Program Manager
About the job
- Must hold an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance with polygraph.
- Must have 15 years of experience, including relevant experience on a program or organization of comparable size and scope.
- Must have knowledge and experience with the Intelligence Community customer.
- Must hold a BS or MS degree.
- Must work daily at the customer site, side by side with the customer.
- Must have experience leading a team of managers who manage workforce teams.
- Must direct back-office teams, including contracts, security, finance, staffing, and human resources.
- Must effectively integrate with other task order teams and company program managers.
- Must engage directly with subcontractor workforce and leadership.
- Must build future leaders and provide career development opportunities for the workforce.
- Must develop unique and creative ways to engage the employee workforce.
- Provide strategic and tactical direction to employees and managers.
- Develop the workforce by providing career and learning opportunities.
- Create the strategy for hiring personnel with the experience needed to execute the mission.
- Ensure subcontractors can augment the skills and experience needed to execute the program and comply with workshare agreements and contractual elements.
- Communicate the program's strategic direction from execution through recompete.
- Report program status to executive leadership.
- Drive integration across the company to leverage best practices and technology on the program.
- Align program execution and growth with the overall company strategy.
- Interact daily with key customer team members, including the Contracting Officer, Contracting Officer's Technical Representative, and directorate-level leadership.
- Ensure all contractual obligations are met and program execution supports and improves the mission.
About the company
1) What VTG does: VTG provides defense and intelligence services with a focus on force modernization, digital transformation, aerospace and naval engineering, and cyber capabilities across a unified enterprise. 2) How its products work: It builds end-to-end capabilities by integrating specialized firms and services (engineering, IT, cyber, logistics) through acquisitions to deliver modernization and transformation for defense and intelligence customers. 3) How it differs from competitors: It operates as a single, cohesive organization after consolidating disparate units and growing through targeted acquisitions to expand its expertise in intelligence, cyber, and defense modernization rather than offering fragmented offerings. 4) What its goal is: To expand its footprint in the intelligence community and cyber domain while continuing defense modernization for government customers, supported by strategic growth and acquisitions.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Lenoir, North Carolina
Founded
1866
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- VTG's sixth 2025 acquisition, Miklos Systems, deepens Intelligence Community software and cloud.
- VTG won DoDIAC Pool 1 access in February 2025 for defense R&D.
- More than 35% of VTG business now comes from Intelligence Community solutions.
What critics are saying
- VTG's 2025 acquisition spree strains integration, systems, and culture across seven businesses.
- VTG relies on federal contracts; one NAVSEA protest or recompete hits revenue in 2026.
- Booz Allen and Leidos bundle similar IC services, threatening VTG's niche outright.
What makes VTG unique
- John Hassoun turned VTG into a defense roll-up spanning IC, cyber, and naval engineering.
- VTG won NAVSEA's five-year $130 million warfare systems engineering prime in May 2024.
- VTG bought Triaplex, Miklos, Byte, iota IT, Tunuva, Loki, and Clear Cloud.
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Benefits
- Hybrid Work Options
- Flexible Work Hours