Targeting Analyst, Lead

About the role

As an expert in defense missions, your unique skill set inspires you to think bigger, push further, and ask questions others don’t. We need your extensive industry knowledge and advisory skills to help solve some of our clients’ most complex problems and find solutions that keep our nation safe.

Responsibilities

• Conduct advanced analysis using unique datasets, specialized tools, and network-mapping techniques to identify key enemy centers of gravity and expose opportunities for operational advantage.
• Apply targeting methodologies to understand threat systems, develop target sets, and support the employment of both kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities.
• Perform Target System Analysis to assess how adversary systems function, identify critical nodes, and determine vulnerabilities.
• Support planning and execution through detailed weaponeering analysis, combat assessment, and collateral damage considerations, ensuring recommendations align with operational objectives and established standards.
• Directly inform targeting decisions and help commanders achieve precise, effective, and responsibly executed effects on the battlespace.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience conducting targeting analysis.
• Experience with all-source intelligence or operational intelligence support.
• Experience using unique datasets, analytic platforms, or targeting tools to identify networks, nodes, or centers of gravity.
• Experience performing Target System Analysis (TSA), weaponeering, combat assessment, or collateral damage analysis.
• Experience developing target materials, target folders, or target development products in support of operational planning.
• Knowledge of adversary threat networks, system functions, and vulnerabilities relevant to joint or combined operations.
• Ability to conduct complex network analysis to identify critical pathways, relationships, and opportunities for operational effects.
• TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 14+ years of experience conducting targeting analysis or Master’s degree with 10+ years of experience conducting targeting analysis.

Skills

• Nice if you have: Experience applying joint or service-specific targeting methodologies, including D3A, F3EAD, JIPTL, or Joint Targeting Cycle processes.
• Knowledge of kinetic and non-kinetic effects, their employment considerations, and integration into mission planning.
• Ability to communicate analytic findings clearly to planners, operators, and decision-makers.

Benefits

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role.
Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.