ACQUISITION DEPUTY

STRATEGIC SYSTEMS PROGRAMS (SSP)Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbiausajobspublished 10/29/2026
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Your tasks

  • You will serve as the Deputy Principal Assistant Program Manager for Acquisition for the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) Program Management Office, providing principal-deputy support to the Principal Assistant Program Manager for Acquisition.
  • You will integrate and coordinate acquisition, contract-management/Contracting Officer’s Rep., budgets, engineering, and program-management activities to identify and resolve cost, schedule, technical, contractual, and financial-execution issues.
  • You will support development, maintenance, and execution of CPS acquisition strategies, acquisition plans, acquisition-review documentation, and associated programmatic products to ensure alignment with program requirements and available resources.
  • You will support planning, coordination, and oversight of CPS contracting activities, including procurement requests, proposal-planning, source-selection documentation, contract modifications, contractor performance, funding, and schedules.
  • You will prepare, integrate, justify, execute, and assess CPS budget and financial-management products.
  • You will analyze commitments, obligations, expenditures, execution plans, and program milestones; and recommend actions to address identified financial risks.
  • You will coordinate acquisition, contract-management, and budget-execution efforts across CPS functional areas.
  • You will integrate program requirements, synchronize activities, resolve cross-functional issues, and provide leadership with timely, accurate, decision-quality information.

Requirements

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NH-03 (GS-13) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Utilizing Navy and Department of War acquisition-management principles, including Department of Defense 5000-series requirements; analyzing cost, schedule, technical, contract, and financial data; or coordinating acquisition, contracting, and budget-execution activities to support the planning, execution, and documentation of acquisition programs. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: Program Management Series 0340 Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Other

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.