Strategic System Program Protection Analyst

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory•Laurel, MD

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Are you searching for meaningful work in technical efforts that enable U.S. strategic deterrence objectives to shape and prevail against threats? Do you enjoy shaping and nurturing a varied portfolio of threat intelligence application and program protection activities that are critical to Navy and Air Force strategic deterrent systems? Are you passionate about using innovation, emerging technology and insights to solve challenges involving the defense of the U.S. and/or allies? If so, we are looking for someone like you to help lead the System Realization and Resilience Group (KBR) within the Force Projection Sector at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) located in Laurel MD. Our team is responsible for enabling the realization of strategic systems, ensuring resilience and specialty disciplines are integrated throughout system development, and supporting credible verification of strategic weapon systems. We lead efforts in systems engineering, system security engineering, test and integration, digital engineering, nuclear command and control, and reliability engineering. We are seeking a Strategic Systems Program Protection Analyst to join our amazing team. Join a team of motivated and creative research engineers who bring both operational experience and technical ability. We provide vital systems engineering, cyber security engineering, and specialty engineering supporting the development of nationally important strategic deterrence capabilities for the Navy and Air Force. As a member of our team, you will work with systems engineers in development of program protection efforts, leveraging threat intelligence, for several critical strategic systems development programs. We are passionate about making critical contributions to these critically important programs, and you will be a key part of our success. You will contribute to a variety of complicated projects and have a direct impact on meaningful innovations for our country. With your help, we will remain at the forefront of systems engineering for the Strategic Deterrence Mission Area in the Force Projection Sector.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in System Security Analysis or closely related field, or equivalent years of relevant experience, along with at least 5 years of experience supporting Intelligence or Program Protection.
Strong background in working in or with the intelligence community, agencies, and other partners.
Strong background in working in or with the cyber operations community, agencies and other partners.
Strong background in data analysis using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Strong background in statistical analysis and data management.
Strong background in experimental methods.
Especially strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as strong critical thinking skills.
Shown the ability to interact effectively with and lead teams, including industry and government sponsors.
Willing and able to travel periodically to government, contractor, and/or other agency sites up to 25% of the time.
Hold an active Top Secret security clearance and can ultimately obtain TS/SCI level clearance.
Subject to a government clearance investigation which requires you to meet the requirements for access to classified information.
Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in System Security Analysis, Social Sciences, Psychology or a related social/behavioral science/area studies with at least 10 years of relevant experience relevant to Intelligence/Program Protection.
Experience with Line, project or program leadership experience.
Experience with Qualitiative or quantitative analysis.
Experience with Command & Control of the Information Environment (C2IE) and/or Integrated Joint Special Technical Operations (IJSTO).
Experience with Trident II Strategic Weapons Systems SLBM, Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS), Minuteman ICBM Systems and/or Sentinel ICBM Systems, GBSD, NC3 modernization, other strategic deterrence efforts, or and/or relevant DoD organizations.
Prior knowledge of Strategic Systems Program organization and processes, Air Force Nuclear Weapon Center organization and processes, and/or Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition experience.
Prior knowledge of Strategic Deterrence mission organizations and processes at the operational level, U.S. Strategic Command and/or Pentagon service headquarters.
Understanding and/or experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Digital Engineering (DE).
Demonstrated ability to set direction and implement plans to achieve goals and build capabilities including the pursuit of new initiatives and ability to engage sponsors.
Active TS/SCI clearance.

Responsibilities

Provide threat intelligence application and program protection expertise to the sustainment and recapitalization of U.S. Nuclear Triad and Strategic Deterrent Systems with emphasis on application of threat intelligence to the protection of development programs, or conduct of program protection efforts.
Work with a growing team of researchers, including systems engineering, test and evaluation, physics, cognitive science, social sciences, and cyber security who creatively apply security analysis, data science, behavioral research, and experimental methodologies to research and develop program protection activities, strategic deterrence initiatives, and acquisition/development strategy.
Provide technical leadership and direction pertaining applied behavioral science focused in areas such as development and analysis of program protection efforts including development of measures for analysis of effectiveness with tools and methods to enable effectiveness predictions across multi-domain activities.
Assure execution of tasks, and quality and timeliness of technical products through the application of best applied behavioral science practices.
Engage existing and potential new sponsors to define and develop new opportunities where the group can leverage its experience in support of new programs with critical challenges.
Research, investigate, and experiment with existing innovative technologies and look for creative new uses of software technologies to demonstrate system concepts that can be used by sponsors to identify and validate novel operational concepts.
Contribute to technical efforts and support program objectives focused on enabling strategic deterrence objectives.