Counterintelligence Analyst-DARPA

Description

Position Overview

DARPAs All-Source intelligence/counterintelligence (CI) program includes detecting, identifying, assessing, and, in conjunction with the assigned CI support activity, analyzing information on adversary intentions and capabilities. This may include developing programs, systems, and procedures designed to counter foreign intelligence collection efforts and activities of foreign entities, including sabotage and terrorist activities.

All-Source/CI analysts recommend cost-effective protective measures and countermeasures for DARPA personnel, programs, and activities. All-Source/CI Analyst will enable DARPAs organic intelligence/CI program to realize the positive attributes inherent in combining IC resources with a trained/qualified internal multi-disciplined security team in applying All-Source Intelligence/CI context to protecting DARPA programs. This nascent internal structure will develop or adapt existing programs, systems, and procedures to proactively counter foreign intelligence collection efforts and activities, including sabotage and terrorist activities.

The All-Source/CI Analyst will perform the following responsibilities:

• Determine essential elements of information, and conduct activities to detect, identify, assess, exploit, and proactively counter or neutralize hostile intelligence collection, sabotage, and terrorist activities
• Plan special analytical projects in response to client assignments which include analytical approach, schedule, personnel requirements, data collection, travel, assessment criteria, and costs
• Research and collect required data, perform analysis, and summarize findings in response to client requests
• Compile detailed reports of analysis clearly defining the problem or issue, factors considered, findings, and provide clear, concise conclusions and recommendations
• Develop innovative and proactive analytical methodologies, refining existing program protection analytical methodologies to meet evolving program needs
• Provide intelligence/CI input and assist PSRs, PMs, and SETAs in developing Program Protection Plans
• Review and provide comments on Program Protection Plans, Test Plans, OPSEC Plans, and other planning documentation as required
• Assist Technical Office management, PMs, SETAs, and security personnel in performing SAP lifecycle threat analysis
• Apply analytical methodologies to existing programs to review, and readdress, if necessary, their protection needs to remain consistent with changes in diplomatic, political, and military environments
• Perform short-notice contingency and exposure analysis, summarizing implications, and providing viable responses and recommended courses of action
• Work with individual program management personnel to assist in analyzing and developing solutions to unique or difficult CI-related issues
• Review organizational mission statements and associated publicly available information for inconsistencies which may reveal sensitive information
• Review, analyze, and, where appropriate, make recommendations to long-term program protection policies and practices
• Provide intelligence and CI threat data and analysis to support assessments and surveys of agency-wide OPSEC programs
• Assist DARPA PMs in identification of program CPI and assist in the development of agency-wide and program-specific OPSEC plans, and make recommendations for additions or changes where appropriate
• Participate, as appropriate, in program management and planning meetings, and working sessions to provide an intelligence/CI perspective
• Receive information of CI value from technical security inspections, foreign travel reporting, international relations/security, visitor control, AT/FP, or other sources of potential FIE or CI related activity
• Prepare and deliver comprehensive briefings to increase CI awareness and to inform senior DARPA leadership
• Establish lines of communication and professional relationships with other Federal and DoD agencies within the IC
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Required Skills (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)

• Understanding the Intelligence Community composition, including the roles and responsibilities of the IC components; methodologies inherent in Insider Threats; elicitation methods and procedures; counter-elicitation methods and procedures; CI indicators of motivation; methods of information collection and information transmittal; the basics and methodologies employed in Competitive Intelligence and Economic Espionage practices; foreign intelligence/CI threat data and the agencies acquiring it (including general, site specific, and technical);
  
  implications to DARPA program efforts from various threats; and understanding, prioritizing, and counteracting threats.
• Attend meetings (either locally or out-of-area) and create meeting summaries or trip reports
• Prepare and submit meeting minutes on an as-required basis
• Prepare/present briefings, incorporating graphics (if appropriate) for/to SID and DARPA leaders
• Prepare various security forms associated…