Program Manager & Operations Integration Lead Security Clearance

Position: Program Manager & Operations Integration Lead with Security Clearance
Overview Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter . Come work with the best!

We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA:
Objective. Responsive. Trusted. The Space and Intelligence Division provides professional services to the US Space Force, Combatant Commands, Intelligence Community, and NASA. Our work includes enterprise architectural assessments, systems engineering and integration, test, planning and execution, cost estimating and analysis, acquisition support, and cybersecurity. We are trusted partners developing approaches and concepts to meet emerging high priority needs, assessing cutting-edge technologies, and supporting capabilities for our National Defense.

Come join the fastest growing Division at Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. The Strategic Technology Analysis Group, part of SPA's Space and Intelligence Division, offers sophisticated capabilities (people, process & tools) to resolve unique problems in space, cyber, and special operations in support to military services, Secretary of Defense offices (OSD) and theater warfighters. Our portfolio includes the Assistant Secretary of Air Force for Space Acquisition & Integration (SAF/SQ), Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC), Space Security and Defense Program (SSDP), National Space Defense Center (NSDC), Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC), Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO), US Space Command (USSPACECOM) and US Space Force (USSF).

Come be a part of a high-speed low-drag organization providing unique and tailored solutions for our National Defense! SPA has an immediate need for a Program Manager & Operations Integration Lead. Responsibilities The successful candidate will support the USSF to conduct test campaigns across space mission areas to satisfy Operational Test & Evaluation requirements and validate system performance and tactics, techniques, and procedures.

This will include supporting a foundational simulation environment with integrated third-party models and simulations, such as blue models from program offices and intel-validated red models. You will support the High-End Advanced, Test, Training, and Tactics Development (HEAT3) effort under USSF System Delta (SYD) 81. In all activities, the candidate will work closely with internal and external teams to drive effective collaboration and deliver a superior solution.

The key duties associated with this position include, but are not limited, to the following:
* Provide technical program management, providing the primary interfacing and representation between SPA personnel located across all sites. Activities include:
* Provide primary interfacing and representation between SPA personnel at all sites and the client Program Manager, including status, blockers, upcoming activities, and cross-site coordination.
* Attend all scheduled Technical Exchange Meetings and other forums in support of HEAT3 execution.
* Assist client in user story selection and review, including the active management of requirements traceability, prioritization decisions, and acceptance criteria validation.
* Provide and regularly update internal-use program management products such as stakeholder registry and risk registry.
* Coordinate with internal SPA leadership, teaming partners, and client to identify, capture, and resolve programmatic risks and issues at the earliest possible point.
* Support documentation, configuration management, and version control of all PM artifacts produced under this Task.
* Support security staff in coordinating Co-Usage Agreements (CUA) and Joint-Usage Agreements (JUA) as early as possible after award, and get team members set up with the appropriate accounts to support classified deployments remotely, wherever possible, as well as Colorado Springs SCIF/SAPF use between SSC/BMC3I and SYD 81.
* Oversee remote engineering support as well as domain expertise support with personnel possessing domain expertise in space systems modeling and simulation, space test and training, the Joint Simulation Environment (JSE), and other relevant areas to provide general technical support.
* Oversee embedded subject matter expert (SME) and "super-user" support to the 3 TES customer site to enable delivery of the 3 TES test environment capability and successful execution of the associated Weapon System Evaluation Program (WSEP) and tactics validation campaign(s). Certain tasks may be completed by remote support personnel in coordination with client.
* Oversee embedded JSE SME and "super-user" support to enable client's delivery of space effects into the JSE at JITTC-N in support of the Long-Range Kill…