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Position Summary
Credence has an immediate need for a Systems Acquisition Manager at the senior level who will be primarily responsible for supporting the Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapon Systems (CROWS) at Wright Patterson AFB, OH.
CROWS is organizationally located under AFLCMC/EN-EZ with mission responsibility for ‘baking in’ cyber resiliency into new weapon systems and mitigation of ‘critical’ vulnerabilities in fielded weapon systems.
CROWS is primarily located at two locations: Hanscom Air Force Base (AFB) and Wright-Patterson AFB. There are CROWS personnel located in various locations throughout the AF to provide cyber resiliency support. The major functional areas within CROWS are as follows:
CROWS Leadership
Acquisition Support to increase system security engineering principles into acquisition community
Manpower, Education and Training
Intelligence integration to increase cyber posture
Management of data reporting and tracking of cyber vulnerabilities and risks
Data capture, repository and analytics to enable risk-based decision making
Inquiry management and adjudication to respond to external inquiries on cyber posture
Gap analysis of cyber risks for a comprehensive understanding of risk
Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Projects
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below:
Appraising and recommending the technical implementation of the security design to ascertain security software, hardware, and firmware features affecting confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability, and non-repudiation;
Appraising and recommending designs and solutions to defend weapon systems and critical networks against malicious and non-malicious exploitation throughout the full acquisition life cycle of portfolio programs;
Supporting assessment of the cyber posture of systems and assist in the determination of a prioritization strategy to fix existing and future cyber vulnerabilities;
Reviewing existing and future cyber vulnerability assessments to identify targeted legacy systems and recommend mitigation strategies;
Supporting the identification of current and future cyber analyses to understand and classify the criticality, risk of occurrence, and feasibility of mitigation strategies for legacy systems;
Assisting in the development of repeatable tools/processes/expectations to create centers of excellence for SSE oversight;
Assisting in the development of reports outlining the mitigation objectives and system cyber resiliency strategy;
Providing support to review products that include the following: technical evaluations/plans; engineering studies, reports and analyses; acquisition plans; and other program/technical documents as they relate to cybersecurity, resiliency, and survivability of weapon systems;
Supporting the SETR process and documentation (i.e., PDR, CDR, etc.) development, consultation, and review;
Providing rapid response engineering service and support as augmentation to organic resources through in-depth problem identification, impact assessment, and development of corrective actions for critical supportability problems within the scope of CROWS.
Requirements
Must have an active or current Top Secret security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information…