Program Security Officer

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars.

The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) is responsible for developing flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industry’s leading signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and cyber experts. Metrea specializes in signal classification, direction finding, advanced geolocation techniques, and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD applications. Metrea also develops special purpose radios for government customers and licenses DF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs.

The Program Security Officer (PSO) protects sensitive programs, personnel, capabilities, and operations by identifying security and counterintelligence risks and developing practical measures to mitigate them. The PSO works directly with operational teams, program leadership, security personnel, vendors, and other internal and external partners to integrate security into the planning and execution of current and future Files. This role requires a strong understanding of counterintelligence, operational security, threat assessment, investigations, and security risk management.

The PSO must be able to evaluate incomplete or ambiguous information, identify vulnerabilities before they become problems, and provide practical recommendations that protect sensitive activities without unnecessarily limiting operational effectiveness.

• Conduct counterintelligence, program security, and operational risk assessments supporting sensitive and advanced operations, including threats involving personnel, vendors, facilities, technologies, information, and infrastructure
• Integrate counterintelligence, OPSEC, and security considerations into operational planning and advise File leadership on risk, mitigation measures, and acceptable operational exposure
• Develop, implement, and refine program security SOPs, TTPs, security plans, and protective measures for current and future Files
• Assess vendors, partners, and supporting organizations for foreign intelligence, insider, cyber-enabled, unauthorized disclosure, and other…