# Program Manager - Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) / Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) **Company**: GDIT **Location**: Sterling, VA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $162,037 - $219,227 **Category**: Defence & Intelligence **Apply**: https://gdit.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/USA-VA-Sterling/Senior-Program-Manager_RQ232090?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/program-manager-unmanned-aerial-systems-uas-4012cd5f-a93/ ## Description GDIT is seeking a Program Manager - Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) / Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) to lead the delivery of enterprise-scale capabilities that protect personnel, facilities, and operations. The Program Manager will integrate strategy, governance, acquisition support, systems engineering, operations, training, sustainment, compliance, and stakeholder engagement into a unified program that supports mission objectives. **Responsibilities:** - Develop and execute multi-year program strategies, capability roadmaps, implementation plans, and performance metrics aligned to mission priorities. - Advise Government leadership on investments, resource requirements, risks, and opportunities to expand and optimize UAS/CUAS capabilities. - Lead an integrated program management structure that aligns technical, operational, acquisition, logistics, security, training, and financial activities. - Establish effective governance, executive reporting, risk management, integrated scheduling, and performance tracking processes. - Direct the full lifecycle delivery of UAS and CUAS initiatives, including development requirements, market research, testing, fielding, operations, sustainment, and continuous improvement. - Advance organizational capability maturity through assessments, gap analysis, workforce planning, process development, and operational integration. - Develop and maintain concepts of operations, standard operating procedures, deployment plans, readiness criteria, lifecycle management processes, and configuration controls. - Manage concurrent efforts across multiple stakeholders and locations while maintaining alignment to cost, schedule, performance, security, and mission objectives. - Lead change management, communications, and knowledge transfer activities that support durable mission outcomes. - Support evaluation, selection, integration, and sustainment of UAS/CUAS sensors, command-and-control systems, communications, effectors, data services, and supporting infrastructure. - Apply expertise across leading UAS/CUAS hardware, software, integration, and service providers to inform technology decisions. - Establish requirements traceability, technical evaluation criteria, interoperability objectives, acceptance standards, and modernization roadmaps. - Coordinate demonstrations, pilots, operational assessments, testing activities, technical interchange meetings, and after-action reviews. - Manage subcontractor and OEM relationships, including performance, integration dependencies, licensing, sustainment, and supply-chain considerations. - Develop scalable operational models supporting fixed-site, mobile, expeditionary, and event-driven mission requirements, as authorized by the Government. - Establish readiness reporting, maintenance planning, configuration management, asset accountability, technical documentation, and sustainment processes. - Develop training, qualifications, exercise, and proficiency programs for operators, maintainers, analysts, and program personnel. - Implement operational reporting, lessons learned, incident response, and continuous improvement processes to enhance mission effectiveness. - Plan and oversee long-term sustainment and operational support across geographically dispersed locations. - Ensure compliance with applicable federal laws, policies, aviation and spectrum requirements, cybersecurity controls, privacy considerations, records management obligations, export controls, and authorities governing CUAS operations. - Collaborate with legal, policy, security, acquisition, intelligence, aviation, cybersecurity, spectrum, facilities, and operational stakeholders to resolve constraints and support program execution. - Integrate cybersecurity, supply-chain risk management, physical security, operational security, system assurance, and safety practices throughout the program lifecycle. - Lead risk management, contingency planning, audit support, corrective actions, and executive-level risk communication. - Manage program financial performance, staffing, resource allocation, subcontractor oversight, forecasting, and execution against established baselines. - Support acquisition activities, including market research, technical requirements development, statements of work, evaluation criteria, cost inputs, source selection support, and post-award oversight. - Recruit, develop, and lead multidisciplinary teams spanning program management, operations, engineering, cybersecurity, logistics, training, integration, and field support. - Foster a culture of accountability, safety, compliance, collaboration, innovation, and mission excellence. **Requirements:** - Bachelor’s degree in engineering, aviation, computer science, cybersecurity, systems engineering, business, program management, or a related discipline required; master’s degree preferred. - 12+ years of progressively responsible program leadership experience supporting complex federal technology, security, aviation, defense, or mission operations programs. - 5+ years leading UAS, CUAS, airspace security, or closely related programs, including demonstrated experience maturing at least one program, office, branch, or enterprise capability from initial concept through sustained operations. - Demonstrated success advising and supporting a large federal department or agency as it matured UAS / CUAS capabilities, governance, workforce, policy, technology, and operational processes. - Experience leading multidisciplinary, multi-contractor teams; geographically dispersed operations; complex stakeholder environments; and concurrent technical and operational workstreams. - Working knowledge of UAS / CUAS architectures, sensors, command-and-control, integration, communications, data, testing, deployment, training, logistics, and lifecycle sustainment. - Project Management Professional (PMP) required or must be obtained within an employer-defined period. - Current, in-scope investigation allowing ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance. **Benefits:** - Medical plan options - Dental plan options - Vision plan - 401(k) plan - Paid time off plans - Short and long-term disability benefits - Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Accountability - Program Leadership - Strategic Planning - UAS - CUAS - cybersecurity - aviation - systems engineering - project management ### Nice to have - open architecture - multi-vendor integration - technology insertion - test and evaluation - transition from pilot to sustained operations --- Source: [Apply at gdit.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://gdit.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/USA-VA-Sterling/Senior-Program-Manager_RQ232090?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)