Defense Industry Analyst

Title

Defense Industry Analyst

Quantico, VA

Required

TS/SCI CI Poly

• Conduct all-source analysis of foreign defense industrial programs, infrastructure, and capabilities supporting a foreign country's ability to develop, equip, sustain, and employ its military forces across basic, strategic, and military industrial sectors.
• Assess the research, development, acquisition, test, evaluation and production of foreign weapon systems and equipment; their associated facilities and output levels, knowledge of emerging and enabling technologies; and supporting industrial supply networks from raw materials to finished weapon systems.
• Analyze overall industrial organization, production processes, industrial control systems, design and surge capacities, cooperative arrangements with foreign defense industries and reliance on foreign technologies.
• Advise, assist, and support in the research and production of all-source counterintelligence analysis on foreign intelligence services intent and capability to exploit, sabotage, subvert, or otherwise disrupt supply chains for critical minerals, industrial minerals and alloys.

• Bachelor's degree in an area related to the labor category and 5 years of experience working in or analyzing critical minerals and materials supply chains and industries.
• Experience conducting global supply chain research, identifying sourcing opportunities, and assessing geopolitical market trends affecting rare earth battery material availability.
• Knowledge of emerging battery chemistries and lifecycle analysis.
• Display the ability to understand and analyze chemical and physical properties of metals and mineral compounds.
• Provide technical expertise on how these industries function, operate, new developments in the industry, and how malicious actors or adversaries can potentially exploit or disrupt supply chains.
• Current active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph required.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled