Defense Industry Analyst - Senior

Overview

SOSi is seeking a Senior level Defense Industry Analyst to join our team in Ft. Belvoir, VA, responsible for conducting all-source analysis of foreign defense industrial programs, infrastructure, and capabilities supporting a foreign country's ability to develop, equip, sustain, and employ its military forces across basic, strategic, and military industrial sectors.

Essential Job Duties

• In this role you will provide WMD Counter Analysis Support and Chemical & Biological Warfare Program Analysis.
• Assess the research, development, acquisition, test, evaluation and production of foreign weapon systems and equipment; their associated facilities and output levels, knowledge of emerging and enabling technologies; and supporting industrial supply networks from raw materials to finished weapon systems.
• Conduct analysis to include overall industrial organization, production processes, industrial control systems, design and surge capacities, cooperative arrangements with foreign defense industries and reliance on foreign technologies, plan programming budgeting.

Minimum Requirements

• BA degree in relevant field.
• 8 years of experience or a total of 12 years in lieu of a degree with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance with SCI and must be able to obtain CI Poly.
• Proficient in conducting all-source analysis of foreign defense industrial programs, infrastructure, and capabilities supporting a foreign country's ability to develop, equip, sustain, and employ its military forces across basic, strategic, and military industrial sectors.
• Experience assessing the research, development, acquisition, test, evaluation and production of foreign weapon systems and equipment; their associated facilities and output levels, knowledge of emerging and enabling technologies; and supporting industrial supply networks from raw materials to finished weapon systems.
• Experience conducting analysis including but is not limited to overall industrial organization, production processes, industrial control systems, design and surge capacities, cooperative arrangements with foreign defense industries and reliance on foreign technologies.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the related field activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.
• Demonstrates ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrates in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrates ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

Preferred Qualifications

• A strong grasp of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or missile programs.
• Defense certified analysts; preferably with military service analyst certifications.
• Detailed knowledge of NGIC, Army, DIA, NSA, CIA, and/or interagency operations
• Superior understanding of DoD Intelligence processes, activities, standards, and available analytic tools

Work Environment

• Normal office conditions
• On government site in Fort Belvoir, Virginia

Working at SOSi

All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason.