Collections & PED (Junior)

Delta Solutions and Strategies is seeking a Collections & PED (Junior) to potentially join our team in Langley AFB, VA.This position will provide advisory and consultation on collection programs policy, systems, and tasks within the disciplines of GEOINT, MASINT, CYBER, SIGINT, OSINT, and HUMINT to support A2 collection enterprise management efforts.
*** Position expected to begin in December 2023 or January 2024 ***

What you will be doing:

• Support with collection subject matter expertise at a variety of working groups and forums.
• Provide support for all tasks associated with AF CWGs relating to Targeting, Analysis, Collections, PED, Foreign Language, and other ISR-related missions.
• Provide assistance to support CWG input staffing actions and related meetings to appropriate Special Programs Office (SPO) or PMO organizations as tasks mature and technologies are validated for integration into AF systems baselines.
• Provide technical expertise to identify, analyze, experiment, and apply leading edge technologies to satisfy collection management tasks and future requirements for Intelligence Data Handling Systems (IDHS), training, manpower, and policies as they relate to Globally Integrated Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (GIISR) Core Function Support Plan (CFSP) and other planning and integration efforts and priorities/needs of the USAF.
• Ensure required tasks are addressed at technical, policy, training, and manpower working groups, interchange meetings, and other technical reviews as scheduled to collaborate with unified CCMDs, USAF MAJCOMs, Government labs, academia, and industry.
• Identify tasks for future capabilities and analyze tradecraft, manpower, training, policies, and Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) tasks and document any identified deficiencies to develop risk assessments and compliance checks, document integration issues, identify existing duplication of functionality, and correct or give Courses of Action (COA).
• Provide expert advice to support concept development for GIISR Core Function Team (CFT) capabilities supporting highly contested environments in coordination with AF, Joint, sister-Service, and Coalition partner transformation activities.
• Assist with USAF experimentation, innovation, operational/technical assessment, and testing efforts supporting new air, space, and cyberspace collection management-related operational concepts, processes, and technologies.
• Perform analysis of personnel trends, collection tasks definition, and tasks analysis to gather tasks from Program Management Offices (PMOs), Joint Staff, CCMDs, USAF MAJCOMs, and Government labs, including tasks derived from the Joint Capabilities Integration Development System (JCIDS) or subsequent DoD tasks frameworks.
• Evaluate collection management tools and developmental and prototype collection management software (e.g., COUGAR) interaction and integration with service systems to identify compatibility issues, integration issues, interoperability issues, and CONOPS.
• Attend multiple daily and weekly coordination meetings with HAF and HQ ACC counterparts, capability developers, and operational users.
• Host and attend multiple workshops and working groups, then provide after action and trip reports to detail avenues for Orchestration advancements and inform military and DAF Civilian decision-makers.
• Attend capability working groups, seminars, and demonstrations, then provide after-action and trip reports for planning, execution, demonstration, and working group events.

What you will need:

• Experience with AOC ISR collection management strategies, planning, execution, and assessment processes to perform collection research and be knowledgeable in program management of the discipline specific programs.
• TS/SCI Security Clearance. 

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