Program Manager

McBride has an exciting opportunity for a Program Manager providing support to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC/HBD), Theater Battle Control Division. The Theater Battle Control Division manages efforts focused on developing, acquiring, fielding and sustaining programs that support worldwide communications, Battle Management, Command & Control, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C2

ISR), Tactical Air Control, Air/Ground Surveillance, Time Critical Targeting, Combat Identification, Radar Imagery, Integrated Air/Missile Defense, and Mobile/Fixed C2

ISR Performance, Exploitation & Dissemination Facilities.

This is a full‑time position located at Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA.

• Support cost and schedule reduction activities for acquisition and development efforts.
• Provide program level acquisition support to the Program Manager and Integrated Product Team Leads by helping guide successful program execution to maintain the acquisition battle rhythm and deliver warfighter capability.
• Provide support and solutions to program leadership to facilitate successful contract execution for the program and analyse overall program health, advising program leadership on options to maintain cost, schedule and performance objectives.
• Support and develop various briefings/schedules of program status and acquisition tasks to senior management.
• Provide expert Program Management inputs to Request for Proposal (RFPs) including systems specs, Electronic Warfare Systems (SRDs), Statement of Work (SOWs), and Contract Data Requirements List (CDRLs), and other RFP products.
• Review acquisition documents and provide comments with programmatic perspective to ensure consistency and accuracy. Documents may include, but are not limited to, ADMs, LCSP, Acquisition Strategies, APBs, Risk Management Plans, PMRs and milestone decision briefings.
• Support, prepare, review and develop acquisition reports, including statutory and regulatory acquisition report and milestone review documentation identified in DoDI 5000.02.
• Support implementation and execution of acquisition and development effort processes in concert with Government and weapon system prime contractors.
• Provide non‑technical acquisition program management to include guidance and expertise necessary to apply principles, criteria, and procedures of DoD Directive 5000.1, DoDI 5000.02, NSSAP 03‑02, and other DoD, AF, AFMC, and AFLCMC instructions, directives, regulations, and guidance documents as applicable.
• Outline policy disconnects, policy interpretation, and management of all acquisition efforts.
• Advise the PM on best practice PM principles to achieve substantial process improvements, efficiencies, and potential cost avoidance.
• Assist with planning, evaluating and implementing program acquisition strategies. This includes DoD and AF policy and/or guidance, technical approach and/or requirements, risk assessment, and realism in achieving a product suitable for the warfighter within cost, schedule, and performance constraints.
• Support and coordinate with program level scheduling personnel.
• Develop, maintain, and update program risk management plans IAW the Risk Management Guide for DoD Acquisition, AFPAM 63‑128, and the Air Force RI3 Guidebook; facilitate program risk identification, risk analysis, risk handling and risk monitoring; assist with execution of program risk management boards, risk management working groups, and document meeting minutes; includes analyzing prime and sub‑contractor risk management processes.
• Assist with development, maintenance, and update of acquisition reports such as the Monthly Activity Reports (MAR), Source Approval Request (SAR), Defense Acquisition Executive Summary (DAES), Acquisition Program Baseline (APB), and supplemental reports as required by DoD policy for ACAT I, ACAT II, and ACAT III programs and IAW DoDI 5000.02, AFI 63‑‑101, and AFPAM 63‑128.
• Provide direct support in preparing and submitting funding documents (e.g., Purchase Request, MIPR, Purchase Orders, etc.). Requires familiarity with financial systems such as Comprehensive Cost and Requirement’s System (CCaR).
• Assist with preparation of briefings,…