ECS is seeking a Special Programs Support Specialist (GEOINT Analyst) to work in our Springfield, VA office.
This position is contingent upon Prime and government customer acceptance, validation of appropriate clearances, and approval from a cognizant government contracting officer. Following customer indoctrination, the selected candidate will be submitted for, and must pass, a Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph.
ECS is seeking a Special Programs Support Specialist (GEOINT Analyst) to work at our Springfield, VA customer site. The GEOINT Analyst produces and publishes imagery analysis and reports using the GEOINT Enterprise Tasking, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TPED) Services (AKA GETS) system, or other system(s) directed by Advanced Optical Technologies (AOT) and/or its partner's mission center lead. The GEOINT analyst exploits Full Motion Video (FMV) GEOINT to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) standards and quality, and provides mission-supporting imagery analysis focused on political, diplomatic, military, and economic development. The GEOINT Analyst monitors and assesses adversarial military-deployed order of battle, military development, and military operations in country and abroad.
Specific duties:
- Support GEOINT task collection and ensure analytic products meet/exceed customer standards.
- Provide analyses of targets of interest, utilizing various platforms and all source (GEOINT, SIGINT, HUMINT, and OSINT).
- Produce Imagery/GEOINT remarks, daily briefings, detailed mission graphics, and other ad-hoc reports as directed by the government customer and Prime on-site lead.
- Collaborate with mission center officers, as directed by the government and Prime on-site lead, to attend meetings; report project status; update findings; clarify analysis requirements and essential elements of information; verify required analysis periodicity and reporting threshold; and maximize mission value.
- Provide GEOINT expertise, as appropriate, to support all source analysts and aid in their professional development. This includes assisting with all source analysts' research questions and presentation of findings, as well as providing feedback on imagery studies research.
- Support value and limitations assessments of various imagery data provided in support of finished intelligence products.
- Produce source and cited imagery products and draft imagery analytical reports, using provided templates.
- Respond to requests for information with tailored imagery analysis products.
- Other duties, as assigned.
- US Citizen.
- Active / current DoD Top Secret security clearance with SCI indoctrination (TS/SCI), with the ability to obtain / maintain a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI Poly).
- High School diploma and 5+ years of intelligence experience (e.g., SIGINT, HUMINT, Geospatial, All-Source); alternatively, a college degree in a related field of study.
- Prior completion of a military Basic Intelligence Course.
- Formal Intelligence School coursework, typically consisting of 2+ months in duration, full-time, and resulting in a Military Intelligence MOS (e.g. All-Source, IMINT, SIGINT, HUMINT, etc.).
- Ability to accurately discern red, green, blue, and yellow colors on a video screen.
- Thorough understanding of the basic intelligence cycle/process.
- Prior experience producing GEOINT-tailored products and responses to requests for information (RFI).
- Previous experience in exploitation, research, and Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) using geospatially enabled data and information (e.g., spatial and temporal aspects of GEOINT, SIGINT, HUMINT, and OSINT).
- Prior experience with developing and baselining GEOINT / imagery signatures in analytic databases and tradecraft.
- Cultural and/or Regional expertise.
- Additional experience with:
- Intelligence operations focused on the Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) process
- Remote sensing (EO, SAR, MASINT, IR, and LiDAR)
- Military Order of Battle
- Structured Observation Schema Development
- Mission issues (Military, Transnational, Targeting, Asymmetric Warfare, and Navigation)
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate solution.
- Highly developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and professionally interact with a diverse set of stakeholders (from peers to end-users to executive management).