Target Digital Network Analyst, All Levels (2024-0159)

Acclaim Technical Services•Columbia, MD

5d•$100,006 - $250,016•Onsite

About The Position

Acclaim Technical Services (ATS), founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. As an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow. This role is within the Defense & Homeland Security Division, working in Annapolis Junction, MD. The Target Digital Network Analyst (TDNA) will conduct advanced analysis of collection and open-source data to generate insights and leads, ensure target continuity, profile targets and their activities, and develop techniques to gain additional target information. Responsibilities include maintaining appropriate databases for targeting, tasking, and analysis, identifying intelligence gaps to tailor current collection or enable new collection, and employing multiple analysis disciplines such as pattern recognition against targets' communications, network usage, and digital footprints. The role requires applying knowledge of IC needs and missions, collaborating with government, military, and contractor personnel to develop shared understandings, and using innate curiosity and analytical talent to form hypotheses, critically assess and choose analysis techniques, then query, merge, enrich, evaluate, and pivot within data to attain and share insights. Findings, including any new tradecraft developed, will be distilled, documented, contextualized, and shared with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI with polygraph
Relevant experience requires aspects of Intelligence Analysis (e.g., target development, social network analysis, metadata analysis, knowledge of customer tool sets and databases).
In some cases, foreign language proficiency may also be used to satisfy experience requirements.

Responsibilities

Conduct advanced analysis of collection and open-source data to generate insights and leads
Ensure target continuity, profile targets and their activities, and develop techniques to gain additional target information
Maintain appropriate databases for targeting, tasking, and analysis
Identify intelligence gaps to tailor current collection or enable new collection to close the gaps
Employ multiple analysis disciplines such as pattern recognition against targets' communications, network usage and digital footprints
Apply your knowledge and understanding of IC needs and missions
Be part of a team, working together with government, military, and contractor personnel to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise
Apply your innate curiosity and analytical talent to form hypotheses, critically assess and choose analysis techniques, then query, merge, enrich, evaluate, and pivot within data to attain and share insights
Distill, document, contextualize and share your findings--including any new tradecraft that you develop--with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers