Duties
The United States Space Force (USSF) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is searching for an Orbital Warfare Principal Intelligence Analyst to support NSIC (GG-0801-14).
Description:
The 2nd Intelligence Analysis Squadron within the National Space Intelligence Center is seeking an Orbital Warfare Principal Intelligence Analyst (GG-0801-14). This flight is responsible for assessing characteristics, performance, limitations, vulnerabilities, tactics and engagements of air and space-based anti-satellite weapons, providing integrated, predictive, counterspace threat intelligence for military operations, force modernization, and policy making communities. In this role, you will be responsible for planning, organizing, training, and directing teams of analysts comprised of intelligence and various engineering backgrounds to ensure that all-source technical intelligence analysis and production complies with legal and regulatory requirements and meets customer needs. You will lead complex counterspace threat analysis, applying innovative techniques and advanced technologies to solve unique intelligence problems. You will be responsible for advising and providing counsel to ~12 civilian, military, and contract employees regarding policies, procedures, and management directives. Additionally, this role may include limited supervisory responsibilities, to include but not limited to providing performance evaluation inputs for your team members, participating in flight hiring actions, etc. Qualified applicants will have experience analyzing and producing orbital warfare threat intelligence assessments, exemplary tradecraft and analysis skills, and exceptional leadership and communication skills.
Ideal Candidate:
The ideal candidate will serve as a national expert on orbital warfare threat intelligence for NSIC and the Intelligence Community (IC). In this role, you will provide technical leadership to flight analysts, advise management on project assignments, and mentor junior personnel. You will ensure quality assurance and oversight for analysts conducting independent research and multi-source intelligence analysis on foreign counterspace systems. This position requires advanced mastery of orbital warfare principles and methodologies-gained through professional or equivalent educational experience-to assess foreign space-based threats and produce finished intelligence assessments. Candidates must possess expert knowledge of space system employment and foreign counterspace capabilities, alongside a firm understanding of the U.S. Intelligence Community's organization and mission. Exceptional writing and oral communication skills are essential for preparing formal reports and delivering executive briefings.
Key Skills and Abilities:
1. Professional knowledge and mastery of a broad range of engineering, mathematics, statistical analysis, modeling/simulation, and/or other scientific concepts, principles, standards, methods, techniques, practices, and procedures related to scientific and technical intelligence analysis of foreign counterspace threats.
2. Expert counterspace or subsystems design and or operations. Knowledge and mastery of a comprehensive range of intelligence research and collection methods, techniques, and practices to use multi source intelligence information systems to capture data to make recommendations in developing intelligence capabilities, new hypothesis and theories, and threat assessments to interpret policy and commit resources.
3. Knowledge of advanced analytical tradecraft principles, concepts, and methods to produce detailed analysis of complex information/situations attained from multiple sources for the characterization, analysis and reporting of counter space threats.
4. Mastery of agency, USSF, DoW, and national-level doctrine, regulations, policies, guidelines, requirements, and initiatives related to assign programs and/or projects. Knowledge of the National Intelligence Community, Joint partners, DoW structure, organizations, and mission/functions, inter-relationships and operations. Knowledge of Intelligence Community Directives (ICDs), and the Standards, Guides, and Best Practices of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
5. Ability to lead a team in establishing and executing a production timeline, define analytic mission area direction, and effectively manage team workload. Skilling conducting unbiased complex research, communication, identifying appropriate available systems / data sources, and producing collection requirement assessments that answer specific tasks to link and leverage agency capabilities in support of consumers, customers, and clients.
6. Skill in communicating effectively with others, both orally and in writing, in working out solutions to problems or questions related to the work, writing clear and concise intelligence products, and delivering written and / or verbal presentations to senior level audiences for decision making purposes.
How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:
Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.
Required Documents
Resume:You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide:
- Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
- Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
- Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information:
- Job title
- Detailed duties and accomplishments
- Employer's name and address
- Supervisor's name and phone number
- Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.)
- Hours per week
- Salary, if applicable
- Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses
College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.