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Orbital Warfare Principal Intelligence Analyst, NSIC

Compensation
$130,461–$169,604/year

Job Description

To submit your resume for this Direct Hire opportunity click here. For additional information on other USSF direct hire opportunities visit the Air Force Civilian Careers Space Force website and follow USSF on LinkedIn.

Major Duties

The United States Space Force (USSF) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is searching for an Orbital Warfare Principal Intelligence Analyst to support NSIC (GG-0801-14). Description: The 2nd Intelligence Analysis Squadron within the National Space Intelligence Center is seeking an Orbital Warfare Principal Intelligence Analyst (GG-0801-14). This flight is responsible for assessing characteristics, performance, limitations, vulnerabilities, tactics and engagements of air and space-based anti-satellite weapons, providing integrated, predictive, counterspace threat intelligence for military operations, force modernization, and policy making communities. In this role, you will be responsible for planning, organizing, training, and directing teams of analysts comprised of intelligence and various engineering backgrounds to ensure that all-source technical intelligence analysis and production complies with legal and regulatory requirements and meets customer needs. You will lead complex counterspace threat analysis, applying innovative techniques and advanced technologies to solve unique intelligence problems. You will be responsible for advising and providing counsel to ~12 civilian, military, and contract employees regarding policies, procedures, and management directives. Additionally, this role may include limited supervisory responsibilities, to include but not limited to providing performance evaluation inputs for your team members, participating in flight hiring actions, etc. Qualified applicants will have experience analyzing and producing orbital warfare threat intelligence assessments, exemplary tradecraft and analysis skills, and exceptional leadership and communication skills. Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate will serve as a national expert on orbital warfare threat intelligence for NSIC and the Intelligence Community (IC). In this role, you will provide technical leadership to flight analysts, advise management on project assignments, and mentor junior personnel. You will ensure quality assurance and oversight for analysts conducting independent research and multi-source intelligence analysis on foreign counterspace systems. This position requires advanced mastery of orbital warfare principles and methodologies-gained through professional or equivalent educational experience-to assess foreign space-based threats and produce finished intelligence assessments. Candidates must possess expert knowledge of space system employment and foreign counterspace capabilities, alongside a firm understanding of the U.S. Intelligence Community's organization and mission. Exceptional writing and oral communication skills are essential for preparing formal reports and delivering executive briefings. Key Skills and Abilities: 1. Professional knowledge and mastery of a broad range of engineering, mathematics, statistical analysis, modeling/simulation, and/or other scientific concepts, principles, standards, methods, techniques, practices, and procedures related to scientific and technical intelligence analysis of foreign counterspace threats. 2. Expert counterspace or subsystems design and or operations. Knowledge and mastery of a comprehensive range of intelligence research and collection methods, techniques, and practices to use multi source intelligence information systems to capture data to make recommendations in developing intelligence capabilities, new hypothesis and theories, and threat assessments to interpret policy and commit resources. 3. Knowledge of advanced analytical tradecraft principles, concepts, and methods to produce detailed analysis of complex information/situations attained from multiple sources for the characterization, analysis and reporting of counter space threats. 4. Mastery of agency, USSF, DoW, and national-level doctrine, regulations, policies, guidelines, requirements, and initiatives related to assign programs and/or projects. Knowledge of the National Intelligence Community, Joint partners, DoW structure, organizations, and mission/functions, inter-relationships and operations. Knowledge of Intelligence Community Directives (ICDs), and the Standards, Guides, and Best Practices of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). 5. Ability to lead a team in establishing and executing a production timeline, define analytic mission area direction, and effectively manage team workload. Skilling conducting unbiased complex research, communication, identifying appropriate available systems / data sources, and producing collection requirement assessments that answer specific tasks to link and leverage agency capabilities in support of consumers, customers, and clients. 6. Skill in communicating effectively with others, both orally and in writing, in working out solutions to problems or questions related to the work, writing clear and concise intelligence products, and delivering written and / or verbal presentations to senior level audiences for decision making purposes.

Qualifications

The 0801 series has an individual occupational requirement that must be met and can be viewed here. In addition to the above requirements you can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 4th section titled Professional and Scientific Positions.

Promotion Potential

GG-None

How You Will Be Evaluated

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here: Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

Benefits

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Who Can Apply

  • Open to the public

Required Documents

Resume: You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide: Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information: Job title Detailed duties and accomplishments Employer's name and address Supervisor's name and phone number Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.) Hours per week Salary, if applicable Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.

How to Apply

Do not email applications. To submit your resume for this Direct Hire opportunity click here. PLEASE NOTE: It is the applicant's responsibility to verify that information entered and/or uploaded, (i.e., resume) is received, accurate, and submitted by the closing date. You may verify your documents have been processed with your application package successfully. You can access your USAJOBS account to do so by clicking here. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan.

What to Expect Next

For additional information on other USSF direct hire opportunities visit the Air Force Civilian Careers Space Force website and follow USSF on LinkedIn.

Other Information

Employed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click here for more information. Disabled veteran leave is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more. For more information, click here.

About the Agency

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This Job Opportunity Announcement (JOA) will be used to form a pool of qualified applicants who will be considered for direct hire vacancies as they become available. To learn more about the United States Space Force Mission click here

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Job Details

Category
Business & Finance
Employment Type
Contract
Location
Dayton, Ohio
Posted
May 13, 2026, 09:15 PM
Compensation
$130,461 - $169,604 per year

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