Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE) Intelligence, Surveillance with Security Clearance

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Department Summary:

Within MITRE's Engineering and Analysis Center, the Intelligence Mission Enablement Department enables informed decision-making by integrating intelligence analysis competencies and tradecraft, systems engineering, advanced analytics, and AI to solve complex national security challenges. We help sponsors frame mission problems, assess risks, and deliver evidence-based recommendations that inform strategy, operations, and policy. We ensure core tradecraft remains cohesive, scalable, and responsive to broader Intelligence Community (IC) priorities.

Roles & Responsibilities :
In this role you will serve as a Defense Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance (ISR) systems engineer and operational intelligence targeting domain expert to the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Intelligence and Security (OUSW(I&S)). You will provide technical and operational targeting intelligence domain expertise to enable the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE) to deliver timely and actionable intelligence information in support of future war fighting concepts designed to achieve survivable, rapid, and overwhelming long range fires capabilities where future Department of War (DOW) weapon systems will leverage DOW and IC intelligence capabilities to integrate space-based data to improve lethality, speed, and scalability.

Operational targeting intelligence experience is crucial to contributing to OUSW(I&S)'s oversight of DOW experimentation efforts across the Military Services and designated Defense Agencies as they plan and conduct exercises and demonstrations enabling all-domain fires from distributed positions by integrating C2, platforms, sensors, shooters, sustainers, and weapons systems in a joint kill chain and kill web. In this role you will work closely and collaboratively with a diverse joint team comprised of government, FFRDC, systems engineering technical advisory (SETA) contractors, and related partner organizations.

You will be part of a high-performance MITRE systems engineering and operational targeting intelligence team.

Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Management Science/Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Business Systems Management; or relevant national security field) and at least 10 years of experience in diverse War technical or military intelligence domain roles with strong leadership and management abilities

* Experience as a senior staff officer serving at the Pentagon on the Office of the Secretary of War staff, and/or Military Service headquarters staff, and/or the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and/or the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

* Experience collaborating and interacting with senior-level Department of War military officers and senior executives

* Experience with the Department of War Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) processes for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) analytical systems, processing environments, or other user-focused capabilities

* Experience with the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE) space domain and related capabilities.

* Experience in technical or operational consulting roles, advising executive government leaders, and demonstrating the highest degree of professional and diplomatic skills in advocating technology and program directions

* Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communications as demonstrated via interacting with technical staff, analysts, and operators ranging from junior-level contributors to senior executives

* Demonstrated skills and a commitment to building and sustaining high-performance teams, achieving team goals, growing trust, and collaboration

* Demonstrated success in providing sponsors with the data, analysis, and strategies required to address critical issues, setting, and meeting strategic objectives, and advancing short and…