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Budget Analyst

Defense Health Agency

Department of Defense

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Location

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$143,913 - $187,093

per year

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February 17, 2026More DOD jobs →

GS-13 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $88,520 - $115,079

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-12. Expert-level knowledge in field.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves managing and analyzing massive budgets for the Defense Health Agency, including preparing financial plans, reviewing submissions from various health programs, and ensuring funds are used correctly for military healthcare.

It supports the Department of Defense's health mission by handling billions in resources for operations, procurement, and research.

A good fit would be someone with strong financial analysis skills, experience in government budgeting, and attention to detail who can work with complex data systems.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience at GS-12 level or equivalent, including analyzing appropriations and monitoring budget execution
  • Proficiency in preparing budget justifications and resource exhibits for large-scale programs
  • Experience utilizing automated programming systems such as MP2BET, MPPT, OneNumber, and DBET
  • Ability to conduct in-depth financial studies and analyze data for accuracy and completeness
  • Knowledge of federal budgeting processes, including Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and President's Budget formulation
  • U.S. citizenship required
  • Relevant paid or unpaid experience, including volunteer work, clearly described in resume

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position supports the mission of the Defense Health Agency, and is located in Falls Church, Virginia.

Salary negotiation may be available for those candidates who are new to Federal service. Leave accrual negotiation may be available for those candidates who are new to the Federal service.

This is a Direct Hire Solicitation Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes analyzing annual appropriations, monitoring budget execution, preparing budget justifications, and utilizing automated programming systems ( e.g., MP2BET, MPPT, OneNumber, and DBET).

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13). Major Duties:

  • Develop the tens of billion dollar Unified Medical Program for the Program Objective Memorandum (POM); reviews, analyzes and prepares assigned resource exhibits to justify required resources for programs, projects and activities.
  • Educate and coordinate with the MHS components on the data elements required to be reported, and analyzes the components’ submissions for accuracy and completeness.
  • Research, analyze and prepare assigned resource exhibits required to formulate the annual Defense Health Program (DHP) $30 billion President’s Budget to justify required resources for programs, projects and activities.
  • Monitor the budget execution for the DHP Appropriations, Operation and Maintenance, Procurement, and Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, for the individual MHS components and the individual special interest programs.
  • Conduct in-depth financial studies on the resource requirements for a broad range of DHP issues and programs.
  • Control, account and distribute to MHS components the DHP funds allotted by OUSD (C).

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/12/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/12/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: HQKF-26-12883859-DHA