# Senior ISR Subject Matter Expert **Company**: Leidos **Location**: Suffolk, VA **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00 **Category**: Defence & Intelligence **Industry**: Defence & Intelligence **Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Suffolk-VA/Senior-ISR-Subject-Matter-Expert_R-00194022?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_1ecca1bd-8b1 ## Description The Defense Sector at Leidos is currently looking for a Senior ISR Subject Matter Expert. The Senior ISR Subject Matter Expert provides expert-level leadership, analysis, and operational support across the full spectrum of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) activities. You will lead planning, execution, sustainment, and training activities that ensure ISR processes remain precise, interoperable, and aligned with evolving operational requirements and intelligence authorities. **Primary Responsibilities:** - Provide senior-level management of planning, preparation, research, coordination, and execution of ISR-related tasks, delivering authoritative analysis and subject-matter expertise. - Develop and deliver detailed analytical reports, workflow visualizations, mission-thread products, and executive briefings that support intelligence-driven decision-making. - Conduct structured testing activities to validate ISR processes, systems, and mission-partner interoperability. - Report task progress to Senior Program Management Analysts and government leads, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and timely updates. - Conduct internal training aligned to ISR subject-matter expertise, strengthening team proficiency and operational readiness. - Support sustainment efforts to ensure consistent quality, efficiency, and productivity across all assigned ISR tasks. - Communicate clearly and effectively in written reports and verbal presentations, translating complex intelligence concepts for diverse audiences. - Interview military, civilian, and contractor personnel to efficiently extract operational and technical information required for ISR analysis. - Apply advanced analytical skills to identify capabilities and limitations, assess operational impacts, and provide focused, achievable recommendations. - Demonstrate expert knowledge of DOW and national intelligence organizations, authorities, and capabilities, ensuring alignment with joint and national intelligence frameworks. - Apply expert understanding of joint intelligence cycles to synchronize ISR planning, tasking, collection, analysis, and dissemination. - Analyze multisource intelligence to assess threats, support mission planning, and enable decision-quality recommendations for military operations. - Demonstrate experience in at least five ISR phases: Planning/Tasking, Collection Methods & Collection Management, Processing & Exploitation, Analysis & Production, and Dissemination. **Basic Qualifications:** - US Citizen with an active Secret clearance. - Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years related experience or Master’s degree and 6+ years related experience. - Minimum 8 years supporting military operational activities; minimum 8 years Targeting experience. - C5ISRT (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) and Targeting Experience. - Experience developing target packages and target list with detailed intelligence, capabilities and vulnerabilities. - Experience in supporting multi-domain mission planning and effects-based targeting. - Experience with automated targeting tools (e.g. JTT, MIDB) and Service specific fire control systems. - Shall have a deep understanding of the F2T2EA Cycle and the data tools and techniques utilized for each phase of targeting. - Analyze the operational effectiveness of targeting systems in various scenarios and environments. - Evaluate the impact of emerging technologies and trends on Targeting systems. - Working knowledge of U.S, NATO, and coalition partner targeting processes, procedures, and systems. - Apply analytical tools and methodologies to assess targeting system performance and identify areas for improvement. - Must possess skills to communicate effectively and clearly in written reports and verbal presentations. - Must possess skills to interview operational and technical military, civilian, and contractor to efficiently and accurately extract information. - Must possess analytical skills to identify capabilities and limitations, assess operational impacts and provide focused, achievable recommendations. - Demonstrated experience integrating ISR capabilities into joint and combined operational planning and targeting processes. - Experience supporting ISR collection management, intelligence requirements development, and the identification of intelligence collection gaps. - Experience integrating multi-intelligence (Multi-INT) capabilities, including GEOINT, SIGINT, MASINT, HUMINT, and OSINT, into operational planning and targeting processes. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Active Top Secret with eligibility for CUI, NATO Secret, ACCMs, SCI and SAPs. - Previous experience serving as a senior ISR advisor, targeting SME, or operational planning specialist. - Operational experience within a Joint Air Operations Center (JAOC), Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC), or comparable joint operational organization. - Experience supporting Joint Targeting Coordination Boards (JTCBs), Joint Targeting Working Groups (JTWGs), or equivalent operational planning forums. - Experience utilizing Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS), Global Command and Control System–Joint (GCCS-J), and other intelligence and command-and-control architectures. - Joint targeting Staff Course. - Joint duty experience. - Data Analyst background. - Combatant Command Staff. - Collection Management Course. - All-Source Intelligence Analysis Course. - Indications and Warning Intelligence. - Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment (JIPOE). - Target Development and Weaponeering Fundamentals. - Experience with Operational-Strategic Level Planning efforts. - Advanced or Intermediate military level school graduate. - Operational and C5ISR Assessment Experience. - Mission Partner Environment Experience. ## Skills ### Required - C5ISRT - Targeting - Intelligence - Surveillance - Reconnaissance - ISR - Analytical - Communication - Leadership - Planning - Execution - Sustainment - Training - F2T2EA Cycle - Automated targeting tools - Service specific fire control systems - Multi-domain mission planning - Effects-based targeting - Distributed Common Ground System - Global Command and Control System–Joint ### Nice to have - Top Secret clearance - NATO Secret - ACCMs - SCI - SAPs - Joint targeting Staff Course - Joint duty experience - Data Analyst background - Combatant Command Staff - Collection Management Course - All-Source Intelligence Analysis Course - Indications and Warning Intelligence - Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment - Target Development and Weaponeering Fundamentals - Operational-Strategic Level Planning - Advanced or Intermediate military level school graduate - Operational and C5ISR Assessment Experience - Mission Partner Environment Experience --- Source: [Apply at leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Suffolk-VA/Senior-ISR-Subject-Matter-Expert_R-00194022?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)