Program Manager, Journeyman

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Program Manager, Journeyman

Airborne Battle Management Command and Control capabilities are essential to providing U.S. and allied forces the situational awareness, command and control, and operational coordination required across joint, coalition, humanitarian, and homeland defense missions. Sumaria Systems is seeking a Program Manager to support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Division at Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts.

The AWACS Division has Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) responsibility for delivering airborne Battle Management Command & Control (BMC2) capabilities. The Division is modernizing legacy mission systems, replacing aging computer architectures, integrating multi-sensor data fusion, improving global expeditionary readiness and availability, supporting the planned divestiture of the E-3 platform, and helping shape follow-on airborne command and control capabilities.

The ideal candidate is an experienced acquisition and program management professional who understands Department of Defense acquisition processes and can operate effectively across Government, engineering, contracting, financial management, logistics, and industry organizations. This position requires the ability to assess program health, manage competing priorities, identify risk, and provide leadership with clear, actionable recommendations focused on cost, schedule, performance, and mission outcomes.

In this role, you will provide acquisition and program management support to Government Program Managers, Integrated Product Team (IPT) Leads, Division leadership, and other program stakeholders. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide program-level acquisition support to Government Program Managers and IPT Leads to promote disciplined program execution and delivery of warfighter capabilities.
• Advise program leadership on overall program health, acquisition execution, and options for maintaining cost, schedule, and performance objectives.
• Interpret, coordinate, and execute acquisition project assignments and identify issues that could significantly affect acquisition, development, modernization, or sustainment efforts.
• Evaluate program direction, plans, schedules, and activities for alignment and consistency across Government and industry stakeholders.
• Monitor program integration activities and interface-control efforts across systems and organizations.
• Assist with planning, evaluating, and implementing acquisition strategies using applicable traditional, Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA), Urgent Capability, and other authorized acquisition pathways.
• Interpret and apply DoD and Air Force acquisition policies, directives, instructions, and guidance to program execution.
• Identify policy or process disconnects and provide recommendations to Government program leadership.
• Monitor acquisition reform and policy changes and assess potential impacts to assigned programs.
• Provide program management input to Requests for Proposal (RFPs), Statements of Work (SOWs), System Requirements Documents (SRDs), Contract Data Requirements Lists (CDRLs), evaluation criteria, and related acquisition documentation.
• Support development of source-selection strategies and provide authorized administrative and evaluation support during source-selection activities.
• Review and track prime contractor deliverables, schedules, contractual requirements, and performance.
• Assist with development of contractual correspondence addressing program management and execution issues.
• Develop, prepare, coordinate, and review acquisition reports, statutory documentation, and decision-support products supporting milestone decisions and program oversight.
• Prepare senior-leadership briefings, graphics, schedules, program metrics, and status updates.
• Maintain and support recurring program documentation, including Monthly Acquisition Reports (MARs), Acquisition Program Baselines (APBs), Defense Acquisition Executive Summary (DAES) inputs, Selected Acquisition Reports (SARs), and supplemental acquisition reports as applicable.
• Utilize DoD-mandated and specialized program systems to support acquisition reporting, documentation, and execution.
• Develop, maintain, and execute program risk-management processes and support identification, analysis, handling, monitoring, and reporting of program risks.
• Facilitate risk-management boards and working groups and track resulting decisions and actions through…