Senior Naval Program Analyst – Strategy & Acquisition

Adams-Communication-; Naval Air Station Patuxent River (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision coverage

Life insurance, AD&D, disability

401(k) Program

Wellness programs

Paid Time Off

11 Paid Holidays

Employee referral program

Employee assistance program

Job summary

ACET seeks a senior Program/Project/Management Analyst designated as Key Personnel to drive strategic program analysis for the F/A-18 variants program at NAS Patuxent River.

In this high-visibility role, you will advise leadership, synthesize budgets and schedules, govern data management, and support readiness and lifecycle sustainability of naval aviation systems.

Candidates should have 10+ years in program analysis or defense acquisition and a DoD security clearance.

Qualifications

• Must possess or be able to obtain a DoD Secret Security Clearance to access airfield and military installation.
• Master of Arts (MA) or Master of Science (MS) degree from an accredited institution.
• Over 10 years of progressive experience in program analysis, defense acquisition, or project management performing the functional duties described above.
• Elite analytical and predictive modeling capabilities, mastery of project management suites (e.g., MS Project, advanced Excel), and exceptional technical writing skills suitable for senior leadership review.

Responsibilities

• Apply advanced qualitative and quantitative analytic techniques to evaluate high-level program/project objectives, identifying critical-path constraints and delivering actionable mitigation strategies.
• Critique and synthesize cross-functional requirements, execution statuses, budgets, and master schedules to provide comprehensive risk assessments to program leadership.
• Lead complex management, technical, or business case analyses to support structural program decisions, trade-off studies, and long-range acquisition strategies.
• Direct the collection, integration, organization, and translation of vast datasets spanning aircraft, weapons, project acquisition, and product sustainment programs.
• Enforce and optimize government-instituted processes for configuration change control management, official milestone documentation, and technical data management lifecycles.
• Establish tracking frameworks for overarching program milestones and schedules, authoring executive summaries and technical reports for senior military and civilian stakeholders.

Skills

Advanced analytics

Project management

MS Project

Excel advanced

Technical writing

Education

MA/MS degree

Tools

MS Project

Job description

ACET seeks a senior Program/Project/Management Analyst designated as Key Personnel to drive strategic program analysis for the F/A-18 variants program at NAS Patuxent River.

In this high-visibility role, you will advise leadership, synthesize budgets and schedules, govern data management, and support readiness and lifecycle sustainability of naval aviation systems.

Candidates should have 10+ years in program analysis or defense acquisition and a DoD security clearance.