Chemical and Biological Warfare Analyst

2 days ago

Reston, Virginia, United States Applied Research Associates (ARA) Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Chemical and Biological Warfare Analyst to join our team at Applied Research Associates (ARA). As a key member of our organization, you will play a critical role in identifying, characterizing, and assessing global chemical and biological threats and associated proliferation and procurement trends.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide timely and accurate assessments of adversary chemical and biological threats, WMD programs, and weapons-related S&T developments to Defense, Service, and Interagency audiences.
  • Contribute to Defense Intelligence Enterprise deliverables, including foundational assessments, warning reports, technical briefings, and other analytic documents.
  • Collaborate with the Intelligence Community, Defense Department, national labs, and academia to address WMD-related threat issues.
  • Conduct all-source analytic production of foreign doctrine, strategy, plans, policies, objectives, goals, intentions, command authorities, force structures, and resources relating to current, emerging, and future CW and BW programs and capabilities.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, sciences, or related field.
  • 5-7 years of experience creating intelligence reports, assessments, or deliverables directly related to adversary WMD programs.
  • Demonstrate current familiarity – experience within the last two years – identifying, assessing, and developing products associated with adversary WMD programs and/or developments.
  • Tangible experience with intelligence analysis, including employing multi-INT databases to develop analytic assessments and briefings.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of foreign chemical and biological programs, strategic weapons developments, and WMD-related proliferation and procurement.
  • Practical understanding of the technical requirements – both established and improvised – necessary to weaponize chemical and biological 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 chemical and biological weapons use and CBRN contaminated environments.
  • Working familiarity with established Intelligence Community directives, standards, and tradecraft documents.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively within or lead a team of peers, as well as excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
  • 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.
  • Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam.
Preferred 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.
  • Understanding of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, DIA, and Service intelligence production centers.
  • Ability to consult authoritatively with analytic teams on a variety of technical topics that include, but are not limited to, toxic industrial chemicals / materials, rocket fuels, infectious disease risks, foreign medical countermeasures programs, biosafety and biosecurity, and chemical / radiation health threats.
  • 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.
About Applied Research Associates (ARA)

Applied Research Associates (ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. Our company is committed to delivering innovative and effective solutions to our clients, and we are seeking a talented individual to join our team.

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