Irregular Warfare Analyst

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Leidos National Security Sector (NSS) is seeking a highly skilled mission-driven Irregular Warfare (IW) Operations Analyst to support APOLLO/OPIAS in Tampa FL. This role supports joint interagency and special operations forces including PSYOP executing Irregular Warfare and influence operations globally as part of Operations in the Information Environment (OIE). The IW Operations Analyst will synchronize operational planning targeting and information environment activities across multiple domains to enable campaign in competition crisis and conflict. This position is on a future contract pending award announcement.

Possible locations for this position are as follows:

MacDill (Tampa FL)

Al Udeid (Qatar)

Fort Meade (Maryland)

Northcom (Colorado Springs CO)

Camp Humphreys (Korea)

Arifjan (Kuwait)

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (Hawaii)

Fort Eisenhower (Georgia)

Offutt AFB (Omaha NE)

Naval Operating Base Norfolk (Virginia)

Southcom (Doral FL)

JB San Antonio (Texas)

Stuttgart (Germany)

Vicenza (Italy)

Tyndall AFB (Florida)

Key Responsibilities:

• Support joint force interagency and partner nation planning teams in the development and execution of irregular warfare and OIE (IW) campaigns and operations.
• Integrate unconventional warfare proxy conflict foreign internal defense counterinsurgency and influence operations into operational design and campaign planning.
• Synchronize influence operations military deception (MILDEC) operations security (OPSEC) electronic warfare (EW) cyber operations and information environment activities into irregular warfare plans.
• Conduct irregular warfare analysis of adversary networks key nodes critical vulnerabilities and strategic narratives.
• Apply analytic methodologies including F3EAD CARVER social network analysis and targeting frameworks to support IW /OIE planning.
• Employ analytic tools such as Palantir Analyst Notebook and intelligence databases to inform IW campaign development.
• Coordinate with interagency and intelligence community stakeholders to ensure synchronized irregular warfare efforts across competition and conflict.
• Supports planning coordination integration and synchronization of non-lethal effects and offensive cyberspace operations (OCO) in support of CCMD operations. Assists in synchronizing OCO and defensive cyberspace operations (DCO) support into the COCOM Joint Fires / Targeting process
• Supports the integration of non-lethal unconventional and information capabilities into the targeting cycle.
• Analyze assess and provide input to planning and operational requirements as a SME in targeting operations anti-terrorism planning Offensive Cyber Operations and other information operations.
• Utilize experience conducting intelligence nodal analysis and critical vulnerability assessments of enemy networks to identify and nominate key nodes for kinetic and non-kinetic options thereby disrupting or eliminating enemy centers of gravity.
• Provide IW and Unconventional Warfare UW OIE and intelligence doctrine operations policy and authorities subject matter expertise and integration of lessons learned to support senior leader decision making.
• Develop validate coordinate and integrate IW/ OIE functional plans in conjunction with higher headquarters components DoD USG interagency and partner nations. Review and provide coordinated input to strategic and operational plans and orders analysis reports policy reports requests for forces DoD directives and guidance and other documentation that supports strategic operations research analysis and policy development. Conduct and consolidate foreign partner nation representative coordination and planning to develop foreign partner nation capability and capacity.
• Generate irregular warfare / OIE concepts into all contingency plans and operations plans and ensure that multi-domain capabilities and functions are dynamic deliberate and address crisis action planning processes.
• Leverage expert knowledge in counterintelligence and human intelligence activities to coordinate and collaborate with DoD and Service counterintelligence organizations the Joint Staff and other federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies on a daily basis regarding matters of mutual interest; review and contribute to military deception planning processes.
• Serve as a planning SME that supports multiple planning efforts as an irregular warfare (IW) OIE operational planning officer and provide quality control of deliberate crisis action and contingency planning
• Provide expert mission analysis analytic problem solving and assessment skills; creatively use information systems and Information Forces and Info activities integrate with interagency and intelligence community (IC); develop innovative concepts to counter adversarial use of information in the Cyber and electromagnetic spectrum; and consider significant or key cultural aspects that affect operational and tactical planning security and risk assessments.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent operational experience
• 8 years of operational experience in Irregular Warfare Information Operations Special Operations or Influence Operations
• Expertise in irregular warfare disciplines: unconventional warfare counterinsurgency proxy conflict partner engagement foreign internal defense and information environment operations
• Experience integrating non-kinetic capabilities into operational and campaign-level planning
• Experience applying advanced targeting analysis methodologies (F3EAD CARVER SNA)
• Familiarity with SAP STO and ACCM capabilities and their integration into IW campaigns
• Excellent briefing coordination and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of intelligence community processes databases and analytic tools
• Active TS /SCI security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in national security strategy or military operations
• Graduate of Joint or Service Irregular Warfare professional military education programs
• Prior experience with USSOCOM SOCPAC CENTCOM INDOPACOM or CCMD J39
• Experience with interagency partners such as CIA State Department FBI DHS or Treasury
• Knowledge of JOPP MDMP MCPP and joint operational design processes

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Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.