Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Analyst

The Capabilities, Analysis and Development (CAD) division of Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) has an outstanding opportunity for an exceptional Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Analyst with experience identifying, characterizing, and assessing global WMD- and CBRN-related threats, developments, and trends. The right candidate will provide Defense, Service, and Interagency audiences with timely and accurate assessments of adversary WMD programs, strategic threats, and weapons-related S&T developments. This person will routinely contribute to Defense Intelligence Enterprise deliverables, including but not limited to foundational assessments, warning reports, technical briefings, and other analytic documents. The right candidate will also collaborate with the Intelligence Community, Defense Department, national labs, and academia to address WMD-related threat issues. The WMD Analyst provides guidance to less experienced staff, reviews the work of others, authoritatively contributes to multi-functional analytic teams, and maintains currency in understanding relevant WMD-related technologies, trends, and threats. The position is expected to understand and articulate official government analytic positions during customer engagements and represent Defense Intelligence Enterprise analytic units as directed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience conducting intelligence cycle functions and/or creating intelligence reports, assessments, or deliverables; or 12 years of experience in lieu of a degree
• Working familiarity with established Intelligence Community directives, standards, and tradecraft documents
• Ability to communicate complex analyses at a level comprehensible to diverse military audiences and senior-level government representatives.
• Ability to clearly express in writing technical analysis results and program characterizations
• Demonstrated knowledge of state nuclear, biological, and/or chemical (NBC) programs, strategic weapons developments, and WMD-related proliferation and procurement
• Practical understanding of the technical requirements – both established and improvised – necessary to weaponize NBC materials
• Understanding of global technology control, arms-control, nonproliferation, and threat reduction efforts associated with combating WMD
• Experience characterizing and assessing consequence management variables associated with NBC weapon use and CBRN contaminated environments
• Active TS/SCI clearance
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced degree and/or technical training applicable to the WMD problem set
• Military or defense-related experience and working familiarity with strategies, policies, and plans that enable defense against CBRN threats and prevent the proliferation of WMD
• Experience integrating intelligence and information that informs and enables CWMD exercise planning and execution
• Understanding of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, DIA, and Service intelligence production centers
• Experience participating in and leading interagency CWMD, nuclear security, and/or counterproliferation forums and working groups
• Experience effectively devising, utilizing, and communicating methodological approaches to complex problem sets
• Familiarity working with counterproliferation-related and S&T analytic centers within the DOD, IC and/or Interagency
  
  

Company Information

Applied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 1200 professionals. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership fosters greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please visit our website at www.ara.com.

Please apply at www.careers.ara.com for the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Analyst position.