WMD Analyst

The Capabilities Analysis Division (CAD) of Applied Research Associates, Inc.

(ARA)has an outstanding opportunity for an WMD Analyst with experience identifying, monitoring, and assessing foreign threats to the U.S.

nuclear enterprise and its information systems, networks, and/or critical infrastructure.

This position routinely conducts technical and all-source analyses that characterize foreign actors and threats in order to effectively warn and protect U.S.

nuclear-, strategic, and C4I-related elements.

The WMD Analyst contributes to Defense Intelligence Enterprise deliverables, including but not limited to foundational assessments, warning reports, technical briefings, and other analytic documents.

The position collaborates with the Intelligence Community, Defense Department, national labs, and academia to address nuclear enterprise-related threat issues.  The Intelligence Analyst provides guidance to less experienced staff, reviews the work of others, authoritatively contributes to multi-functional analytic teams, and maintains currency in understanding relevant technologies, trends, and threats.

The position is expected to understand and articulate official government analytic positions during customer engagements and represent Defense Intelligence Enterprise analytic units as directed.

Required Qualifications:


* Bachelor’s degree at an accredited university


* 8 years of experience conducting intelligence cycle functions and/or creating intelligence reports, assessments, or deliverables or 12 years of experience in lieu of a degree


* Ability to communicate complex analyses at a level comprehensible to diverse military audiences and senior-level government representatives


* Ability to clearly express in writing, technical analysis results and program characterizations


* Demonstrated knowledge of state nuclear, biological, and/or chemical (NBC) programs, strategic weapons developments, and WMD-related proliferation and procurement


* Practical understanding of the technical requirements – both established and improvised – necessary to weaponize NBC materials


* Understanding of global technology control, arms-control, nonproliferation, and threat reduction efforts associated with combating WMD


* Experience characterizing and assessing consequence management variables associated with NBC weapon use and CBRN contaminated environments


* Active TS/SCI clearance


* Must be willing and able to take a polygraph

Desired Qualifications:


* Advanced degree and/or technical training applicable to the WMD problem set


* Military or defense-related experience and working familiarity with strategies, policies, and plans that enable defense against CBRN threats and prevent the proliferation of WMD


* Experience integrating intelligence and information that informs and enables CWMD exercise planning and execution


* Understanding of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, DIA, and Service...