Security Manager - Development Planning IDO

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Credence has an immediate need for a Security Manager - Development Planning at the senior who will be primarily responsible for supporting The Integrated Development Office (IDO) is responsible for defining and overseeing early systems acquisition prototyping, experimentation, and mission engineering; executing enterprise-focused and integrated early systems engineering and systems acquisition.

• Apply knowledge of program protection, technology control, system security engineering, and related DoD Instructions (DoDIs) and Air Force Instructions (AFIs) to provide technical security services supporting the development, acquisition, and sustainment of weapon systems, subsystems, and associated support systems
• Assist with integrating information security, industrial security, personnel security, COMSEC, resource protection, force protection, and anti-terrorism requirements into early program activities
• Support all aspects of acquisition program security throughout the program life cycle
• Support program protection planning by defining methods and actions needed to protect weapon systems throughout their life cycles and integrating flexible, cost-effective, threat-based security processes, plans, and procedures from Pre-Milestone A through the final program phases
• Develop acquisition program security practices and policies addressing acquisition, physical, personnel, documentation, information, industry, and communications security; plan and implement security-related surveys, assessments, and studies
• Develop and update security classification/declassification guides, system security management plans, Program Protection Plans (PPPs), security risk analyses, OPSEC plans, security vulnerability and countermeasures analyses, security CONOPS, program security directives, technology assessment and control plans, and other system security engineering documents required by applicable military standards and DoD/Air Force guidance
• Prepare acquisition security sections of program documentation and incorporate security requirements into statements of work, statements of objectives, requests for proposals, Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) items, and development planning project contracts
• Assist development planning teams with designing cost-effective approaches for integrating security requirements into development planning and weapon system task orders
• Identify critical program information, resources, and systems; recommend protection measures; and evaluate procedures for handling Critical Program Information, Systems, and Resources (CPI/S/R) and classified material up to Top Secret/SAP/SCI for incorporation into program protection documentation
• Integrate U.S. export and technology control laws, DoD and Air Force policy and instructions, and other applicable guidance into Program Protection Plans
• Analyze procedures for handling, controlling, storing, and disposing of classified or critical weapon system…