Weapons Systems Expert

Credence has an immediate opening for a Weapons Systems Expert in support of the Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapon Systems (CROWS) at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.

The Assistant Secretary of Air Force for Acquisition (SAF/AQ) and Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) stood up the Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapon Systems (CROWS) under Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) to be the dedicated office to increase cyber resiliency of Air Force (AF) weapon systems and to maintain mission effective capability under adverse conditions. 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.

Appraise and recommend the technical implementation of security design to ascertain security software, hardware, and firmware features affecting confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability, and non-repudiation implemented as documented in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53 (Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations) and/or Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI 8500.1 (Cybersecurity)).

Appraise and recommend 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.

Support assessment of the cyber posture of legacy and non-legacy systems and assisting in the determination of a prioritization strategy to fix existing and future cyber vulnerabilities.

Review existing and future cyber vulnerability assessments to identify targeted legacy/non-legacy systems and recommend mitigation strategies.

Support the identification of current and future cyber analyses to understand and classify the criticality, risk of occurrence, and feasibility of mitigation strategies for legacy/non-legacy systems.

Assist in the development of reports outlining the mitigation objectives and legacy/non-legacy system cyber resiliency strategy.

Provide support to review products that include the following technical evaluations/plans; engineering studies, reports, and analyses; acquisition strategies/plans; systems engineering tradeoff analysis; cybersecurity plans; security authorization package documentation Security Classification Guide (SCG); and other program/technical documents as they relate to cybersecurity, resiliency, and survivability of the weapon systems.

Support Systems Engineering Technical Reviews (SETR), including Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR) and Critical Design Reviews (CDR) development consultation and review.

Provide 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.

Provide consultation on cyber-related training.

Provide support to cybersecurity incident response efforts and/or teams as needed.

Clearance Top Secret or ability to obtain a Top Secret

Specialized Knowledge and Experience Required

• Possess an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)-accredited bachelor’s degree in aerospace, Systems Engineering, Electrical, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science discipline.
• Possess a Master of Science in Aerospace, Systems Engineering, or equivalent discipline.
• Have Department of Air Force weapon systems acquisition experience.
• Have DoD 8570.01-M Information Assurance Management (IAM) Level I. The Contractor shall have experience briefing senior leaders.
• May be required to lift 15 lbs.
• May be required to travel within the organizational geographic area of responsibility.