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Top Secret/SCI
Unspecified
CI Polygraph
IT - Software
Springfield, VA (On-Site/Office)
Salary: $160,000-175,000
Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active TS/SCI clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be willing to sit for a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
Background:
We are seeking a highly motivated GEOINT Imagery Standards Developer to join our team in providing specialized support and advice to our government customer.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Ensure current and future GEOINT standards will satisfy capability requirements at the program and strategic level across NGA, the NSG, and ASG.
• Develop capability-based standards profiles & reference architectures to enable search, discovery, access, and retrieval, integrated intelligence, and advanced analytics are enabled.
Required Qualifications:
Desired Qualifications:
Education Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience as defined below.
Years of Experience:
Master's degree plus 4 years of experience, Bachelor's degree plus 6 years, Associates degree ply 8 years, or a minimum of years of 8 experience in a relevant field
Position Type: Full-Time
Shift: Day
(Pay transparency is important at ACS and is one way we ensure we remain on a committed path to equality and fairness. However, note that salary offers are dependent on many factors, including a candidate's education, clearance, practicing skill level, scope of influence, and years of experience, and offers may fall outside of this advertised range.)
Assured Consulting Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Minorities, females, disabled, and protected veterans are urged to apply. ACS' utilization of any external recruitment or job placement agency is predicated upon its full compliance with our equal opportunity/affirmative action policies. ACS does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services.
Export Control: For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ACS may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.
Pay Range: $160,000 - $175,000 per hour
Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active TS/SCI clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be willing to sit for a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
Background:
We are seeking a highly motivated GEOINT Imagery Standards Developer to join our team in providing specialized support and advice to our government customer.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Responsible for providing specialized advice and assistance on complex technical projects.
- Independently performs a variety of system analysis, design and/or engineering tasks that are broad and innovative in nature.
- Participates in national level steering and advisory groups, panels and committees.
- Advises/mentors technical personnel at all levels and reviews work for technical accuracy.
- Guides the strategic growth of scientific imagery programs.
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on development of Still and/or Motion Imagery Standards with the objective of facilitating compliance and interoperability through integration of NSG & ASG requirements while reducing technical and schedule risk in the following functional areas:
- Still Imagery standards including, but not exclusive to:
- National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF)
- NITF Extensions (MIE4NITF, SIDD, SICD, etc.)
- NATO Imagery STANAGs (NSIF, for instance)
- Motion Imagery standards & phenomenologies including, but not exclusive to:
- Electro Optical (EO)
- Large Volume Motion Imagery (LVMI)/Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI)
- Infrared Motion Imagery Standards (IR)
- Multispectral Imaging (MSI)
- Hyper spectral imaging (HSI)
- Still Imagery standards including, but not exclusive to:
• Ensure current and future GEOINT standards will satisfy capability requirements at the program and strategic level across NGA, the NSG, and ASG.
• Develop capability-based standards profiles & reference architectures to enable search, discovery, access, and retrieval, integrated intelligence, and advanced analytics are enabled.
Required Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- Able to develop & use more complex concepts & processes
- Performs multiple tasks at specialist level
- Leads multiple Junior/Mid-level personnel
- May be recognized as a SME
- Evaluates & recommends new technology & processes based upon cost, risk, mission
Desired Qualifications:
- Understanding of Imaging Process
- Concepts of sensors & how they work
- Concepts of sensor collection parameters
- Understanding of Imaging Workflow
- Concepts of how imagery data flows from collection platform to exploitation system to archive
- Concepts of what processing or metadata additions can occur at the various steps in workflow
- Understanding of GEOINT Standards core components
- File formats
- NITF is a byte-offset format so what are the pros/cons
- Be aware of other formats ISOBMFF, HDF5, TIFF/GEOTIFF, etc.
- Metadata models vs Metadata encoding
- File formats
- Understand abstract content models & organization from purpose perspective
- Sensor info, platform info, coordinate reference systems, security info, discovery & retrieval info, etc.
- Understand various metadata encodings (e.g., NITE TRE/SDE, KLV, XML, JSON, binary, etc.) and their pros/cons
- Image formats vs Image compression
- Understand various ways to represent 2-D pixel array data, band/pixel interleaving, etc.
- Understand various image compression techniques, pros/cons of each, typically where each is used & why
- Dissemination Protocols
- Block FTP vs Streaming protocols
- Encapsulation in IP or other server/client protocols
- Clear & concise technical writing to unambiguously convey technical concepts & guidance
- Clearly define scope, define all terms in use, leverage EARS to convey requirements, use active voice, etc.
- Have ability to write technical GEOINT standards with inputs from other SMEs
- Be proactive in finding information or understanding new topics
- Ask questions, develop understanding to level that you can convey concepts to others
- Consistently demonstrate willingness to learn & follow through
- Facilitate technical discussions with community experts
- Scope topic appropriately, keep discussions on track to achieve desired outcome
- Generate & present slides to all levels of audiences regarding GEOINT standards
Education Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience as defined below.
Years of Experience:
Master's degree plus 4 years of experience, Bachelor's degree plus 6 years, Associates degree ply 8 years, or a minimum of years of 8 experience in a relevant field
Position Type: Full-Time
Shift: Day
(Pay transparency is important at ACS and is one way we ensure we remain on a committed path to equality and fairness. However, note that salary offers are dependent on many factors, including a candidate's education, clearance, practicing skill level, scope of influence, and years of experience, and offers may fall outside of this advertised range.)
Assured Consulting Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Minorities, females, disabled, and protected veterans are urged to apply. ACS' utilization of any external recruitment or job placement agency is predicated upon its full compliance with our equal opportunity/affirmative action policies. ACS does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services.
Export Control: For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ACS may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.
Pay Range: $160,000 - $175,000 per hour
group id: 90900580
