Principal Security Services Support F-16 WAM (Secret) - 209

About the role

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This position supports the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center WAM (AFLCMC/WAM) directorate, F-16 division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH. The F-16 "Viper" program is headquartered at Hill Air Force Base with units at Wright-Patterson, Tyndall, Eglin, and Davis-Monthan Air Force Bases. The multi-role fighter jet delivers air-to-air, air-to-ground, and surveillance capabilities for the USAF and Coalition Partners. The program manages the largest Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program in U.S. history — over 4,500 jets for 24 countries — with FMS production orders through 2030. It also includes the Multi-National Fighter Program (MNFP), a cooperative USAF development program under a Memorandum of Understanding with Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal.

Responsibilities

• Provide a wide range of security management, analytical, technical, and support services for programs managed by DoD, USAF, AFMC, AFLCMC, AFLCMC/WA, AFLCMC/WAM, and specific programs
• Serve as customer focal point for security; analyze security procedures; coordinate and recommend solutions on security deficiencies with the assigned government security task lead
• Support implementation of information, personnel, and industrial security programs to ensure classified material is protected per DoD, USAF, AFMC, AFLCMC, directorate, division, and program directives
• Assist in conducting implementation of resource protection, force protection, and anti-terrorism programs IAW DoD, USAF, AFMC, AFLCMC, directorate, division, and program security policy/instructions
• Assist personnel with completing personnel security investigation paperwork; review packages for accuracy; assist with tracking personnel security clearances
• Assist in developing security requirements into contractual commitments; administratively assist with coordination of DD Form 254, DoD Contract Security Classification Specification
• Manage and administer administrative duties of a Special Access Program Facility (SAPF) per DoD 5207.05 Vols 1-4, Security Access Program Nomination Process (SAPNP), and RMF/DoD Joint Special Access Program (SAP) Implementation Guide (JSIG) or current guidance — including submitting Program Access Requests (PARs), gaining/maintaining accreditation, and managing the self-inspection program
• Maintain, account for, and destroy Communications Security (COMSEC) material
• Conduct technical evaluations of Automated Information Systems (AIS) and other electronic equipment with electronic storage capability or that processes classified data, including Special Access Required (SAR) information
• Evaluate AIS Standard Practice Procedures (SPPs)
• Manage and perform administrative duties of a special access program — submitting PARs, gaining/maintaining accreditation, managing the self-inspection program
• Maintain an appropriately classified computerized database of Government and DoD personnel with access to SAR programs as identified by individual task orders
• Perform administrative tasks to support security functions; apply strong analytical writing skills to document program security methods and decisions
• Support end-of-day safety and security checks for assigned facilities per AFI 31-401 AFMCSUP and AFI 31-601 AFMCSUPI, including Visitor Group Security Agreement (VGSA) compliance
• Open and secure/alarm various SPO secure rooms and vaults at beginning and end of each duty day (including hours after 1800); respond during non-duty hours to alarms if USG personnel are unavailable
• Develop and document recommended program protection and system security input for SOOs, SOWs, PWS, RFPs, and CDRLs for assigned programs
• Identify security issues and recommend changes to DoD, USAF, AFMC, AFLCMC, WA Directorate, WAM Division, and program security policy/instructions for government security lead consideration
• Conduct analyses of procedures for handling, controlling, storage, and disposition of classified or critical weapon system hardware, including installed components; develop program-specific System Security Requirements
• Act as security advisor to the SSWG or other security-related IPTs for preparation of program security standards, including meeting minutes and action documentation
• Assist with transition of DoD and Air Force policy to "design to" and "test to" specifications, and SSE requirements into functional requirements
• Assist with system security assessments to ensure proper front-end emphasis on system security management
• Provide advisory and draft documentation assistance for development of a System Security Concept of Operation (SSCO) based on threat definition, vulnerability analyses, and existing security systems/measures — including mission tasks, operational system specifications, security resource requirements, threat environment, protection of CPI, employment issues, and labor costs
• Plan, design, review, analyze, and report on tailored security plans for protection of systems during test and evaluation; recommend changes to security test procedures
• Review program threats and conduct vulnerability analyses to define security functional requirements for effectively securing systems against overt and covert ground-initiated attack; recommend integration of physical security countermeasures, electronic and mechanical detection devices on the weapon system, and other corrective actions
• Review conceptual studies, program reports, system data, and other pertinent source documentation to establish basic system security requirements
• Continuously analyze adequacy of weapon system, system security planning, and physical security standards; report on discrete areas of concern
• Support integration of flexible, cost-effective, threat-based security processes, plans, and procedures to protect weapon system(s) during its lifecycle (DoD acquisition process pre-Milestone A through demilitarization)
• Support integration of U.S. export and technology control laws, DoD/Air Force policy and instructions, and other applicable guidance into program protection planning
• Identify CPI and conduct criticality analysis for assigned programs; assess program threats, analyze system vulnerabilities, and recommend alternative cost-effective security countermeasures meeting security objectives within overall system design and program strategy
• Assist the engineering functional; provide expertise about the Authority to Operate (ATO) process to support protection of CPI and staff associated documents through appropriate channels to the executive agent for final approval of plans
• Provide advisory assistance in evaluating security and administrative procedures for handling CPI/Critical Components (CC) from unclassified material up to and including Top Secret (TS), Special Access, and Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence (SCI)
• Aid in creation and maintenance of an OPSEC program/plan for protection of Critical Information (CI); recommend compliance to government security lead
• Assess, monitor, and review trade studies balancing program security risks with costs; assist with designing cost-effective approaches for integrating security requirements into weapon system contracts
• Develop and maintain time-phased, event-driven SCGs, Program Security Directives (PSDs), Technology Assessment and Control Plans (TA/CPs), and PPPs with associated annexes as required
• Analyze adequacy of weapon system prime and/or subcontractor program protection planning/efforts; report on discrete areas of concern
• Conduct technical evaluations of AIS and other electronic equipment with electronic storage capability or that processes classified data, including SAR information; evaluate AIS SPPs; report on system vulnerabilities, associated security risk, and compliance with DoD, Air Force, and local regulatory requirements
• Assist with on-site security evaluations at program offices; review weapon system prime security survey reports; evaluate security procedures/operations; provide technical security recommendations to the review team lead
• Perform CONUS travel in support of SPO security requirements; conduct OCONUS security site surveys and secure storage evaluations of FMS customer installations and facilities; provide guidance to meet NISPOM and DoD 5200.01 Vol 3 requirements for DTSA certification
• Support test and analysis of systems in classified program areas up to and including TS, special access, and SCI facilities; recommend corrective action; analyze system vulnerabilities, possible tampering, and intruder capability to compromise the system (e.g., bypass)
• Assist the program office by applying experience and expertise to analysis of broad system security issues common across all AFLCMC programs
• Perform administrative tasks necessary to support security operational functions
• Provide security-related technical assistance to AFLCMC/WAM organizations, groups, and committees for briefings and conferences

Requirements

• Active or current Secret