Description

Program Manager - Intelligence Support

Location: Fort Meade, MD

Clearance Required: Current Top Secret/SCI (TS/SCI)

Leidos is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead a large, diverse team supporting critical Counterintelligence (CI), Counterterrorism (CT), and HUMINT missions at Fort Meade.

This role oversees a broad intelligence support scope, including analytical operations, cyber and forensics support, technology protection, and advanced computer science functions that directly enable national-level investigations and mission success.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 100+ personnel across multiple locations, ensuring seamless support to CI, CT, and HUMINT mission partners.
• Oversee intelligence, analytical, cyber, forensics, technology protection, and computer science functions supporting investigative and operational requirements.
• Manage all aspects of program performance, including cost, schedule, risk, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with customer expectations and mission priorities.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with government customers, mission partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure effective utilization of system resources, production schedules, and workflow processes.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate program risks while driving continuous improvement across operations.
• Coordinate solutions to production-related challenges, ensuring timely and accurate resolution.
• Provide executive-level reporting, briefings, and decision support to senior leadership.

Required Certification

• Project Management Professional (PMP) - Active and current.

Education Requirements

Option 1:

• Bachelor’s degree in Intelligence, Business, or related field
• 14+ years of relevant and combined management experience, with at least 2 years occurring within the last 2 years

Option 2:

• Master’s degree in Intelligence, Business, or related field
• 12+ years of relevant and combined management experience, with at least 2 years occurring within the last 2 years

Experience Requirements

• Proven experience managing large programs (100+ personnel) across multiple geographic locations and mission areas.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the Department of Defense or Intelligence Community, performing program or project management for complex, multi-disciplinary efforts.
• Strong background in coordinating mission support across CI, CT, HUMINT, cyber, and analytical domains.

Preferred Experience/ Education:

• Prior work as an intelligence analyst within the DoD or IC
• HUMINT collection experience
• Counterintelligence investigations or operations experience
• Graduate of an intelligence analysis course
• HUMINT collection course graduate
• Counterintelligence Special Agent credentials

Why Join Leidos?

This is a high-impact leadership role supporting some of the nation’s most sensitive and mission-critical intelligence operations. You will shape program strategy, guide a talented workforce, and directly influence national security outcomes

If 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.

Original Posting:
March 30, 2026

For 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.

Pay Range:
Pay Range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.