POSITION LOCATION: Colorado Springs, CO
DESCRIPTION:
The qualified applicant will support the Adversary Assessment Division (AAD) of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC) Multi-Domain Sensing Program (MDSP) located in Colorado Springs, CO. The applicant will research, characterize, and evaluate diverse foreign missile threats intended to disrupt US military forces. The applicant will use all-source and single-source intelligence reporting and direct coordination/collaboration with the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to assess threat capabilities, signatures, and operations. In addition, the applicant will provide support to enable operational/strategic assessments of U.S. space capabilities designed to provide missile warning.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide expert insight into current and future adversary threat missile technologies, capabilities, characteristics and performance.
- Support space- and counter-space threat assessment efforts in conjunction with other SWAC intelligence elements
- Research, author, and coordinate threat assessment products fusing diverse sources of threat information, to include but not limited to intelligence reporting
- Identify, extract, and analyze information using IC and DoD tools and databases to determine threat capabilities, signatures, and operations
- Engage IC partners to solicit further insights and collaborate on additional research
- Employ a variety of analytical methodologies to include network analysis, link/relationship discovery analysis, temporal analysis, and other quantitative methods to support assessments
- Identify critical information gaps and task IC entities to conduct further collection and analysis
- Support the evaluation of existing and future capabilities related to U.S. National Security Space systems for missile warning
REQUIREMENTS:
- Full-time onsite support in Colorado Springs
- Security Clearance Required: TS/SCI
- 3+ years of experience with all-source intelligence analysis with a minimum of three (3) years relevant experience with the IC and/or DoD and desired three (3) years technical missile experience
- Bachelor’s degree; Additional years’ experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
- Ability to develop and present to leadership decision quality briefings and papers
- Demonstrated problem solving/critical thinking in complex and dynamic environments
- Understanding of the IC, including roles and responsibilities across various IC organizations
- Familiarity with IC reporting, sources, dissemination mechanisms and tradecrafts
- Experience collaborating with IC professionals and understanding of formal/informal IC tasking mechanisms
- Experience working in classified, compartmented, and Special Access Program/Special Access Required environments
- Ability to meet with IC and DoD counterparts including travel
- Experience with technical assessment of foreign ballistic missiles, hypersonic glide vehicles, hypersonic cruise missiles, missile trajectory analysis, missile modeling and/or missile signatures highly desired
Space expertise, from either intelligence analysis or Blue Operations perspective, is desired