Denial and Deception Analyst, Skill Level 2

Position Responsibilities

• Conduct all-source analysis of foreign state and non-state actor denial and deception capabilities, activities, programs, and tradecraft.
• Analyze adversary efforts to mislead observers through manipulation, distortion, concealment, falsification, or selective disclosure of information.
• Assess adversary attempts to control what U.S. intelligence collection assets observe, acquire, or interpret.
• Analyze foreign programs designed to impair, degrade, misdirect, or neutralize U.S. intelligence collection across intelligence disciplines.
• Assess camouflage, concealment, decoys, false indicators, signature management, and related deception methods.
• Produce written intelligence assessments, reports, briefings, and analytic products.
• Support customer-driven RFIs and MCIA production requirements.
• Collect, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and integrate complex data from multiple sources.
• Identify intelligence gaps and recommend or support collection requirements.
• Collaborate with MCIA and Intelligence Community counterparts.
• Apply structured analytic techniques to test assumptions, challenge judgments, and strengthen analytic conclusions.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• U.S. citizenship.
• At least 8 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to denial and deception, all-source analysis, military deception, foreign military capabilities, intelligence collection risks, or related intelligence problem sets.
• At least a portion of the relevant experience must be within the last 2 years.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Demonstrated comprehensive mission knowledge and skills relevant to the labor category.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, or technically advanced.
• Demonstrated ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with IC members on information sharing, collection, analytic disputes, and conflict resolution.
• Ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive defense intelligence products.
• Ability to identify intelligence gaps and support collection requirement development.
• Ability to work on-site at MCIA, Quantico, VA.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Marine Corps, DoD, Service Intelligence Center, or Intelligence Community missions.
• Familiarity with foreign military deception, denial and deception tradecraft, MILDEC, OPSEC deception planning, or collection vulnerability analysis.
• Familiarity with IC analytic standards and intelligence production review processes.
• Experience using structured analytic techniques such as ACH, Devil’s Advocacy, Red Team Analysis, High-Impact/Low-Impact Analysis, or Alternative Futures Analysis.