Springfield, VA.

Duties may include:

  • Monitor and manage security programs and operations supported by providing status reports and recommendations for decisions.
  • Assist, collaborate, and coordinate with other SIS offices and divisions (SISP, SISO, SISI, SISM, SISX, SISS, etc.).
  • Develop solutions, and convey to internal and external customers.
  • Provide agency level technical expertise concerning the identified security disciplines and operations support.
  • Monitor security applications through the review and analysis of appropriate metrics and maintain required records.
  • Prepare and disseminate security procedures/guidance.
  • Provide guidance as required in implementing security requirements.
  • Manage project milestones.
  • Develop life cycle plans.
  • Update and maintain appropriate records (e.g. database and hardcopy) of security actions.
  • Conduct inspections and performs assistance visits, as required
  • Liaise with members of the DoD, the IC and other officials as required to keep abreast of current personnel.
  • Interpret security policy on matters pertaining to processing, dissemination,
  • and controlling of classified materials.
  • Receive, control and safeguard SCI and collateral information.
  • Acts as liaison between NGA and other federal agencies and contractors.
  • Risk management – conducts surveys and render impact statements or recommendations.
  • Prepare and deliver briefings to internal and external customers. Prepares various forms of correspondence.
  • Monitor and manage security operations and provide government with status reports and recommendations for decisions.
  • Apply experience in supporting security concepts, principles and practices to analyze and resolve difficult and complex security issues.
  • Provide security guidance to contractors using DoD and IC regulations and requirements, analyze complex data and make appropriate program recommendations.
  • Investigate and prepare impact statements, and provide recommendations on security/security violations.
  • Prepare SCI Controlled Access Programs (CAP’s), Special Access Programs (SAP), Alternative Compensatory Control Measures (ACCM) and other collateral materials for shipment to other agencies/sites IAW applicable security handling procedures.
  • Prepare outgoing classified messages on employees/contractors visiting other government facilities.
  • Provide technical security expertise in one or more of the following security disciplines: personnel, physical/industrial, computer investigations, and operations.
  • Utilize security concepts, principles and practices to analyze and resolve difficult and complex security issues.
  • Monitor security applications through the review and analysis of appropriate metrics.
  • Develop the required program/operation to support tasks/requirements.
  • Access to Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information (CNWDI) to be 28 UNCLASSIFIED eligible to indoctrinate/debrief their customers in support of NGA’s GEOINT mission.
  • Access to Restricted Data (RD) to be eligible to indoctrinate/debrief their customers in support of NGA’s GEOINT mission.
  • Manage Foreign Government Information (FGI) as required for Security Officer support to meet NGA’s GEOINT mission.
  • Obtain Access to Special Access Program (SAP), Control Access Program (CAP) and/or Alternate Compensatory Control Measures (ACCM) Information as required for the execution of NGA’s sensitive program mission (SISS).
  • Assist the Directorate stakeholders in implementing appropriate classification management efforts (at the Sensitive Compartment Information (SCI) and collateral levels) by providing approved classified guidance, release procedures, and marking criteria.
  • Share knowledge and experience to facilitate effective practices and increase staff awareness of best practices.
  • Provide timely classification management expertise to resolve complex classification management issues.
  • Maintained personal classification expertise through collaboration with ODNI and IC classification management communities.
  • Develop innovative techniques to implement training and compliance with established classification management policies.
  • Participate in related training, informational briefings, and assist in responding to related agency taskers.

Required:

  • Demonstrate 10experience applying Executive Orders 12333,13526 and 13556, Intelligence Community Directives (ICD) 703 & 710 and DoD Manual 5200.01 standards to classified national security information, controlled unclassified i

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