Labor Categories
Chief Information Security Officer (Series AH)
Responsible for determining enterprise information security standards. Develop and implements information security standards and procedures. Provide tactical information security advice and examining the ramifications of new technologies. Ensure that all information systems are functional and secure.
Communications Hardware Specialist (Series AI)
Analyze network and computer communications hardware characteristics and recommends equipment procurement, removals, and modifications. Add, delete, and modify, as required, host, terminal, and network devices. Assist and coordinate with communications network specialists in the area of communication software. Analyze and implement communications standards and protocols according to site requirements.
Communications Network Manager (Series AJ)
Evaluate communication hardware and software, troubleshoot local-, metropolitan-, and wide-area networks (LAN/MAN/WAN) and other network related problems; provide technical expertise for performance and configuration of networks. Perform general LAN/MAN/WAN administration; provide technical leadership in the integration and test of complex large-scale computer integrated networks. Schedule conversions and cutovers. Oversee network control center. Supervise maintenance of systems. Coordinate with all responsible users and sites. Supervise staff.
Communications Software Specialist (Series AK)
Analyze network and computer communications software characteristics and recommend software procurement, removals, and modifications. Add, delete, and modify as required, host, terminal, and network devices in light of discerned software needs/problems. Assist and coordinate with communications network specialists in the area of communications software.
Communications Specialist (Series AL)
Analyze network characteristics (e.g., traffic, connect time, transmission speeds, packet sizes, and throughput) and recommend procurement, removals, and modifications to network components. Design and optimize network topologies and site configurations. Plan installations, transitions, and cutovers of network components and capabilities. Coordinate requirements with users and suppliers.
Computer Data Librarian (Series AM)
Maintain library of media (tapes, diskettes, CD-ROMs, videos, CDs, cassettes) used to store record information or provide back-up for automatic data processing applications. Classify, catalog, and store items in accordance with standardized system. Issues media for processing on request. Maintain record of items received, stored, issued, and returned. Examine returned media for damage or excessive wear to determine if they need replacing.
Computer Scientist (Series AN)
Act as a senior consultant in complex or mission critical client requirements. Develop, modify, and apply computer modeling and programming applications to analyze and solve mathematical and scientific problems affecting system and program performance. Participate in all phases of scientific and engineering projects such as research, design, development, testing, modeling, simulating, training, and documentation.
Computer Security Systems Specialist (Series AO)
Level I (AO01)—Analyze and defines security requirements for Multilevel Security (MLS) issues. Design, develop, engineer, and implement solutions to MLS requirements. Gather and organize technical information about an organization's mission goals and needs, existing security products, and ongoing programs in the MLS arena. Perform risk analyses which also includes risk assessment.
Level II (AO02)—Analyze and defines security requirements for MLS issues. Design, develop, engineer, and implement solutions to MLS requirements. Guide effort to gather and organize technical information about an organization's mission goals and needs, existing security products, and ongoing programs in the MLS arena. Perform risk analyses which also includes risk assessment. Develop security standards.
Level III (AO03)—Design, develop, engineer, and implement solutions to MLS requirements. Perform complex risk analyses which also include risk assessment. Establish and satisfy information assurance and security requirements based upon the analysis of user, policy, regulatory, and resource demands. Support customers at the highest levels in the development and implementation of doctrine and policies. Apply know-how to government and commercial common user systems, as well as to dedicated special purpose systems requiring specialized security features and procedures. Perform analysis, design, and development of security features for system architectures.
Computer Systems Analyst (Series AP)
Level I (AP01)—Analyze information requirements. Evaluate analytically and systematically problems of workflow, organization, and planning and assists Senior Computer Systems Analyst and Computer Systems Analyst develop appropriate corrective action. Help develop plans for automated information systems from project inception to conclusion. Define the problem, and develop system requirements and program specifications, from which programmers prepare detailed flow charts, programs, and tests. Under the supervision of a Senior Computer Systems Analyst or a Computer Systems Analyst, coordinate closely with programmers to ensure proper implementation of program and system specifications. Develop, in conjunction with functional users, system alternative solutions.
Level II (AP02)—Analyze and develop computer software possessing a wide range of capabilities, including numerous engineering, business, and records management functions. Develop plans for automated information systems from project inception to conclusion. Analyze user interfaces, maintain hardware and software performance tuning, analyze workload and computer usage, maintain interfaces with outside systems, analyze downtimes, and analyze proposed system modifications, upgrades and new COTS. Analyze the problem and the information to be processed. Define the problem, and develops system requirements and program specifications, from which programmers prepare detailed flow charts, programs, and tests. Coordinate closely with programmers to ensure proper implementation of program and system specifications. Develop, in conjunction with functional users, system alternative solutions.
Level III (AP03)—Provide technical and administrative direction for personnel performing software development tasks, including the review of work products for correctness, adherence to the design concept and to user standards, and for progress in accordance with schedules. Coordinate with the Project and/or Program Manager to ensure problem solution and user satisfaction. Make recommendations, if needed, for approval of major systems installations. Prepare milestone status reports and deliveries/presentations on the system concept to colleagues, subordinates, and end user representatives. Provide daily supervision and direction to support staff.
Configuration Management Specialist (Series AQ)
Provide configuration management planning. Describe provisions for configuration identification, change control, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits. Regulate the change process so that only approved and validated changes are incorporated into product documents and related software.
Level I (AR01)—Perform functional economic analysis to evaluate the costs of alternative ways to accomplish functional objectives, analyze investment costs, benefits, and risks as a net change to the functional baseline cost, and the cost of doing business now and in the future, ensuring that cross-functional, security, and other integration issues are addressed. Commensurate education and training.
Level II (AR02)—Perform complex functional economic analysis to evaluate the costs of alternative ways to accomplish functional objectives, analyze investment costs, benefits, and risks as a net change to the functional baseline cost, and the cost of doing business now and in the future, ensuring that cross-functional, security, and other integration issues are addressed. Commensurate education and training.
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