Start Date: Immediate
JHNA, CTSi, and EXPANSIA have come together to form a Defense Technology platform named Aether Aerospace focused on delivering high-impact technologies, technology-enabled services and advanced manufacturing solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense and related national security customers. Backed by Falfurrias Management Partners, the platform brings together deep domain expertise across Army, Navy, and Air Force and Space Force programs, digital engineering, systems integration, and specialized manufacturing capabilities.
The combined organization operates as a multi-entity aerospace and defense technology and tech-enabled services and manufacturing enterprise positioned for scalable growth, operational excellence, and long-term value creation.
OVERVIEW
Full-time/Permanent Employee
Location: Arlington, VA
Aether Aerospace is seeking Industrial Security Specialists as a part of a Bid & Proposal effort.
Industrial Security Specialists provide support to the customer in establishing security requirements for OCONUS Maintenance Repair Overhaul & Update (MRO&U), Depot, and Supply Warehouse facilities for assigned operations.
Aether Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
Develop, mature, and support security and program protection architectures for new programs across the entire spectrum of classification, including the ability to facilitate intelligence requests to obtain state of-the-world, rest-of-the-world, or state-of-the-art technology/capability status. In developing a new program, the Senior P2/TSFD SME must be able to analyze the program, national policy, existing, related programs (as applicable), National Disclosure Policies, and intelligently craft a security classification architecture for the program that facilitates the secure execution throughout the program's lifecycle with minimal impact to cost, schedule, and performance criteria.
- Assess the acquisition strategy, RFP structure, and program documentation for international exportability considerations before they become irreversible constraints.
- Conduct a structured review of program office acquisition artifacts, including the RFP, draft System Requirements Documents (SRD), draft Acquisition Strategy, and emerging program protection documentation – to identify provisions constraining or enabling future partner nation access to program capabilities and SDA data.
- Develop prioritized, actionable recommendations for modifications to program acquisition documents to advance program exportability, including proposed contract language, requirement modifications, and security classification guidance.
- Evaluate national disclosure policy and assess impacts to acquisition document requirements, classification handling, data rights provisions, and FMS case structure.
- Identify program decisions, contract data requirements, and RFP provisions where equities must be addressed to enable a future international collaboration construct.
- Define and evaluate candidate international collaboration frameworks, including FMS, data-as-a-service via FMS, and multilateral government-to-government data sharing.
- Develop a recommended collaboration framework identifying preferred pathway(s) for partner access to program capabilities and data, with explicit linkage to the acquisition document changes required to execute it.
- Map key stakeholders and identify coordination gaps and unresolved equities, distinguishing between those resolvable within the current acquisition cycle and those requiring longer-lead policy or treaty-level coordination.
- Develop an integrated, timeline-based exportability roadmap anchored to program acquisition milestones, sequencing acquisition document changes and framework execution decision points across internal and external stakeholders.
- Provide classified senior leader briefings with an accompanying CUI-releasable summary.
Clearance: Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance
Education and Years of Experience: 12 years of experience minimum in Program Protection
There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, geographic location, education, and certifications.