Dignitas Technologies, a By Light company, offers a wide range of services in the military modeling, simulation, and training (MS&T) industry from research efforts advancing simulation technologies to large acquisition contracts. Dignitas specializes in system and software analysis, design, development, testing, fielding, and courseware for Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training applications.
By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.
Position OverviewDignitas, a By Light company, is seeking a strong and experienced Program Manager for a large multi-year single award IDIQ contract. The candidate for this position will report directly to the Senior Program Manager and act on his behalf as his Deputy in all Program Management functions to include: financial management, subcontractor management, schedule management, customer interface and internal team leadership.
Responsibilities- Assist mission partners and customers to assess their needs, provide information, resolve problems, and satisfy their requirements.
- Perform monthly status briefings.
- Lead a team to ensure program execution, including subcontractors.
- Be responsible for tracking and maintaining cost, schedule, and technical performance.
- Coordinate staffing, schedules, risks and opportunities, process improvement initiatives, and common execution metrics.
- Lead follow on proposal efforts.
- Bachelor’s degree in project management, business management or other related degrees.
- Must have at least 5-10 years of experience in project and resource management.
- DoD Contract Experience.
- Strong Financial Acumen.
- Proposal Experience.
- Strong Communication and Presentation Skills.
- Full Spectrum Leadership skills and experience leading diverse, distributed and virtual teams.
- Preferred PMP or DAWIA Advance certification.
- NAWCTSD Customer Experience.
- Earn Value Management Experience.
- DoD Modeling Simulation and Training Background.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in project management, business management, or a related field
- At least 5–10 years of project and resource management experience
- Department of Defense contract experience
- Strong financial acumen
- Proposal experience
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Full-spectrum leadership experience managing diverse, distributed, and virtual teams
- PMP or DAWIA Advanced certification
- NAWCTSD customer experience
- Earned Value Management experience
- Department of Defense modeling, simulation, and training background
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
What We Do
By Light Professional IT Services LLC (By Light) provides a full range of hardware and software engineering services to defense, civilian, and commercial customers worldwide. Driven by a management team that leverages real-world expertise from the defense, intelligence, federal healthcare, and commercial sectors, we provide reliable, efficient, and cost-effective IT solutions. Some of our successes include: • Completion of 80+ Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE) sites both CONUS & OCONUS. Provided Optical Network Engineering, Implementation, & Project Control Worldwide. • Provided timely completion of ATM to IP Migration, Legacy Network Optimization, & VOIP Implementation of 47 CONUS Sites for the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) SCAMPI Network. • Supporting the AMC CIO/G6 in the Depot Modernization Program, implementing CONUS wide 802.11/a/b/g/n wireless networks, Area Processing Center Migration, DISN Optimization, and a 40,000 user, enterprise-wide SharePoint Implementation. • Completion of 2,000 Plus Legacy Circuit Migrations to DISN Transport for DISN Transition Program. • Delivered Communications Support & Staff Augmentation for Deployed DoD Forces under the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems Technology Applications Office (PEO EIS TAO). • Successful Implementation of Secure Intelligent Video Systems (IVS) for the Intelligence Community. • Supporting major international carriers in the modernization and expansion of Data Center Facilities. • Engineering new Turnkey “Cloud Services,” including Hosting, Managed Services, COOP, and Data Storage and Archival.









