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The role requires the ability to organize competing priorities, identify dependencies, and elevate issues with recommended solutions.\nPrimary Tasks:\nLead, manage, mentor, and develop a cross-functional team of 11 professionals supporting Air Force defensive cyber capability development, ensuring accountability, collaboration, and mission-focused execution.\nServe as the primary day-to-day coordination point for the Program Office’s Materiel Leader, government representatives, engineering teams, prime contractors, subcontractors, and industry partners to align priorities, clarify responsibilities, and establish execution expectations.\nOversee team assignments, engineering deliverables, milestones, resource commitments, and execution progress, identifying competing priorities, constraints, and concerns while recommending solutions to program leadership.\nProvide leadership with actionable recommendations on scheduling options, resource requirements, delivery tradeoffs, and execution priorities to support informed decision-making.\nLead the development and maintenance of the resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for IDCS and related defensive cyber activities, incorporating engineering activities, capability development, contractual milestones, technical dependencies, and decision points.\nEstablish and maintain reliable schedule baselines by integrating subordinate project schedules into a consolidated portfolio baseline, ensuring accurate dependencies, traceability, consistent planning practices, and accountability.\nApply critical path analysis, resource assessments, schedule performance measures, impact reviews, and what-if analyses to forecast outcomes, evaluate planning alternatives, identify risks, and recommend corrective actions based on planned versus actual performance.\nCoordinate the development and maintenance of milestone-based capability roadmaps with engineering, product, program management, and government stakeholders, ensuring achievable delivery timelines aligned with approved objectives, technical requirements, resource availability, operational priorities, and the IMS.\nIdentify cross-program dependencies, integration constraints, and critical decision points affecting near-term and long-range planning while preparing roadmap views and status products highlighting capability timelines, readiness, and key dependencies.\nMaintain configuration and version control of strategic planning artifacts, ensuring consistency and alignment across schedules, roadmaps, requirements, and delivery commitments.\nSupport requirements management, governance, and traceability by coordinating with requirements authorities, systems engineering, product teams, and developers to align approved priorities, requirements baselines, engineering activities, integrated schedules, roadmaps, and delivery milestones.\nIdentify requirements decomposition gaps, ambiguities, dependencies, and planning misalignments that create delivery risks while maintaining appropriate configuration management controls and incorporating critical decision points into planning and reporting.\nEstablish and maintain consistent processes for identifying, documenting, communicating, and tracking execution risks, issues, and dependencies across programs and stakeholders.\nEvaluate program performance, resource constraints, technical interdependencies, and delivery trends to identify emerging mission risks and recommend mitigation strategies, alternative sequencing, and resource allocation options.\nDevelop concise status assessments and practical performance indicators covering actual progress, forecasted milestones, team capacity, outstanding dependencies, and leadership decisions, supported by integrated schedule, requirements, resource, and capability analysis.\nFacilitate cross-functional planning discussions, milestone reviews, and coordination sessions to align organizations with competing priorities, technical dependencies, and varying execution maturity while establishing realistic commitments.\nCollaborate with stakeholders to resolve alignment challenges, clarify ownership, document decisions, and ensure accurate, timely, and actionable information is provided for portfolio reporting.\nEstablish and maintain consistent policies, procedures, operating rhythms, and best practices for scheduling, roadmap development, requirements alignment, baseline management, and cross-organizational reporting.\nIdentify operational inefficiencies, duplicative reporting, and unnecessary administrative burdens while recommending and implementing approved process improvements that strengthen transparency, accountability, and execution efficiency.\nPromote disciplined use of collaboration, scheduling, and work-management tools while driving measurable improvements through stakeholder feedback, lessons learned, continuous improvement, and mission-focused execution.\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Business Management, Program Management, or a related discipline with 12+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 10+ years of relevant experience. Additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.\nActive Secret clearance and ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI within 90 days.\nDemonstrated experience leading or coordinating a multidisciplinary technical team in defense, cybersecurity, engineering, or related programs.\nAbility to translate leadership priorities into executable plans and measurable objectives.\nHands-on experience developing or maintaining integrated master schedules, roadmaps, schedule baselines, and critical path analyses.\nKnowledge of requirements management, traceability, schedule dependencies, risk, and integrated execution.\nExperience coordinating government, prime contractor, subcontractor, and engineering stakeholders.\nProficiency with Microsoft Project, Project Server, Deltek Open Plan, or comparable scheduling tools.\nWorking knowledge of Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar enterprise tools.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize technical and schedule information for program stakeholders.\nAbility to organize competing priorities, exercise sound judgment, and resolve routine execution challenges in a fast-paced environment.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting Air Force cybersecurity programs, Air Force Cyber Command, or DoD Defensive Cyber Operations.\nExperience coordinating with a DoD Program Office, Materiel Leader, or acquisition and engineering stakeholders.\nUnderstanding of DoD acquisition, systems engineering lifecycle management, and capability development.\nExperience coordinating planning and delivery across engineering, development, and operational teams.\nFamiliarity with Agile methodologies and integration of iterative delivery into enterprise schedules.\nExperience improving requirements traceability, planning frameworks, governance, and performance reporting.\nAbility to prepare leadership-ready roadmaps, dashboards, risk summaries, and schedule forecasts.\nExperience facilitating planning sessions, technical reviews, and program status briefings.\nPerformance Expectations\nStrategic Alignment: Clear connections among government priorities, requirements, execution activities, and capability outcomes.\nProgram Visibility: Timely, accurate reporting across schedules, roadmaps, dependencies, risks, and commitments.\nExecution Predictability: Credible schedules, milestone performance, early constraint identification, and effective critical-path management.\nTeam Coordination: Clear task ownership, effective workload coordination, and follow-through on assigned deliverables.\nStakeholder Confidence: Trusted relationships grounded in transparency, responsiveness, technical credibility, and reliable delivery.\nContinuous Improvement: Measurable advances in planning maturity, requirements integration, execution efficiency, and decision support.\nPosition Impact\nThe Strategy Execution Lead plays an important role in connecting program priorities to organized, measurable execution across the IDCS mission.\nBy maintaining integrated plans, coordinating technical stakeholders, and tracking progress and risks, this role helps program leadership understand delivery status and make timely decisions.\nThe successful candidate will lead the assigned team, take ownership of day-to-day execution coordination, and escalate decisions or constraints beyond the team’s authority.\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nOctober 28, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\nPay Range:\nPay Range $105,300.00 - $190,350.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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