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General Dynamics Information Technology

Builds and runs technology for government agencies

Program Security Representative

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/16/2026
$94.5k - $127.9k
Senior, Expert
Bachelor's, Associate's
Dayton, OH, USA
In Person
CybersecuritySecurity Governance, Risk & Compliance
No H1B Sponsorship
US Citizenship, US Top Secret Clearance Required

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 8 years of related experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Special Access Program experience is required.
  • A bachelor's degree in a related area, or an associate's degree in a related area plus 2 years of experience, or equivalent experience of 4 years.
  • Security Fundamentals Professional Certification counts toward 3 years of experience; Special Program Security Certification counts toward 5 years of experience, with a maximum of 5 years' equivalent experience from SPED certifications.
  • A Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance is required to start, and the ability to attain a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance with a counterintelligence polygraph is required.
  • U.S. citizenship is required.
  • Skills in facility security, physical security, and system security.
Responsibilities
  • Provide multidisciplinary security support for one or more customer Special Access Programs, including day-to-day multidisciplinary analysis for collateral, Sensitive Compartmented Information, and Special Access Program activities.
  • Ensure strict adherence to the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual, its Supplement, the DoD Overprint, DCID, ICD, and Special Access Program policy.
  • Assist in developing and executing approved policies and procedures for safeguarding Special Access Program, Sensitive Compartmented Information, and collateral data in support of U.S. military operations.
  • Provide day-to-day security support, continuously assess procedures to identify shortfalls, and recommend improvements to security policies, procedures, and systems.
  • Identify vulnerabilities, threats, and risks to test, training, and operational activities.
  • Assist in developing, implementing, and training the Operations Security program.
  • Assist with contractor and subordinate facility assistance and oversight.
  • Brief government and senior civilian personnel on security-related topics.
  • Conduct and document Special Access Program facility compliance reviews, follow-on facility reviews, and facility close-outs.
  • Monitor, report, and track corrective actions resulting from compliance reviews.
  • Ensure timely notification of pertinent security matters to program technical and management staff.
  • Investigate loss, compromise, or suspected compromise of classified or sensitive information, including conducting preliminary inquiries and generating damage assessments.
  • Coordinate with Special Access Program security personnel to incorporate lessons learned into the Special Access Program security education and awareness curriculum.

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GDIT builds and runs technology systems for U.S. government agencies, including defense, intelligence and civilian organizations. Its work spans cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and software development, with tools tailored to sensitive missions and large agency operations. The company combines its own reusable technology solutions with commercial products, then earns revenue through contracts to design, integrate, modernize and operate customer systems, including support for both classified and unclassified networks. It also supplies technical expertise and daily operational support, and is a business unit of General Dynamics headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.

Company Size

10,001+

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N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Falls Church, Virginia

Founded

1999

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  • Skills investment reaches employees: GDIT reported nearly 2,300 certifications earned by Louisiana staff in August 2026.
  • Career moves receive dedicated support: GDIT's internal mobility team helps employees find opportunities across the company.
  • Network work expands: GDIT's August 2026 Army National Guard award covers operations centers and cybersecurity.

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  • Award duration depends on renewals: GDIT's August 2026 Guard contract has one base year and six annual options.
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  • Remote flexibility excludes this opening: GDIT's Herndon software engineer role requires onsite work and a polygraph clearance.

What makes General Dynamics Information Technology unique

  • Security upgrades preserve existing systems: GDIT launched modular Everest Flex for government networks in September 2026.
  • Classified collaboration is a specialty: GDIT builds Space Force's Enigma network linking government and industry partners.
  • AI integration gains a direct partner: GDIT joined OpenAI's Select Partner network in September 2026.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Wellness Program

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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Federal News Network
Oct 13th, 2026
What high-performing agencies do differently with data.

What high-performing agencies do differently with data. Jennifer Chronis, the vice president of US public sector sales at Snowflake, said trusting your data is key in the battle against fraud, waste and abuse. October 13, 2026 10:06 am As agencies deal with a shrinking workforce and limited budgets, the focus on driving more efficiency is more important than ever. To achieve that efficiency, it's clear agencies need trusted data, solid governance and integrated systems. All of these depend on a cloud infrastructure that can support data sharing and address the challenges of working across new and legacy IT systems. On top of the efficiency drive, agencies are under intense pressure to further strengthen efforts to combat fraud, waste and abuse. The use of artificial intelligence and open data standards are key to improving the drive for efficiencies. Jennifer Chronis, the vice president of US public sector sales at Snowflake, said to achieve most, if not all, of these goals, agencies must be able to see across all of their datasets, especially when it comes to managing and mitigating risks to programs. "It's also important for them to be able to move from just reactive detection of fraud, waste and abuse to proactive detection of fraud, waste and abuse, and we're doing that with several customers," Chronis said on the discussion Innovation in Government sponsored by Carahsoft. "We're doing some work with a large federal health and human services organization. They process more than a trillion payments annually, and for them, it's been historically difficult to discover fraud, waste and abuse in all of those payments simply because of the siloed data systems that they're dealing with. Snowflake has partnered with GDIT for several years now to help this organization discover fraud, waste and abuse by modernizing their data platform. We worked with them to modernize over 16 petabytes of data. We've been able to cut data query times for them by more than 50 percent, so it's really, really exciting work." Trusted data leads to better analytics. One big difference about the work Snowflake does for this large federal health and human services organization, or any other customer, is the advancements in the technology that make the integration and manipulation of data much more straight forward and secure. Chronis said assigning roles and responsibilities to employees is an important part of creating trust in the information that can lead to confidence in the results of the analysis. "Customers have to be able to share data without moving it, without copying it and, in some cases, without even having to transform it. So that just makes the ability for a customer to have confidence in their data, much, much stronger because of the simplicity with which we can allow those customers to share it," she said. The ability to share and have confidence in the data becomes even more important in battle against fraud, waste and abuse. The Trump administration has made the detecting and stopping of fraud a top priority for every agency. Chronis said what is different about the White House's initiative is the power of artificial intelligence used with trusted data to discover patterns and obtain insights more quickly than ever. "There used to be a lot of long involved processes to move data into systems in order to be able to detect the anomalies and prevent the fraud. Once you have a solid data foundation, you can implement all of the various AI capabilities that have been changing so rapidly over the last even six months," she said. "We can use that data in, what we like to say, that semantic layer of the data. That is super important because applying AI models just sort of randomly on open internet data is not going to get you a lot of insights. 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Open standards and open architectures really give governments the flexibility to adopt new technology like AI and analytics, as their requirements evolve, without having to incur as much expense as they would have if they had been using proprietary standards and architecture." While the administration has emphasized the battle against fraud, waste and abuse, Chronis said data and AI tools also can drive success in other mission and back-office functions. Chronis said natural language AI agents are valuable for developing applications to address specific mission areas without the employee having any expertise in programming. "Natural language AI agents allow customers to just ask questions of data and develop applications using plain old English," she said. "We've been able to develop demos for customers with large volumes of data that would have taken custom developers and large involved contracts months to pull demos together. We've been able to do those things in hours. One, in particular, for a customer recently, we did in about five hours with the basic demo capability with lots of human resources data. We used synthetic data, and it was something that would have taken them months previously. So we're really seeing customers want to try to do those things as quickly as possible, and helping them and enabling them along that journey is really important to us." Jason Miller is executive editor of Federal News Network and directs news coverage on the people, policy and programs of the federal government. Related Topics

Virginia Business
Oct 7th, 2026
General Dynamics names next CEO, as Novakovic becomes exec chairman.

General Dynamics names next CEO, as Novakovic becomes exec chairman. Danny Deep is president of defense and aerospace giant * General Dynamics' CEO since 2013, Phebe Novakovic to transition to executive chairman in 2027 * President Danny Deep to be Reston-based defense contractor's next CEO * Novakovic has been named one of Fortune's 100 Most Powerful Women in business Longtime General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic will transition to executive chairman on Jan. 1, 2027, as President Danny Deep becomes the Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor's next CEO, the Reston-based company announced Wednesday. Deep has been with General Dynamics for 25 years and became president in 2025, after serving as executive vice president of its global operations and combat systems divisions, and president of land systems. Novakovic, who has been CEO since 2013 and also holds the title of chairman, regularly ranks among Fortune's list of the world's 100 Most Powerful Women in business, coming in this year at No. 30. Ranked No. 318 on the Fortune Global 500 list in 2025 and No. 91 on Fortune's 2026 500 list, General Dynamics employs more than 100,000 people worldwide and reported $52.6 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue, up from $47.7 billion in 2024. "Danny is a highly skilled executive with rich operating experience. It has been a pleasure working closely with him and I am certain he will be an outstanding CEO," Novakovic said in a statement. "I very much look forward to our continuing collaboration." In December 2025, Deep was promoted to president of General Dynamics, after having served most recently as its executive vice president of global operations, a promotion he received in June 2025. Deep was appointed executive vice president of combat systems in April 2024. Deep called Novakovic, a former CIA officer who also served as special assistant to the secretary of defense, "an extraordinary leader for General Dynamics" in a statement Wednesday and added, "I am grateful for the close partnership we've shared and the opportunity to continue working together in the future." Under Novakovic's leadership, in 2019 General Dynamics won the Navy's largest-ever shipbuilding contract, worth up to $24.2 billion, to build nuclear-powered submarines, with Newport News Shipbuilding as a subcontractor. In 2020, she was named Virginia Business Person of the Year, chiefly because she led her company to financial success amid the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, when most businesses were posting significant losses. General Dynamics' successes continued, including with this year's federal contract wins. In March, General Dynamics' Electric Boat subsidiary won a $15.3 billion contract modification to continue building Columbia-class submarines. And in July, Electric Boat won $29.5 billion to build five more. Fewer women at the top Novakovic was one of Virginia's top-paid CEOs in 2025, as well as the highest-paid woman chief executive on this year's list. She ranked No. 5, with about $25.9 million in total compensation. With her departure, there also will be fewer women among Fortune 1000 companies' CEOs, especially in the defense sector. In Virginia, Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden, who was named the Falls Church Global Fortune 500 contractor's CEO in 2019, and Carey Smith, chair, president and CEO of Centreville-based Parsons since 2022, remain in the upper echelon of the sector. Accenture Chair and CEO Julie Sweet, who works between offices in Arlington County and Bethesda, Maryland, was ranked No. 4 on Fortune's list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in business in May, in addition to Warden and Novakovic. In October 2025, Toni Townes-Whitley stepped down as CEO of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) after two years in the post. She has been replaced by Jim Reagan, who was named the Fortune 500 contractor's permanent CEO in February. Last week, Amy Gilliland stepped down as president of General Dynamics Information Technology, the Falls Church subsidiary of General Dynamics, after leading the 26,000-employee unit since 2017. "On behalf of the board, we thank Phebe for her outstanding leadership and lasting contributions to General Dynamics," said Laura J. Schumacher, independent lead director. "Phebe has led with vision, integrity and a deep commitment to our people and our ethos. We have greatly benefitted from her efforts in setting a clear strategic vision, creating enduring value and in building a strong and capable leadership team."

The Business Journals
Oct 2nd, 2026
GDIT President Amy Gilliland out after nearly decade-long run.

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Defense One
Sep 24th, 2026
Defense Business Brief: Here comes the quantum boom; GDIT's perspective; and Sec. 889.

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Several focus on authentication, including a quantum position verification process that allows you to verify the position and time of a transaction, providing a physical receipt, Namazi told Defense One ahead of the Quantum World Congress event outside of Washington, D.C. That could unveil the true source of a phishing call that is pretending to be your bank, for example. Another example is quantum channel protection, where "entanglement networks can supplement post-quantum encryption to perfectly protect and monitor the communication networks to make sure no one is eavesdropping, no one is harvesting the data," he said. It also protects against redirecting traffic on the network. Qunnect counts In-Q-Tel, an investment firm focused on intelligence and national security needs, as one of its backers. Background: DARPA has previously explored entanglement networks through its Quantum Augmented Networks effort, but has recently become more vocal about it. Following a White House executive order, the Pentagon released its quantum strategy, which focuses on network modernization, such as integrating secure commercial products and using quantum-resistant devices. It also named 2030 as the deadline for all Pentagon systems to support post-quantum cryptography. That method of using entangled photons or particles, known as quantum entanglement, can also aid in precise time synchronization, which could be used for future telecommunications networks, including 6G. Precision would drill down to one trillionth of a second, "which you usually need for financial transactions, defensive systems - places that you really, really care about the security and the accuracy of your network," Namazi said. But there are challenges, particularly in making sure the technology is compatible with existing telecommunications infrastructure. "These are hardware-based technologies. So, as much as we build everything to be compatible with the telecommunications infrastructure - which they are - this still means that you do need to go and add devices to different locations," Namazi said. "And when it [comes] to devices that you use for your cybersecurity, you usually want them to be manufactured [domestically]...in very large quantities, in form factors that make sense. That's definitely still a challenge." You've reached the Defense Business Brief, where Defense One dig into what the Pentagon buys, who they're buying from, and why. Send along your tips, feedback, and song recommendations to [email protected]. Check out the Defense Business Brief archive here, and tell your friends to subscribe! Bigs v. littles: quantum edition. Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Amy Gilliland, president of GDIT, onstage at NDIA's Women in Defense conference. 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The Consulting Report
Sep 23rd, 2026
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