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Defense Industry Analyst

GDIT College Park, MD On-site senior full-time

Salary

$111,155 - $150,385 per year

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Description

GDIT delivers critical all-source intelligence on foreign military and civilian cyber actors, their supporting infrastructure, and the broader ecosystems in which these capabilities operate.

The Defense Industry Analyst conducts comprehensive all-source analysis of foreign defense industrial programs, infrastructure, and capabilities that enable a nation to develop, equip, sustain, and employ its military forces.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct all-source analysis of foreign defense industrial programs, capabilities, and infrastructure supporting military force development and sustainment
  • Assess foreign research, development, acquisition, testing, evaluation, and production of weapon systems and military equipment
  • Evaluate defense industrial supply chains from raw materials to finished weapon systems, including industrial processes, control systems, design cycles, and surge capacity
  • Analyze cooperative arrangements with foreign defense industries and reliance on foreign technologies
  • Support the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP) through coordinated all-source analysis of foreign strategic and military industrial sectors
  • Assess threats across the full-threat spectrum, including cyber capabilities, strategic military systems, missile defense programs, domestic and transnational terrorism, and foreign intelligence operations
  • Identify DCIP-related threat knowledge gaps and intelligence shortfalls involving state and non-state cyber actors
  • Validate existing collection strategies, requirements, methodologies, and counterintelligence considerations
  • Develop indicators identifying intentions, capabilities, programs, and actions of potential threat actors targeting DCIP and associated networks
  • Produce all-source intelligence assessments on emerging threats to global undersea cable networks and associated infrastructure, including cable landing stations
  • Maintain foundational intelligence on foreign actors' use of undersea cable infrastructure and related industrial or technological dependencies

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
  • 401K with company match
  • Competitive pay and paid time off
  • Full flex work weeks where possible
  • Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
  • Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance

Skills

Required

  • Counterintelligence
  • Military Intelligence
  • Weapons Systems
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