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Senior Political-Military (POL-MIL) Analyst (Intelligence Analyst 5)- 4550

Washington, DC

Job Description

Who We Are

HII-TSD requires a Senior Political-Military (POL-MIL) Analyst to provide support to the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA's) Centers and Offices at Bolling AFB, Washington, DC. Specifically, this includes the following:

  • Provide strategic all source analysis products and assessments across multiple disciplines, including regional stability, foreign military and security forces, insurgent organizations, counterterrorism, and counterintelligence, to create high value actionable intelligence and warning products that meet Intelligence Community Directives (ICD) 203 and Intelligence Community (IC) standards
  • Provide strategic all source analysis products and assessments on foreign military and civilian infrastructures and the defense-related resources that underpin a nation's military capabilities including transportation, logistics, defense economics, energy systems, arms trade, defense industries, and the operational environment
  • Provide strategic all source assessments on foreign countries, foreign national C4I, Foreign Defense Cyberspace Intelligence (DCI), and Foreign Use of the Cyberspace Domain
  • Provide intelligence visualization, dissemination, and business analytic services to the analytic workforce consistent with standards developed by DIA
  • Specifically, the Senior POL-MIL analyst conducts all-source analytic production on foreign military, political, and security-related issues including, but not limited to, regional military capabilities, strategy, doctrine, operations, leadership intentions and decision-making, military leadership, defense and security policies, irregular warfare, civil-military relations, and defense relations with the U.S. and other countries

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What you will do

The Senior POL-MIL Analyst will provide strategic level products on foreign military, security, and related political issues including, but not limited to:
  • Foreign military organizations (including paramilitary and irregular warfare units)
  • Maritime, Air, and Conventional forces (including capabilities and limitations)
  • Command structure and force disposition
  • Equipment, operations, and exercise facilities
  • Supporting infrastructure and lines of communication
  • Regional military capabilities and regional military commitments
  • Military and related civilian leadership and leadership intentions
  • Decision-making processes
  • Defense and security policies
  • Defense relations with the U.S. and other countries


What we are looking for

  • 15 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 13 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 10 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 19 years relevant experience
  • Demonstrate ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution
  • Demonstrate ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence
  • Demonstrate ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems
  • Provide guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies
  • Use argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives
  • Clearance: Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Clearance with CI/Poly


Bonus Points for...

  • Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years
  • Master's Degree in an area related to Political-Military analysis from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have Bachelor's Degree related to Political-Military analysis from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master's Degree


Physical Requirements

May require working in an office, industrial, shipboard, or laboratory environment.

Building on a legacy of more than a century of naval shipbuilding, Technical Solutions, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries provides mission-critical solutions to a wide variety of government and commercial customers worldwide. Comprising nearly 6,000 professionals in 45 states and 16 countries, our unique national security services portfolio includes unmanned systems, defense and federal solutions, and nuclear and environmental services. For more information, visit tsd.huntingtoningalls.com.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is America's largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII's Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII's Technical Solutions division supports national security missions around the globe with unmanned systems, nuclear and environmental services, and defense and federal solutions. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs more than 42,000 people operating both domestically and internationally. For more information, visit: www.huntingtoningalls.com .

Federal Executive Order 14042 requires that covered contractor employees who work on, or in connection with, covered Federal contracts or at covered contractor workplaces may be required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and comply with other requirements. Covered contractor employees also must comply with agency COVID-19 workplace safety requirements while in Federal workplaces. Applicant agrees to comply with said requirements to the extent they apply to the applied-for position.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is an Equal Opportunity/Vets and Disabled Employer. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.

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