Mission Assurance Engineer - Department of Homeland Security

SMX is seeing a Mission Assurance Engineer that will play a vital role in supporting the US Navy by providing technical advice, analysis, and support to enable implementation of the Mission Assurance Construct as outlined in DoD and Service Prescribing directives to support identification, assessment, risk management, and monitoring of military service strategic assets.

This position requires a DoD TS/SCI security clearance which requires US citizenship for work on DoD contracts.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Produce supporting documentation, slides, and analysis, advising on agendas, facilitating, supporting and enabling tasking development and cross DoD and external coordination, supporting staff and senior engagements, producing Statements of Conclusions and other documents after meetings, scheduling assistance, maintaining POC lists on the NIPR, SIPR, and JWICs level, and addressing other required communication and logistics needs
• Participate in and enable execution of Mission Assurance Coordination Board (MACB) driven functions and business engineering meetings
• Provide technical advice, analysis, and recommendations to integrate the Mission Assurance Construct into broader processes, to include departmental budget processes, formal guidance, and key OSD, Joint Staff, COCOM and Military strategic level process and guidance documents
• Provide analysis and support for reviews and drafting of USG and DoD Strategic Guidance Documents relevant to MA, Defense Critical Infrastructure, and resilience, to include but not limited to: the USG National Security Strategy, DoD’s National Defense Strategy and related implementation guidance, Contingency Planning Guidance, Defense Planning Guidance, Joint Staff’s Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan, Risk Assessment, Theater and Functional Campaign Plans, Operational Plans, and Contingency Plans Provide technical support and advice in these reviews to assist in identifying strategic risk management issues that are relevant to MA
• Prepare and coordinate draft packages and updates for contractor government leaders as needed to seek decision on or keep them informed of the status of MA construct implementation
• Support synchronization of MA guidance and any subsequent documents Provide technical advice and assistance to improve and enable incorporation of the MA construct into MA-related programs and activities (such as adaptive planning, cybersecurity, energy resilience, law enforcement, global and domestic antiterrorism, defense critical infrastructure, fire prevention and protection, munitions operations risk management, Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) preparedness, emergency management, insider threat, readiness reporting, and continuity of operations), to include through routine reviews of instructions and guidance for these programs
• Provide technical analysis, and support in reviewing additions, modifications, or deletions to the prioritization of Defense Critical Asset lists, and Defense Critical Missions, and on developing other lists, derived from MA construct analysis to support DoD strategic requirements and senior leader needs
• To inform guidance to direct and improve MA assessments (MAA) This includes reviewing assessments, threat reporting, and other documents to identify those issues and vulnerabilities that merit priority for MA risk management at the Mission Assurance Categories
• Work with assessors, the IC, and others, assisting in developing novel approaches to make the assessment process more timely, relevant, and responsive to current threats, supporting development and integration of assessments from red team, blue teams, and cyber teams
• For evolving mechanisms and/or processes that enable the management risk of and monitor the status of Defense Critical Assets (DCAs), Task Critical Assets (TCAs), and other Defense Critical Infrastructure (DCI), ensuring that the MACB exercises visibility on the impact of a threat or hazard has on strategic readiness as well as awareness of DoD component mitigation actions in response to a warning or incident, intended to mitigate an adverse impact to a given military operation or infrastructure
• In enabling the development and functions of the MA databases, information sharing, and information management, to include supporting Director MA in co-chairing governance and working groups, participating and supporting staff level meetings to support MA data management with joint staff
• Providing recommendations on Policy guidance to align evolving database capabilities with MA construct and policy needs, assisting with monitoring program office execution of policy guidance, monitoring and facilitating access to databases to those with a need to know, and assisting in establishing approaches, relationships, and direction that will drive and en