Description
Gather, analyze, and evaluate defense-relevant information from intelligence networks, operational reporting, and geospatial systems to anticipate, assess, and counter military and national security threats.
- • Forecast adversary military, cyber, and hybrid activities using multi-source analysis and modeling.
- • Assess foreign force structure, doctrine, logistics, and weapons systems, including WMD programs.
- • Build and maintain analytic databases, GIS layers, dashboards, and AI/operations research models.
- • Develop threat profiles and likely courses of action for state and non-state actors.
- • Analyze communications, signals, and open-source data to map networks and command relationships.
- • Exploit imagery, radar, SIGINT, and ISR feeds to assess order of battle and activity.
- • Fuse HUMINT, OSINT, GEOINT, MASINT, and partner reporting into integrated assessments.
- • Correlate multi-domain data from DoD, IC, and allied databases to improve fidelity.
- • Visualize adversary units, capabilities, logistics routes, and timelines using link charts and maps.
- • Prioritize and task ISR collection and manage RFIs to close information gaps.
- • Produce threat estimates, briefings, maps, and dashboards for commanders and policymakers.
- • Support collection strategies and cyberspace operations planning within legal authorities.
- • Analyze defense industrial base, procurement, and sanctions evasion to assess adversary resourcing.
- • Validate assessments through cross-cueing, red-teaming, and alternative analysis.
- • Coordinate with DoD components, IC agencies, interagency, and coalition partners to align assessments.
- • Support contingency planning, force posture analysis, wargaming, and operational risk assessments.
- • Elicit and analyze subject-matter expert and partner force reporting to inform judgments.
- • Apply foreign language and technical tradecraft to exploit foreign military and technical materials.
- • Identify indicators and warnings, operational patterns, and readiness trends.
- • Deliver concise, decision-focused presentations and written products to senior audiences.
- • Identify intelligence gaps and recommend collection priorities, experiments, or models to address them.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
