FAST Labs - A3 Program Manager I
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as a heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to parse the job description.
Key content:
- Intro about FAST Labs, description of role, responsibilities, etc.
- Key Aspects Of This Role: bullet points (some are sentences separated by periods). We need to treat as list of duties/responsibilities.
- Because of need for consistent in-person collaboration... This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time. (Schedule/Location info). This is schedule: full-time on site.
- Required Education, Experience, & Skills: bullet list.
- Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills: bullet list.
- Pay Information: Full-Time Salary Range: $132962 - $226035 plus note.
- Employee Benefits: description.
- About BAE Systems Electronic Systems: description of company.
- This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days... (maybe not needed; it's boilerplate/application instruction? It's about posting duration; could be considered boilerplate; we should remove application instructions. The instruction says remove application instructions. This line about posting duration maybe not needed. We'll drop.
We need to decide sections.
We have:
- About the role (intro description). Could be "About the role" heading.
- Responsibilities (Key Aspects Of This Role). Could be "Responsibilities".
- Requirements (Required Education, Experience, & Skills). Could be "Requirements".
- Qualifications (Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills). Could be "Qualifications" or "Preferred Qualifications". The instruction says use headings like Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can use "Qualifications" for preferred? Might be better to separate Required vs Preferred. But we only have headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can map:
- About the role: intro.
- Responsibilities: Key Aspects.
- Requirements: Required Education, Experience, & Skills.
- Qualifications: Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills.
- Skills: maybe we could extract skills from responsibilities? But we already have skills in required/preferred. Could combine? But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we can omit Skills section if not distinct. The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine skills into Responsibilities or Requirements. But we have separate headings allowed; we can decide to not include Skills if not needed.
- Benefits: Employee Benefits description.
- Pay: Pay Information.
- Schedule: The statement about full-time on site.
We need to ensure we don't create sections with placeholder text. All have real content.
Now we need to format lists.
For Responsibilities: we have bullet-like sentences:
"Accountable for all aspects of program initiation, planning and execution (cost, schedule, technical performance, quality, customer engagement, etc.) and ensuring program commitments are met."
"Responsible and accountable to the Business for program execution, profitability, timeliness, and overall success."
"Make decisions that are cost effective to the company and ensure assigned projects meet financial commitments and salients." (maybe "salients" is a typo but we keep.)
"Develop program/project plans specifying goals, staffing needs, schedule milestones, risks and contingency plans."
"Assist with managing customer (internal and external) and supplier relationships to maintain a high level of customer engagement and satisfaction."
"Foster a culture of innovative problem solving, performance excellence, and continuous improvement"
"Knowledge of life cycle management"
"Knowledge of defense contract types"
"Knowledge of Earned Value Management"
"Strong communication skills"
We can put each as
- .
For Requirements (Required Education, Experience, & Skills):
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 8 years of experience or Master's degree with 6 years of experience.
- Active DoW Top Secret clearance and ability to obtain DoW SCI and SAP Security clearances
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment that requires a high degree of initiative and adaptability
- Strong Interpersonal and Leadership Skills – demonstrated experience being successful leading cross-functional teams
- Skilled communicator who influences and shapes the behavior and performance of teams executing complex requirements
- Strong presentation skills
We'll list each as
- .
For Qualifications (Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills):
- RF, EW, and cyber knowledge and experience are a major plus
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field
- PMP certification
List.
Benefits: description paragraph(s). We'll put as
maybe multiple paragraphs.
Pay: Salary range and note.
Schedule: statement about full-time on site.
Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
FAST Labs innovates science, technology, and engineering breakthroughs for some of the toughest technology challenges in the defense, aerospace, power and propulsion, and security industries. This research and development (R&D) business, within BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems sector, collaborates with business areas across the company’s global enterprise to develop and implement advanced technology capabilities in the areas of advanced electronics, autonomy, cyber, electronic warfare, and sensors and processing. We are looking for a Program Manager for the A3 product line within FAST Labs. A3’s charter is to “convert data into action.” Our organization champions a culture of exploration and foundational research, focusing on signal processing and exploitation, AI-enabled technologies, non-kinetic effects development, and information “sensemaking.” This Program Manager will manage, coordinate, plan, organize, control, integrate, and execute one or more programs simultaneously. They will ensure achievement of financial, schedule, and technical performance objectives. They will support new business capture as part of proposal development teams. They will be expected to model and demonstrate strong leadership in ethics, safety and security. The selected candidate will support programs with employees based out of Merrimack, NH and Arlington, VA. This position requires a comprehensive interface with the Contracts, Subcontracts, Finance, Procurement, IT, and Security functions within the company as well as with internal and external customers to ensure that the portfolio’s financial, schedule and technical objectives are met and that the highest level of customer satisfaction is achieved. You will have a significant opportunity to work with leaders in these areas and in the technical business areas defining future technology transition.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for all aspects of program initiation, planning and execution (cost, schedule, technical performance, quality, customer engagement, etc.) and ensuring program commitments are met.
- Responsible and accountable to the Business for program execution, profitability, timeliness, and overall success.
- Make decisions that are cost effective to the company and ensure assigned projects meet financial commitments and salients.
- Develop program/project plans specifying goals, staffing needs, schedule milestones, risks and contingency plans.
- Assist with managing customer (internal and external) and supplier relationships to maintain a high level of customer engagement and satisfaction.
- Foster a culture of innovative problem solving, performance excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Knowledge of life cycle management.
- Knowledge of defense contract types.
- Knowledge of Earned Value Management.
- Strong communication skills.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 8 years of experience or Master's degree with 6 years of experience.
- Active DoW Top Secret clearance and ability to obtain DoW SCI and SAP Security clearances.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment that requires a high degree of initiative and adaptability.
- Strong Interpersonal and Leadership Skills – demonstrated experience being successful leading cross-functional teams.
- Skilled communicator who influences and shapes the behavior and performance of teams executing complex requirements.
- Strong presentation skills.
Qualifications
- RF, EW, and cyber knowledge and experience are a major plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
- PMP certification.
Benefits
At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
Pay
Full-Time Salary Range: $132,962 - $226,035. Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Schedule
Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.
We should ensure numbers formatted with commas for readability? The original had $132962 - $226035 without commas. We can keep as is or add commas; adding commas is not inventing info, just formatting; but might be considered altering? It's still same numeric value. Safer to keep exactly as original: $132962 - $226035. However adding commas is not altering meaning; but instruction says do not invent or summarize away detail. Adding commas is not inventing detail, just formatting. I'd keep original to be safe.
Thus Pay paragraph: "Full-Time Salary Range: $132962 - $226035. Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience."
Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days...". We omitted.
Check for duplicated lines: none
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as a heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to parse the job description. Key content: - Intro about FAST Labs, description of role, responsibilities, etc. - Key Aspects Of This Role: bullet points (some are sentences separated by periods). We need to treat as list of duties/responsibilities. - Because of need for consistent in-person collaboration... This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time. (Schedule/Location info). This is schedule: full-time on site. - Required Education, Experience, & Skills: bullet list. - Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills: bullet list. - Pay Information: Full-Time Salary Range: $132962 - $226035 plus note. - Employee Benefits: description. - About BAE Systems Electronic Systems: description of company. - This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days... (maybe not needed; it's boilerplate/application instruction? It's about posting duration; could be considered boilerplate; we should remove application instructions. The instruction says remove application instructions. This line about posting duration maybe not needed. We'll drop. We need to decide sections. We have: - About the role (intro description). Could be "About the role" heading. - Responsibilities (Key Aspects Of This Role). Could be "Responsibilities". - Requirements (Required Education, Experience, & Skills). Could be "Requirements". - Qualifications (Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills). Could be "Qualifications" or "Preferred Qualifications". The instruction says use headings like Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can use "Qualifications" for preferred? Might be better to separate Required vs Preferred. But we only have headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can map: - About the role: intro. - Responsibilities: Key Aspects. - Requirements: Required Education, Experience, & Skills. - Qualifications: Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills. - Skills: maybe we could extract skills from responsibilities? But we already have skills in required/preferred. Could combine? But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we can omit Skills section if not distinct. The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine skills into Responsibilities or Requirements. But we have separate headings allowed; we can decide to not include Skills if not needed. - Benefits: Employee Benefits description. - Pay: Pay Information. - Schedule: The statement about full-time on site. We need to ensure we don't create sections with placeholder text. All have real content. Now we need to format lists. For Responsibilities: we have bullet-like sentences: "Accountable for all aspects of program initiation, planning and execution (cost, schedule, technical performance, quality, customer engagement, etc.) and ensuring program commitments are met." "Responsible and accountable to the Business for program execution, profitability, timeliness, and overall success." "Make decisions that are cost effective to the company and ensure assigned projects meet financial commitments and salients." (maybe "salients" is a typo but we keep.) "Develop program/project plans specifying goals, staffing needs, schedule milestones, risks and contingency plans." "Assist with managing customer (internal and external) and supplier relationships to maintain a high level of customer engagement and satisfaction." "Foster a culture of innovative problem solving, performance excellence, and continuous improvement" "Knowledge of life cycle management" "Knowledge of defense contract types" "Knowledge of Earned Value Management" "Strong communication skills" We can put each as
maybe multiple paragraphs. Pay: Salary range and note. Schedule: statement about full-time on site. Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. We'll produce something like:
About the role
FAST Labs innovates science, technology, and engineering breakthroughs for some of the toughest technology challenges in the defense, aerospace, power and propulsion, and security industries. This research and development (R&D) business, within BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems sector, collaborates with business areas across the company’s global enterprise to develop and implement advanced technology capabilities in the areas of advanced electronics, autonomy, cyber, electronic warfare, and sensors and processing. We are looking for a Program Manager for the A3 product line within FAST Labs. A3’s charter is to “convert data into action.” Our organization champions a culture of exploration and foundational research, focusing on signal processing and exploitation, AI-enabled technologies, non-kinetic effects development, and information “sensemaking.” This Program Manager will manage, coordinate, plan, organize, control, integrate, and execute one or more programs simultaneously. They will ensure achievement of financial, schedule, and technical performance objectives. They will support new business capture as part of proposal development teams. They will be expected to model and demonstrate strong leadership in ethics, safety and security. The selected candidate will support programs with employees based out of Merrimack, NH and Arlington, VA. This position requires a comprehensive interface with the Contracts, Subcontracts, Finance, Procurement, IT, and Security functions within the company as well as with internal and external customers to ensure that the portfolio’s financial, schedule and technical objectives are met and that the highest level of customer satisfaction is achieved. You will have a significant opportunity to work with leaders in these areas and in the technical business areas defining future technology transition.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for all aspects of program initiation, planning and execution (cost, schedule, technical performance, quality, customer engagement, etc.) and ensuring program commitments are met.
- Responsible and accountable to the Business for program execution, profitability, timeliness, and overall success.
- Make decisions that are cost effective to the company and ensure assigned projects meet financial commitments and salients.
- Develop program/project plans specifying goals, staffing needs, schedule milestones, risks and contingency plans.
- Assist with managing customer (internal and external) and supplier relationships to maintain a high level of customer engagement and satisfaction.
- Foster a culture of innovative problem solving, performance excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Knowledge of life cycle management.
- Knowledge of defense contract types.
- Knowledge of Earned Value Management.
- Strong communication skills.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 8 years of experience or Master's degree with 6 years of experience.
- Active DoW Top Secret clearance and ability to obtain DoW SCI and SAP Security clearances.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment that requires a high degree of initiative and adaptability.
- Strong Interpersonal and Leadership Skills – demonstrated experience being successful leading cross-functional teams.
- Skilled communicator who influences and shapes the behavior and performance of teams executing complex requirements.
- Strong presentation skills.
Qualifications
- RF, EW, and cyber knowledge and experience are a major plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
- PMP certification.
Benefits
At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
Pay
Full-Time Salary Range: $132,962 - $226,035. Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Schedule
Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.
We should ensure numbers formatted with commas for readability? The original had $132962 - $226035 without commas. We can keep as is or add commas; adding commas is not inventing info, just formatting; but might be considered altering? It's still same numeric value. Safer to keep exactly as original: $132962 - $226035. However adding commas is not altering meaning; but instruction says do not invent or summarize away detail. Adding commas is not inventing detail, just formatting. I'd keep original to be safe. Thus Pay paragraph: "Full-Time Salary Range: $132962 - $226035. Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience." Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days...". We omitted. Check for duplicated lines: none