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Background.  USAMMDA is the largest Department of Defense's (DoD) medical materiel development activity designed to protect and preserve the lives of Warfighters.  USAMMDA develops, modernizes, procures, and fields new drugs, vaccines, medical devices and support equipment that enhances readiness, ensuring the provision of the highest quality medical care to the DoD and maximizing survival of medical casualties on the battlefield.General.  The Contractor will provide financial management support to the USAMMDA organization within the realm of the DoD’s PPBE process.  The Contractor will apply pertinent laws, regulations, policies, procedures, and work processes to requirements involving the major issues and goals and objectives for product life cycle. Planning and Programming Support The Contractor will provide support for the current and annual Strategic Portfolio Analysis Review (SPAR), POM builds, and next fiscal year spend plans for DoD appropriations such as Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDTE); Procurement; and Operations and Maintenance.  The POM is the means by which an organization provides its requirements to Army or DHA to gain funding in the future year’s defense program.  The process ensures that financial requirement decisions are made deliberately, are scientifically and programmatically sound, and can realistically be executed with USAMMDA’s capabilities.  The SPAR is the approved Army modernization efforts for the years beyond the POM and specifically focuses on the Chief of Staff of the Army’s top priorities, readiness (current fight) and the future Army (future fight), by developing investment strategies to ensure the Army can defeat a pacing threat in an anti-access/area denial environment while still combating terrorism.   The Contractor will use but not be limited to using cost estimates such as the LCCE, Average Procurement Unit Cost (APUC), direct and indirect costs in the development of the POM and SPAR. The Contractor will assist in preparing the LCCE for acquisition products.   Personnel performing in this task area will use common cost estimating techniques and apply those to the DoD appropriation categories to assist in building the LCCE. In addition, personnel performing in this task area will have the capability of developing and informing financial schedules, which assist in the development of life cycle cost estimation.  Personnel performing in this task area will have the capability to utilize MS Office, to include MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Project, and MS Word, at an intermediate to advanced level.   Budgeting and Execution Support The Contractor will provide support for the annual spend plan for specific project management offices, products and assemblages budget formulations, justifications, and oversight monitoring, and submission of status reports and accompanying recommendations.  The spend plan is the means by which the organization plans the next year’s execution of funds based on the planned budget allotment. The Contractor will assist and recommend methods for effective and efficient use of funding in the budget and will assist in the IPT process in the collection, compilation, and presentation of budgetary data for inclusion in decision review packages. The Contractor may also be a member of and participate in an IPT. The Contractor will assist with preparing business case analyses and conduct reviews of fiscal risk areas. The Contractor will also support the development of budget submissions (Procurement (P)-Forms, Research Development Test and Evaluation (R)-Forms, etc.). The Contractor will coordinate and consolidate financial input into monthly financial reports from USAMMDA’s financial systems on obligation and disbursement status of the organization’s product and assemblage portfolios. The Contractor will provide and analyze reports on programmatic planning and execution data, provide periodic updates to financial plans, inclusive of planned release schedules as well as obligations and disbursements noting current fiscal year activity, and submit reports that will be used to brief senior management and external funding organizations. The Contractor will provide financial management support to the overall organization portfolio to update and reconcile financial appropriations data to actual budget and execution and future spend plan data details.   The Contractor will support and monitor the acquisition process in designated financial management data systems and ensure contracts, grants, or other agreements are executed and funded as outlined. The Contractor will maintain project and grant/contract financial reports (planned expenditures to invoiced expenses) and coordinate with peers in the funding chain in other organizations or commands. The Contractor will assist in preparing pre-contract management documentation such as creating cabinets, preparing contract packets, and assisting in development of IGEs.   The Contractor will use a variety of systems such as but not limited to:  USAMMDA’s Medical Product Development & Acquisition Planning Tool  (Product Tracking System (PTS), Command Budget Estimate (CBE) System and Project Codes and Numbers System (PCAN)), the Daily Variance Report, and the GFEBS, Comprehensive Cost And Requirements (CCaR), Electronic Catalogs (ECAT), TEWLS, and Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE). The Contractor will also use the Electronic Document Access (EDA) system for contract award and modification research to assist in clearing Unliquidated Obligations prior to funds expiration.   Personnel performing this in this task area will have the capability to work with the MS Office Suite, especially Excel and project. Additionally, personnel performing in this task area will have the ability to apply interpersonal skills, knowledge in the areas of DoD financial management regulation and PPBE processes to technologies, products and assemblages in such areas as but not limited to vaccine technology and drug treatment therapies for infectious diseases of military relevance; and/or blood and blood products and other combat casualty care products or devices; and/or post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury; and/or clinical and regulatory support; and/or health, performance and evacuation products; and/or the overarching USAMMDA financial portfolio.