Position Description & Qualifications

Serco is excited to continue our support to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Office. This contract provides program management support in support of the full acquisition lifecycle of the F-35 program, to include development, production, and sustainment.

Our Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program Analyst, located in Crystal City, Arlington, VA, supports the F-35 JPO Future Capability & Technology (FCAT) Directorate in its mission in achieving Kill-Chain dominance through Intelligence, robust Operational Analysis (OA), requirements integration and analysis, and Research and Technology exploration, for all elements of the F-35 Air System. Our Program Analyst supports FCAT in leading, identifying, maturing, informing, and transitioning capability candidate nominations and integration planning for insertion into the F-35 Air System Program of Record (PoR), to and on behalf of the U.S. Services and International Partner countries.

Our Program Analysts review and evaluate business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs. Familiar with relational database concepts, and client-server concepts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complicated tasks. May lead and direct the work of others. May report directly to a project lead or manager. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

This position is contingent upon your ability to maintain/transfer an active DoD Secret security clearance.

In this role, you will:

• Intelligence - Assist FCAT in providing all intelligence support required across the three Intel pillars of Threat, Intel Supportability Analysis (SA), and Intel Disclosure/Release by supporting every aspect of the program. Assist FCAT in serving as the designated liaison between the Program and the Services and Intel community; providing constantly updated current and forecast threat information to stakeholders to drive requirements and engineering analysis.
• Assist FCAT in ensuring all intelligence equities involved with fielding and exporting F-35 (e.g., intelligence mission data) are defined, engineered, and sustained.
• Air System Requirements Assessment, Development, and Approval in collaboration with External Stakeholders. Assist FCAT in managing the Pre-PoR F-35 Air System Requirements and in creating, maintaining, and promulgating a comprehensive Roadmap to inform the PMOs of risks and opportunities for the F-35 Program.
• Assist FCAT in developing the F-35 Flight Plan which provides an integrated strategy for F-35 capabilities focusing on Participant's future requirements over the next five to ten years and ensuring warfighter capability need dates are being clearly communicated to the PoR activities within the JPO. Assist FCAT in maturing and recommending for approval all new F-35 requirements, developing the Flight Plan and New Capabilities Decision Memoranda.
• Research and Technology (R&T) - assist FCAT in researching and assisting in development of technology through discovery, sponsorship, candidate studies and analysis, maturation, prototyping, experimentation, demonstration, and transition for relevant technology solutions for consideration and prioritization to transition into the F-35 PoR.
• Strategic Acquisition and Transition Planning (SATP) - assist FCAT in developing strategy for incorporating capability requirements defined by the Air Systems Requirements (ASR) team and technology developed by the R&T team into an acquisition program that is ready to be incorporated into the PoR and transitioned to the PMOs for execution.
• Program Strategy - assist FCAT in integrating research and emerging policy in National Defense Strategy, global geo-political domains, warfighting tactics, operations, kill chain, applied technology domain, global business, and market practices into F-35 JPO Program Strategy as well as in providing effective coaching and maintains strategic dialogue with JPO and external stakeholders.
• Governance Structure - assist FCAT in leading Requirements Working Group (RWG), Operational Advisory Group (OAG), Senior Warfighter Group (SWG), JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) Executive Steering Board (JESB) and in assisting with Configuration Steering Board (CSB) and requirements portion of the U.S. Executive Steering Group.
• Transfer requirements from the FCAT to the PoR - assist FCAT in providing applicable acquisition documentation and planning materials to the PMOs for execution, in collaboration with the PMOs.

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• An active DoD Secret security clearance.
• The ability to provide onsite support at the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) at Crystal City, VA a minimum of 2 days per week, each week. Onsite days in the JPO office may increase to provide onsite support up to 5 days per week to support the needs of the customer. Exact days in office at the JPO must be coordinated with F-35 customer and approved by your Serco manager.
• A Bachelor's degree in related fields
  • OR an Associates degree and 4 years of additional work experience (total of 10 years of work experience).
• A minimum of 3 years out of 6 years of recent work experience related to international acquisition programs.
• Familiarity with DoD Instruction (DoDI) 5000.2, DoD Directive (DODD) 5530.03 (International Agreements), and the International Cooperation in Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (IC in AT&L) Handbook.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the principles, policies, and practices of system acquisition to plan, organize, and coordinate critical aspects of the development, production, deployment, and sustainment of systems, subsystems, and equipment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Security Assistance/Security Cooperation (SA/SC) programs to include the understanding of the FMS sales process from case development, implementation, execution, to closure in accordance with the Security Assistance Management Manual (SAMM), DoD 5105.38-MX.
• The ability to travel up to 10%.

Additional Desired Skill:

• Microsoft Office to include: Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Excel (more advanced understanding than the basics), Word, and PowerPoint.
• ETMS2 (task management tool) experience.
• Military aviation experience, either in cockpit or in maintenance, to provide operational insights to FMS teams.
• Support FMS country teams in capability briefs and explaining Air System requirements to FMS customers. Assist in the coordination and delivery of information and capabilities briefing for the program reviews and presentations for current and future FMS countries.
• Advocate for and represent FMS equities in F-35 governance structure process.
• Coordinate the specific country requests for information with the appropriate JPO government or support contractor personnel.
• Assist in coordinating technical expertise for Country program reviews, inspections, conferences, and other program evaluations and events.
• Understanding of Department of War acquisition and security cooperation/FMS processes.

If you are interested in supporting and working with our military and sailors and a passionate Serco team- then submit your application now for immediate consideration. It only takes a few minutes and could change your career!