Senior Defense Program Manager – TASC & Industrial Base

ACT1 Federal; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Life and AD&D Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Health Savings Account (HSA)

401K with employer match

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Military Leave

Education, Training & Professional Dev

Job summary

ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager to lead and integrate TASC activities supporting defense production recovery, supplier capacity, industrial-base resilience, and senior-level decision making. The role requires 10+ years in program management, a Bachelor’s degree, and an Active Top Secret clearance.

You will lead cross-functional teams across production, finance, engineering, and acquisitions, coordinating with government and industry partners in a hybrid work

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in program management, acquisition, defense programs, production, operations, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex defense, acquisition, production, or industrial-base programs involving multiple organizations and senior stakeholders.
• Experience with integrated master schedules, program metrics, risk and issue management, action tracking, executive reporting, and cross-functional program execution.
• Active Top Secret Clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution and integration of TASC support across assigned PAE, weapon-system, supplier-capacity, and industrial-base priorities.
• Establish integrated priorities, work plans, milestones, owners, dependencies, and performance measures for TASC initiatives and recovery actions.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary SMEs in production, supply chain, acquisition, finance, data, engineering, and industrial-base analysis to develop executable courses of action.
• Identify cross-program dependencies, decision points, resource conflicts, schedule risks, and issues requiring Government leadership attention or escalation.
• Develop and maintain integrated execution plans, action trackers, decision calendars, risk registers, and performance measures for assigned TASC priorities.
• Track recovery actions, supplier interventions, investments, contracting actions, and production milestones; identify variance and drive timely resolution or escalation.
• Ensure TASC analyses and recommendations are supported by validated production, supplier, schedule, cost, technical, and acquisition information.
• Integrate risks, dependencies, funding, acquisition, technical, and industrial-base considerations into practical implementation strategies and leadership decisions.
• Lead working sessions, program reviews, site engagements, and follow-up actions with program offices, Navy commands, prime contractors, suppliers, and authorized stakeholders.
• Serve as the senior program-management integrator for TASC leadership and assigned PAE and weapon-system priorities.
• Integrate production, schedule, supplier, engineering, acquisition, financial, investment, and program information into executable courses of action.
• Coordinate actions across DASN DIB, PAEs, program offices, systems commands, contracting, engineering, logistics, financial management, production facilities, and industry stakeholders.
• Prepare executive program reviews, issue papers, decision briefings, integrated action plans, risk assessments, and recommendations for senior Government leadership.

Skills

Program management

Leadership

Risk management

Schedule management

Executive reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Job description

ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager to lead and integrate TASC activities supporting defense production recovery, supplier capacity, industrial-base resilience, and senior-level decision making. The role requires 10+ years in program management, a Bachelor’s degree, and an Active Top Secret clearance.

You will lead cross-functional teams across production, finance, engineering, and acquisitions, coordinating with government and industry partners in a hybrid work