Job Description
CLEARANCE REQUIRED: TS/SCI with Poly
This job is located in: FT. Meade, MD
Education: Masters
Job Summary:
Perform as Tactical ISR collection, operations, and policy expert supporting AFCO dataflow mission operations and capabilities. The emphasis will be on collection ingest concerns, engagement with data marking, and configuration troubleshooting.
Establish, develop, and maintain effective working relationships with ACC directorates, USAF Special Program Offices, Headquarters of the Air Force, the Secretary of Defense, Services, combat support agencies, other combatant commands, the Intelligence Community, interagency, academia, and industry. Represent 16 AF across a variety of functional area organizations. Identify strategic implications of tactical efforts and recommend courses of action to proactively position the Air Force for success in closing intelligence gaps and facilitating integration efforts. Advise on cryptologic policy related to current and future ISR to enable, authorize, and support global USAF Service Cryptologic Component programs. Coordinate between USAF cryptologic organizations and various National Intelligence Agency elements, on all aspects of cryptologic capabilities.
Required Education and Experience:
10 years’ experience in PED from ISR sensors and platforms.
10 years’ experience with the national intelligence community.
Understanding of Tactical Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) challenges
Experience supporting the ACC ISR enterprise.
Must have experience dealing with Data Orchestration Services, JICD 4.2 communications structure, as well as knowledge of XML data format and understanding of national/airborne collection.
• Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
• Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with labor category mission.
• Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymaker (e.g., Undersecretary level or higher).
• Required Experience: Minimum 15 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Required Education: Master’s degree from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education or have a bachelor’s degree from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related expert experience, for a total of 20 years, as a substitute to the master’s degree.
Desired:
Experience with military collection management and Combatant Commands (CCMDs)
Previous experience with Air Operations Center (AOC) is highly sought
Why work for QSL?
Our founders, Mel Wick and Bill Cronin, retired from storied careers in the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Community. Like many Americans and military veterans, they felt a strong desire to support the nation’s response to the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in any way they could. They established QSL to do just that, Stay in the Fight! QSL is built on a SOF culture, emphasizing selfless-service and teamwork. Our employees work to ensure that warfighters have every possible resource and all necessary support to safely accomplish their missions in defense of our nation.
QSL's Benefit Package
Because we believe our employees are our most valuable asset, offering a competitive comprehensive compensation package is very important to us. It is the goal of QSL to attract and retain the highest level of experience and technical talent necessary for successful performance. In order to accomplish this, we feel that it is necessary to provide satisfying work, an excellent work environment, and we continually monitor the marketplace to ensure that our total compensation/benefit package remains competitive.
Listed below are some of our standard benefits. We combine all traditional paid time off (Federal holidays, sick time, leave time personal days, jury duty, bereavement, etc.) into one category which allows employees flexibility in how they use their leave time and enables them to better balance their career with their personal needs.
- Combined Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Medical, Dental, Life Insurance
- Disability (Short-Term and Long-Term)
- Vision Insurance (CONUS-based employees)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Employee Discount Programs
- Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring, and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above listed items. EEO/AAP, M, F, V, D.