Contract Intelligence Analysts play a vital role in enhancing customer understanding of threats and supporting informed decision-making. By employing intelligence analysis, they help identify and recommend specific operational actions to advance threat mitigation efforts.
Key Responsibilities:
Contract analysts will be assigned a variety of core analytical tasks and projects, culminating in the creation of written deliverables. Their primary responsibilities include:
Research & Analysis: Conduct operational and strategic-level research and analysis. Analysts will review source reporting and raw intelligence to assess its value, relevance, and significance. They will communicate analytic assessments through intelligence products and oral briefings.
Threat Analysis: Apply analytic tradecraft to conduct in-depth examinations of threat variables. This analysis enhances operational actions, mitigation strategies, and intelligence processes, offering a comprehensive understanding of how threats impact specific areas of responsibility (AORs).
Domain Analysis (DA): Assess how environmental variables (EVs) influence known or emerging threats in a given domain. DA identifies shifts in the domain, highlights potential future scenarios, and identifies indicators that may affect threat issues or the FBI's capacity to mitigate them.
Document Production:
In addition to intelligence products, contract analysts may be called upon to produce official documentation, including but not limited to:
Electronic Communications (ECs): Used to document fact-based research findings, information receipts, or other key details unsuitable for formal intelligence products.
Letterhead Memoranda (LHMs) & Cables: Facilitate the sharing of information with external partners, including other government agencies, as well as state and local law enforcement.
Foreign Dissemination Requests (FDRs): Enable the dissemination of information to foreign partners. Information shared through LHMs, cables, or FDRs must be derived from official records, such as intelligence products or ECs.
Guidance & Collaboration:
Contract analysts may receive direction from Intelligence Analysts (IAs), Supervisory Intelligence Analysts (SIAs), or Unit Chiefs (UCs) regarding the development of ECs, LHMs, cables, and FDRs. This collaborative process ensures that information shared externally is accurate, relevant, and appropriately derived from official records.
Location:
100% Onsite at Chantilly, VA 20151.
Standard working hours
Minimum Qualifications:
Basic understanding of computer networking, basic understanding of TCP/IP and Networking Appliances.
Understanding or willingness to learn Cyber Criminal Infrastructure. (become a SME)
Passion for strategic analysis and production and report writing. (ability to adhere to a predefined style and usage guide)
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (the ability to take a prewritten formula and edit the formula to use different cells to retrieve data).
Ability to provide a generic cybercrime briefing using a premade PowerPoint presentation.
Ability to brief strategic products to executive management.
Ability to work independently with little to no guidance. (the position required you to independently research topics to create strategic products and inform policymakers on upcoming threats within the landscape.
Qualify under FBI's FLP at the linguist or monitor certification level
OR
Meet the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE)
Have one of the following certifications:
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI)
CyberSec First Responder (CFR)
Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)
Cloud+
PenTest+
Security+
Network+
GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
GIAC Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP)
Cisco Cybersecurity Specialty Cert (SCYBER)
Or an industry-recognized certification equivalent to any of the above, which must be justified by the vendor
Nice to Have:
Prior professional services or federal consulting experience
Take2 is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.