Naval Mission Senior Analyst

About the role

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. MITRE's National Security Sector supports the Department of the Navy and joint mission partners with independent analysis of future missions and capabilities. Naval Mission Futures identifies evidence-based gaps and options across Navy, Marine Corps, Combatant Command, and cross-Service missions. The Naval Mission Futures Senior Analyst is a senior individual contributor in a Part Time On Call role, supporting an enduring portfolio of defense studies and sponsor decisions.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct mission studies, operational and campaign analysis, and independent assessments addressing current and emerging Navy, Marine Corps, and joint needs across near-, mid-, and longer-term horizons.
• Synthesize evidence from wargames, exercises, experimentation, prior studies, lessons learned, and other authoritative sources; test methods, assumptions, data quality, and evidence sufficiency; and identify analytical deficiencies and corrective or supplemental work.
• Identify and prioritize mission gaps and opportunities in command and control, data, communications, integration, mission and systems engineering, requirements, prototyping, acquisition, and portfolios using campaign metrics and other objective methods.
• Use authorized intelligence and Intelligence Community engagement to assess adversary intent, strategies, capabilities, investments, vulnerabilities, and emerging technologies and their implications for U.S. missions.
• Relate findings to Geographic and Functional Combatant Command strategies, operational environments, and theater-specific or cross-cutting needs; identify implications for other Military Services.
• Review related Department of Defense research, experimentation, and capability investments; engage Navy and Marine Corps sponsors, operational users, Service laboratories, warfare centers, FFRDCs, UARCs, industry, and academia as appropriate.
• Produce concise research plans, interim findings, sponsor briefings, and supporting reports that distinguish supported conclusions from unresolved questions, explain limitations, and recommend follow-on analysis, experimentation, or technical investigation.

Requirements

• Requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 10 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Demonstrated senior-level experience planning, conducting, or leading defense mission studies, operational or campaign analyses, or independent assessments that informed government mission or capability decisions.
• Ability to evaluate analytical methods, assumptions, data, uncertainty, and evidence sufficiency; identify deficiencies in prior studies; and specify corrective or supplemental analysis.
• Deep working knowledge of Navy, Marine Corps, joint, or Combatant Command missions, operational environments, and capability needs.
• Ability to synthesize technical, operational, intelligence, and program evidence into prioritized mission gaps, defensible findings, and clear options for decision makers.
• Experience with requirements, mission or systems engineering,