Description

The Capital Area Division (CAD) of Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) has an outstanding opportunity for accomplished Senior Intelligence Analyst in SIGINT, GEOINT, and all-source intelligence analysts with experience using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developments that are regional and/or functional in nature. Successful applicants for these contingent positions will support the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the National Capital Region or on-site in Honolulu, HI.

These contingent positions supporting the DoD’s Assault Breaker II (ABII) program require candidates with experience performing a variety of intelligence collection management functions to support Government decisionmakers, including:

• Interfacing with ABII program managers, technical experts, and operational entities to identify and refine intelligence requirements associated with their respective efforts

• Providing Intelligence Community products and deliverables to ABII stakeholders to enable programmatic success

• Developing production requirements to satisfy ABII intelligence needs where existing production is insufficient

• Collaborating with the Intelligence Community, Defense Department, national labs, and academia to address foreign military-related threat issues

• Generating intelligence-based recommendations in the form of technical briefings, reports, and other analytic documents

• Sustaining intelligence support to long-term R&D and acquisition programs

• Representing authoritatively ABII stakeholders in intelligence-related forums and establishing senior advisory panels to provide recommendations related to systems and technologies supporting ABII

• Participation in working groups

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution (with Government approval, relevant experience may be substituted for post-high school degrees)

• 10 years of relevant experience

• US citizen

• Must have a current and active TS clearance with SCI eligibility

• Understanding of foreign military order-of-battle, force generation, and/or enabling industry and infrastructure

• Extensive intelligence analysis experience and expert understanding of Intelligence Community support arrangements and processes

• Familiarity with acquisition intelligence and providing intelligence support to R&D life-cycle activities

• Strong written and verbal communications skills and excellent time management skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with the Assault Breaker program, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and/or DARPA

• Experience providing intelligence support to one or more of the following areas: space, land, air, and naval surface warfare, electronic warfare, and/or special operations

• Experience providing intelligence support to Defense modeling and simulation and wargaming activities

This position is contingent upon award of a contract (one base year + four option years) expected in September/October 2024 supporting the Department of Defense.

COMPANY INFORMATION:

Applied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 2000 professionals. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership generates greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please visit our website at www.ara.com .

Please apply at www.careers.ara.com for the Senior Intelligence Analyst position.

Qualifications

Behaviors

Required

• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group

• Functional Expert: Considered a thought leader on a subject

• Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest

• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

Motivations

Required

• Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help

• Job Security: Inspired to perform well by the knowledge that your job is safe

• Growth Opportunities: Inspired to perform well by the chance to take on more responsibility

• Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks

Education

Required

• Bachelors or better

Experience

Required

• 10-12 years: Relevant work experience

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)