Program Manager
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID/Date as heading; can fold into short
. Must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Also remove application instructions (contact email, etc). Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key info: - Job ID: 9566 Date Posted: September 28, 2026 (metadata) - Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) is seeking applicants for a Program Manager to provide “Subject Matter Expertise” to the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Directorate in our C4ISR Systems Division. - The successful candidate will serve as an Ogden, UT-based Program Manager with primary responsibility for managing team tasking, coordinating technical activities, and interfacing with U.S. Air Force customers. - The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience with software development and integration, computer networking, hardware and/or cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity, along with experience supporting complex programs. - Candidates must possess sufficient technical knowledge in these areas to effectively lead and manage multidisciplinary technical teams, understand customer requirements, evaluate technical risks and priorities, and communicate effectively with both technical personnel and leadership. - The selected candidate will work as part of a larger integrated team of customers, software and systems engineers, cybersecurity and networking professionals, managers, technicians, and support personnel to ensure successful execution of program objectives. - The Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems Division delivers mission-critical solutions, specializing in cyber operations, information architecture, strategic deterrence, and ISR. Our division’s commitment to innovation and security enables us to provide critical solutions across defense, intelligence, and national security. Join our team and contribute to the next generation of defense technologies. Then "Key Responsibilities" bullet list: - Demonstrates an understanding of a customer’s needs and issues, usually by direct interface - Works with the customer to define project tasking and follows-through with project execution - Assembles and directs corporate resources toward execution of the contract - Identifies, tracks, avoids, and mitigates risks - Trades issues of scope, approach, cost, and schedule - Delivers the contracted result - Manages daily activities of an engineering support team Then "Required Qualifications": - Must have a bachelor’s degree - 5+ years of project management or technical leadership experience - Demonstrated supervisory experience - Proficiency in task management - Ability to organize and manage a team - Experience leading technical projects - Ability to work in a team-oriented environment while making direct contributions to team success - Strong verbal and written communication skills - Excellent computer skills - Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance Then "Preferred Qualifications": - 10+ years of project management experience - Bachelor’s or advanced degree in systems, software, data, or cyber engineering - Management and systems engineering experience with DoW/USAF - USAF Nuclear operations or enterprise experience - USAF weapons development and acquisition experience - Hold an active DOW TS Clearance Then salary: "*Salary Range $104,000 - $160,000 Salary commensurate on education and relevant experience This range serves as a general guideline and may vary based on factors such as role, level, location, market conditions, and individual qualifications, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The range displayed in the job advertisement reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries across all U.S. locations. Specific salary details for a candidate’s preferred location can be provided by the recruiter or HR manager during the hiring process." Then "Why Join SDL?" paragraph about benefits etc. It says "SDL offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. Visit our Benefits Page to learn more about what we offer." Then more about SDL mission etc. This is generic but includes benefits mention. However we should only include Benefits section if posting actually states them. It says "SDL offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. Visit our Benefits Page to learn more about what we offer." That's a statement about benefits but not specific details. The instruction: "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 the posting actually states them." The posting does state that SDL offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, and directs to Benefits Page. That is somewhat vague but still states there is a benefits package. However it's not specific details. The instruction says we should not create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does state that there is a comprehensive benefits package, but not details. Is that enough? Likely we should include a Benefits section with that statement (maybe as a
). But we need to avoid filler like "competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package" is not filler? It's somewhat generic but it's actual statement. I'd include Benefits section with that sentence. Pay: The posting includes salary range. So we should include Pay section with that info. However the instruction says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state salary range. So include Pay. Schedule: No mention of schedule (e.g., full-time, part-time, shift). Not present, so omit Schedule section. Now sections: About the role (maybe a summary). Responsibilities (list). Requirements (maybe combine Required Qualifications and maybe also include some of the earlier paragraphs about experience). Qualifications (maybe Preferred Qualifications). Skills (maybe combine communication skills, computer skills etc). But we need to avoid duplication. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine Required and Preferred Qualifications into a Qualifications section, with subheadings? But we only allowed headings
for section headings; we cannot have subheadings besides those. Could we include both Required and Preferred as separate under same Qualifications heading? Probably yes.
We also need Skills section: maybe include communication skills, computer skills, task management proficiency etc. But those are already in qualifications. Could combine.
Better to have sections: About the role (summary paragraph), Responsibilities (list), Qualifications (list of required and preferred), Skills (maybe communication and computer skills), Benefits (statement), Pay (salary range). Avoid thin sections.
Let's extract substantive content for About the role: The initial paragraphs describing role, location, responsibilities overview, division description. We'll combine into a paragraph.
Responsibilities: the bullet list.
Qualifications: combine required and preferred. Could separate required vs preferred but still under same heading? Might be okay to have two lists: Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications as subheadings? But we cannot use headings other than the allowed ones; we could still use for Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications? The instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It lists examples but not exclusive? It says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are the allowed headings. So we should not create other headings like "Required Qualifications". Instead we should put all qualifications under a single Qualifications heading, maybe with notes indicating required vs preferred within the list items. Could preface each item with "(Required)" or "(Preferred)". That preserves info.
Skills: we could pull out communication skills, computer skills, task management proficiency, ability to organize and manage a team, etc. But many are already in qualifications. Might be redundant. Perhaps we can omit Skills section and include those under Qualifications. But the instruction says we can include Skills section if there is real specific content. There is communication skills, excellent computer skills, proficiency in task management. Those are specific. Could make a Skills section with those.
Benefits: statement about competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package.
Pay: salary range.
Now we must not include boilerplate like "Visit our Benefits Page to learn more about what we offer." That's part of benefits statement; we can keep it.
We must not include application instructions like contact email, etc. Remove that.
We must not include EEO etc. Not present.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Structure:
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Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine.
Now craft About the role paragraph:
Combine: Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) is seeking applicants for a Program Manager to provide “Subject Matter Expertise” to the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Directorate in our C4ISR Systems Division. The successful candidate will serve as an Ogden, UT-based Program Manager with primary responsibility for managing team tasking, coordinating technical activities, and interfacing with U.S. Air Force customers. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience with software development and integration, computer networking, hardware and/or cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity, along with experience supporting complex programs. Candidates must possess sufficient technical knowledge in these areas to effectively lead and manage multidisciplinary technical teams, understand customer requirements, evaluate technical risks and priorities, and communicate effectively with both technical personnel and leadership. The selected candidate will work as part of a larger integrated team of customers, software and systems engineers, cybersecurity and networking professionals, managers, technicians, and support personnel to ensure successful execution of program objectives. The Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems Division delivers mission-critical solutions, specializing in cyber operations, information architecture, strategic deterrence, and ISR. Our division’s commitment to innovation and security enables us to provide critical solutions across defense, intelligence, and national security. Join our team and contribute to the next generation of defense technologies.
That's a long paragraph but okay.
Now Responsibilities list items as given.
Now Qualifications list: combine required and preferred. We'll mark each with (Required) or (Preferred) maybe.
Required:
- Must have a bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of project management or technical leadership experience
- Demonstrated supervisory experience
- Proficiency in task management
- Ability to organize and manage a team
- Experience leading technical projects
- Ability to work in a team-oriented environment while making direct contributions to team success
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent computer skills
- Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
Preferred:
- 10+ years of project management experience
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in systems, software, data, or cyber engineering
- Management and systems engineering experience with DoW/USAF
- USAF Nuclear operations or enterprise experience
- USAF weapons development and acquisition experience
- Hold an active DOW TS Clearance
We'll put them all in one list under Qualifications.
Now Skills section: maybe include communication skills, computer skills, proficiency in task management, ability to organize and manage a team, strong verbal and written communication skills, excellent computer skills. But those are already in qualifications. To avoid duplication, maybe we can omit Skills section. However the instruction says we can include Skills if there is real specific content. There is also "proficiency in task management" etc. But it's overlapping. I'd rather omit Skills to avoid thin sections. But we need to ensure we include all substantive info; if we omit Skills, we still have those items in Qualifications, so info preserved. So we can skip Skills.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay.
Now Benefits: "SDL
for Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications? The instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It lists examples but not exclusive? It says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are the allowed headings. So we should not create other headings like "Required Qualifications". Instead we should put all qualifications under a single Qualifications heading, maybe with notes indicating required vs preferred within the list items. Could preface each item with "(Required)" or "(Preferred)". That preserves info.
Skills: we could pull out communication skills, computer skills, task management proficiency, ability to organize and manage a team, etc. But many are already in qualifications. Might be redundant. Perhaps we can omit Skills section and include those under Qualifications. But the instruction says we can include Skills section if there is real specific content. There is communication skills, excellent computer skills, proficiency in task management. Those are specific. Could make a Skills section with those.
Benefits: statement about competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package.
Pay: salary range.
Now we must not include boilerplate like "Visit our Benefits Page to learn more about what we offer." That's part of benefits statement; we can keep it.
We must not include application instructions like contact email, etc. Remove that.
We must not include EEO etc. Not present.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are the allowed headings. So we should not create other headings like "Required Qualifications". Instead we should put all qualifications under a single Qualifications heading, maybe with notes indicating required vs preferred within the list items. Could preface each item with "(Required)" or "(Preferred)". That preserves info.
Skills: we could pull out communication skills, computer skills, task management proficiency, ability to organize and manage a team, etc. But many are already in qualifications. Might be redundant. Perhaps we can omit Skills section and include those under Qualifications. But the instruction says we can include Skills section if there is real specific content. There is communication skills, excellent computer skills, proficiency in task management. Those are specific. Could make a Skills section with those.
Benefits: statement about competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package.
Pay: salary range.
Now we must not include boilerplate like "Visit our Benefits Page to learn more about what we offer." That's part of benefits statement; we can keep it.
We must not include application instructions like contact email, etc. Remove that.
We must not include EEO etc. Not present.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
... paragraph ...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Skills
- ... ...
Benefits
...
Pay
...
Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine. Now craft About the role paragraph: Combine: Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) is seeking applicants for a Program Manager to provide “Subject Matter Expertise” to the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Directorate in our C4ISR Systems Division. The successful candidate will serve as an Ogden, UT-based Program Manager with primary responsibility for managing team tasking, coordinating technical activities, and interfacing with U.S. Air Force customers. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience with software development and integration, computer networking, hardware and/or cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity, along with experience supporting complex programs. Candidates must possess sufficient technical knowledge in these areas to effectively lead and manage multidisciplinary technical teams, understand customer requirements, evaluate technical risks and priorities, and communicate effectively with both technical personnel and leadership. The selected candidate will work as part of a larger integrated team of customers, software and systems engineers, cybersecurity and networking professionals, managers, technicians, and support personnel to ensure successful execution of program objectives. The Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems Division delivers mission-critical solutions, specializing in cyber operations, information architecture, strategic deterrence, and ISR. Our division’s commitment to innovation and security enables us to provide critical solutions across defense, intelligence, and national security. Join our team and contribute to the next generation of defense technologies. That's a long paragraph but okay. Now Responsibilities list items as given. Now Qualifications list: combine required and preferred. We'll mark each with (Required) or (Preferred) maybe. Required: - Must have a bachelor’s degree - 5+ years of project management or technical leadership experience - Demonstrated supervisory experience - Proficiency in task management - Ability to organize and manage a team - Experience leading technical projects - Ability to work in a team-oriented environment while making direct contributions to team success - Strong verbal and written communication skills - Excellent computer skills - Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance Preferred: - 10+ years of project management experience - Bachelor’s or advanced degree in systems, software, data, or cyber engineering - Management and systems engineering experience with DoW/USAF - USAF Nuclear operations or enterprise experience - USAF weapons development and acquisition experience - Hold an active DOW TS Clearance We'll put them all in one list under Qualifications. Now Skills section: maybe include communication skills, computer skills, proficiency in task management, ability to organize and manage a team, strong verbal and written communication skills, excellent computer skills. But those are already in qualifications. To avoid duplication, maybe we can omit Skills section. However the instruction says we can include Skills if there is real specific content. There is also "proficiency in task management" etc. But it's overlapping. I'd rather omit Skills to avoid thin sections. But we need to ensure we include all substantive info; if we omit Skills, we still have those items in Qualifications, so info preserved. So we can skip Skills. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. Now Benefits: "SDL