Operations Research Analyst (All Source) (ORA-AS) - Counter-Proliferation / Procurement - DOD TS/SCI

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking an experienced and highly organized Operations Research Analyst (All Source) – Counter‑Proliferation / Procurement Specialist.

Location: MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL

This position directly supports a Combatant Command’s Directorate of Operations, Interagency Coordination and Targeting Division (ICTD), working closely with interagency (IA) mission partners.
The analyst will help coordinate, synchronize, and integrate a wide range of DoD capabilities with IA authorities to support time‑sensitive, dynamic, and deliberate operations. The work contributes to comprehensive, multi‑layered, whole‑of‑government actions designed to achieve maximum operational effects.
The candidate will be embedded with a DoD team focused on irregular warfare (IW) support and will collaborate extensively with U.S. Government partners. The incumbent serves as the subject matter expert on fusing intelligence with other data sources to illuminate and exploit adversary vulnerabilities related to:

• Proliferation
• Production
• Procurement
• Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) networks

Role/Responsibilities:

• As a Subject Matter Expert, the SME will expertly handle mission requirements and deliver accurate, complete, tailored, finished products demonstrating deep-dive research skills utilizing industry leading analytical techniques and tools for crawling, scraping, aggregating, and triaging data that fills information gaps and expands on serialized IC data with unique, non-traditional, open source, and interagency case data.
• SME will contribute, enhance, and support the expansion of DoD capabilities to create effects against enemy networks and the entities supporting them by closing-off enemy exploited gaps and seams, and providing recommendations to action arms, policy makers, and regulatory bodies.
• Responsible for illumination, enumeration, and characterization of enemy network nodes, personalities, and their TTPs.
• SME will apply network development methodologies to perform nodal analysis.
• SME will perform unclassified and classified research, structured analytics, data triage, and forensic exploitation of aggregated raw, unstructured, structured, serialized, commercial data, technical papers, academic research papers, trade, passenger, cargo and export records, law enforcement case information, intelligence community finished intelligence, collected exploitable material (CEM), publicly available information, and international partner provided data.
• Based on the research and analysis of the data/information, the SME will produce complete, cohesive, cogent operations support packages, baseball cards, information papers, network presentations, link charts, evidentiary packages, charge presentations, enemy process/vulnerability products, target packages, and pattern of life studies used to coordinate combined DoD and IA deliberate and dynamic actions supporting effects on priority targets.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience. 
  • Military service-based training and an additional 4 years will be considered in lieu of the bachelors degree.
• Expertise and demonstrated ability to develop comprehensive network analysis products pertinent to trans-regional organized criminal TTPs as well as the U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND historic, current, and emerging threats.
• Experience in target development and validation process and applying a collection management strategy against designated targets.
• Prior work experience directly contributing to the DoD efforts supporting law enforcement efforts in countering illegal export violations, money laundering, and illegal procurement activities surrounding WMD, UAS, and ACW.
• Specialized skillsets of intelligence collection activities directly related to illuminating and exploiting enemy vulnerabilities related to proliferation and procurement.
• Specific, recent, relevant experience working with the Combatant Command’s Interagency Action Group multiple interagency partners (HSI, FBI, Departments of State, Treasury, and Commerce, and Justice as a part of Counter Procurement and Network Defeat Task Force.
  • Direct recent experience working alongside combined interagency authorities involved with counter scientific and technical capabilities used in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Advanced Conventional Weapons (ACW), and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
  • Experience in identifying threat networks operating against US and international partners and assisting in the planning for future risk mitigation efforts for countering UAS, ACW, and WMD.
• Experience operating in tactical, operational, strategic environments as well as multi-national and Interagency Partner environments as a staff member with minimum guidance with background in the following:
  • Demonstrated experience in developing and supporting DoD strategic and operational Irregular Warfare objectives
  • Demonstrated experience in working collaboratively with USG Interagency partners
  • Demonstrated ability to perform all source operational intelligence analysis
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver individually sourced unclassified and classified products, and parallel reconstructed products tailored to maximize wide-ranging capabilities and authorities
  • Demonstrated understanding of law enforcement agency organizational structures, functions, data sources, data types, programs, records management requirements
  • Demonstrated expertise with financial investigative groups that target complex enemy global money laundering, fraud, and other criminal financial activities
  • Demonstrated experience Identifying systemic weaknesses in DoD supply chains and providing detail analysis in written recommendations for improvement pertaining to government procurement actions.
• Demonstrated oral and written communications skills, including an expert ability to communicate effectively with 4-Star-Level & Department-Level Senior Leadership.
• Demonstrated experience ensuring deconfliction, equities checks, and intelligence collection requirements are clearly defined, articulated, and submitted to national intelligence stakeholders .
• Expert Microsoft Office Skills.
• U.S. Citizenship is required. 
• Current U.S. Passport.
• Current, active DoD Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility. 

Desired: 

• Master’s degree and minimum 15 years of experience working in the military All Source Intelligence field. 
• Graduate of a recognized Intelligence Targeting Course at the Joint or Service Level and Joint Effects experience.
• Experience working with distributed teams.
• Experience supporting tactical or strategic debriefing lines of questioning and source-directed requirements.
• Experience conducting or supporting counter-proliferation investigations and counter-proliferation activities.
• Experience doing component/systems research and technical analysis. 

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.