Ground Systems Analyst I 116-004

Ground Systems Analyst I:

Job Description:

Conducts all-source analytic production of foreign military ground forces and systems including, but not limited to, doctrine, D&D, exercises, platforms, sensors, motor transport, armor, artillery, C2, logistical and maintenance, readiness, and missions.

Job Duties:

• Conduct All-Source analytic production of foreign military ground systems including, but not limited to, platforms, sensors, motor transport, armor, anti-armor, artillery, firearms, explosives, logistical and maintenance, readiness, and missions.

• Analyze and assess current and future foreign missile technology to include but not limited to foreign missile system capabilities, vulnerabilities, advanced weapon systems, technical data analysis, and tactics, techniques, and procedures.

• Analyze foreign precision weapon systems and indirect fire weapon platforms to forecast future technologies, identify new applications of mature technologies, and assess the impact of technology transfers.

• Work with engineers, scientists, and/or modelers on foreign weapons processes, capabilities, and dual-use technologies.

• Analyzes and assesses current and future foreign, lethal and non-lethal, weapon systems including, but not limited to, system capabilities, vulnerabilities, production, stockpile, deployment, proliferation, and impact to U.S. and Coalition forces worldwide.

• Conduct all-source analysis to evaluate foreign military systems and technologies.

• Conduct research, create intelligence products, create intelligence estimate assessments, and conduct intelligence briefings on request based on MCIA’s Program of Analysis (POA) and customer-driven requests for information (RFIs).

• Collect, analyze, interpret, evaluate and research using tools, techniques, methodology and software.

• Produce and deliver written intelligence assessments and briefings to support consumers at the tactical, operational, and strategic level as assigned. Written products will meet Intelligence Community Standards (e.g., ICD 203, 206, 208) and MCIA standards and adhere to MCIA production and review processes.

• Maintain situational awareness of and analyze the assigned portfolio.

• Conduct research to determine current and future foreign capabilities.

• Follow technology transfer and its military impact and ability of recipient countries to assimilate transferred technology.

• Annually publish/produce at least the minimum number of all-source analysis products (e.g., written and oral reports) as dictated by the production requirements on assigned account.

• Collect, analyze, interpret, evaluate and integrate complex data from multiple sources to assess the relevance and significance of developments in his/her assigned subject matter and geographic area(s).

• Identify and assess intelligence gaps, recommend and submit collection requirements to fill gaps.

• Develops collection strategies and composes collection requirements.

• Correlate technically derived data using multiple intelligence disciplines and open source information.

• Attend, participate in, and contribute to relevant conferences and other events.

• Maintain contact and collaborate with counterparts across MCIA and in other intelligence organizations to keep abreast of current developments, to resolve problems to eliminate duplication, and to provide free flow of information on matters of intelligence interest.

• Deliver subject matter expertise to support the development of new processes, procedures, and technologies.

• Conduct peer reviews and reviews of intelligence products submitted for internal coordination and external intelligence community coordination.

• Provide portfolio specific analysis, expertise, and intelligence production as specified below.

• Conduct Threat Steering Groups with members across USMC Combat Development & Integration to identify key factors and significant risk drivers for potential materiel solutions that may inform lifecycle cost, performance, schedule, and other acquisition decision making.

• Produce and deliver Validated Online Lifecycle Threat Reports (VOLTs), Critical Intelligence Parameters (CIPs), and Capability Development Threat Summaries to support Marine Corps Acquisition Programs across the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) process, to support the Defense Acquisition System.

Education and Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category, with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

• Bachelor’s degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. An additional 4 years of experience in the specific labor category, for a total of 7 years of experience in the specific labor category, may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS SCI and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed.