# ISR Subject Matter Expert **Company**: Leidos **Location**: Suffolk, VA **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00 **Category**: Defence & Intelligence **Industry**: Defence & Intelligence **Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Suffolk-VA/ISR-Subject-Matter-Expert_R-00193972?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c0baeec4-ae2 ## Description The Defence Sector at Leidos is seeking an ISR Subject Matter Expert to provide expert-level leadership, analysis, and operational support across Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) activities. The successful candidate will support senior leaders, Combatant Commands, and national-level intelligence organisations by delivering authoritative ISR expertise, multisource analysis, and high-impact operational assessments. **Primary Responsibilities:** - Provide planning, preparation, research, coordination, and execution of ISR-related tasks, delivering authoritative analysis and subject-matter expertise. - Develop and deliver detailed analytical reports, workflow visualisations, 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 organisations, authorities, and capabilities, ensuring alignment with joint and national intelligence frameworks. - Apply expert understanding of joint intelligence cycles to synchronise ISR planning, tasking, collection, analysis, and dissemination. - Analyse 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 4+ years related experience or Master's degree and 2+ years related experience. - Minimum 4 years supporting military operational activities; minimum 5 years Targeting experience. - C5ISRT (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) and Targeting Experience. - Experience developing target packages and target lists 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. - Deep understanding of the F2T2EA Cycle and the data tools and techniques utilised for each phase of targeting. - Analytical skills to assess targeting system performance and identify areas for improvement. - Working knowledge of U.S, NATO, and coalition partner targeting processes, procedures, and systems. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Active Top Secret with eligibility for CUI, NATO Secret, ACCMs, SCI, and SAPs. - Previous experience supporting operations within a Joint Air Operations Center, Joint Intelligence Operations Center, or comparable military organisation. - Experience supporting deliberate and dynamic targeting operations. - Experience supporting ISR collection management, intelligence requirements development, and intelligence gap identification. - Experience utilising multiple intelligence disciplines, including GEOINT, SIGINT, MASINT, HUMINT, and OSINT. - Familiarity with emerging ISR technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automated targeting applications. - Data Analyst background. - 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. - Operational and C5ISR Assessment Experience. - Mission Partner Environment Experience. **Pay Range:** $73,450.00 - $132,775.00 ## Skills ### Required - C5ISRT - Targeting - Intelligence Analysis - ISR - Mission Planning - Effects-Based Targeting - Automated Targeting Tools - F2T2EA Cycle - Data Analysis - Communication - Interviewing - Analytical Skills ### Nice to have - Top Secret Clearance - NATO Secret - ACCMs - SCI - SAPs - Joint Air Operations Center - Joint Intelligence Operations Center - Deliberate and Dynamic Targeting - ISR Collection Management - Intelligence Requirements Development - Intelligence Gap Identification - GEOINT - SIGINT - MASINT - HUMINT - OSINT - Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning - Automated Targeting Applications - Data Analyst Background - Collection Management Course - All-Source Intelligence Analysis Course - Indications and Warning Intelligence - JIPOE - Target Development and Weaponeering Fundamentals - 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/ISR-Subject-Matter-Expert_R-00193972?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)