Program Manager

Senior TSA Program Manager

The incumbent serves as the senior TSA program manager and subject matter expert for TSA activities conducted at the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC) Improvised Explosives Detection and Synthesis Center, (TIEDS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Leads development and execution of the TIEDS Center annual planning calendar for TSA and participating organizations.
• Establishes project priorities, sequences work, identifies resource needs, tracks milestones and risks, and resolves scheduling conflicts.
• Ensures test, evaluation, training, demonstration, research, and critical-response activities are appropriately planned, integrated, supported, and aligned with TSA mission priorities.
• Serves as the Transportation Security Administration's principal liaison with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Federal Protective Service, national laboratories, and other federal partners.
• Chairs or participates in management forums, working groups, executive briefings, and recurring coordination meetings.
• Develops recommendations, communicates program status, resolves cross-organizational issues, and sustains partnerships supporting transportation-security capabilities.
• Provides programmatic oversight of TSA test areas, laboratories, and associated screening technology used for authorized test, evaluation, demonstration, training, and research activities.
• Coordinates equipment deployment, commissioning, acceptance, movement, calibration, preventive maintenance, removal, and logistics support.
• Ensures facilities and equipment are properly configured, available, maintained, and documented to support approved activities.
• Manages the Test Article Program and related technical-support activities, including planning, coordination, accountability, issuance, maintenance, and availability of authorized materials and test-support equipment.
• Advises leadership on equipment capabilities, maintenance requirements, operational limitations, and resource alternatives.
• Establishes reporting approaches that enable accurate collection, management, and communication of test and system-performance data.
• Develops, implements, and updates standard operating procedures and program practices governing test-area and laboratory operations, information protection, access control, classified-material handling, safety, and equipment accountability.
• Interprets applicable requirements and identifies process gaps, risks, vulnerabilities, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Recommends corrective actions and monitors implementation to improve program effectiveness and compliance.
• Represents TSA in authorized interagency threat-informed discussions and collaborative activities supporting detection and mitigation capabilities across transportation modes.
• Analyzes program metrics, emerging needs, and stakeholder inputs to identify capability gaps and recommend priorities.
• Supports approved visits, demonstrations, tours, and senior-level engagements while protecting sensitive information and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships.