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GEOINT Standards Developer - Imagery Standards – Senior Level
Clearance Required: TS/SCI
Minimum Years’ Experience: 12
Overall Assignment Description:
General Responsibilities:
- Responsible for providing specialized advice and assistance on complex technical projects. Is widely known in his/her field of expertise. Independently performs a variety of system analysis, design and/or engineering tasks that are broad and innovative in nature. Participates in national level steering and advisory groups, panels and committees. Advises/mentors technical personnel at all levels and reviews work for technical accuracy. Guides the strategic growth of scientific imagery programs.
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on development of Still and/or Motion Imagery Standards with the objective of facilitating compliance and interoperability through integration of NSG & ASG requirements while reducing technical and schedule risk in the following functional areas:
- Still Imagery standards including, but not exclusive to:
- NITF
- NITF Extensions (MIE4NITF, SIDD, SICD, etc.)
- NATO Imagery STANAGs (NSIF, for instance)
- Motion Imagery standards & phenomenologies including, but not exclusive to:
- Electro Optical (EO)
- Large Volume Motion Imagery (LVMI)/Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI)
- Infrared Motion Imagery Standards (IR)
- Multispectral Imaging (MSI)
- Hyper spectral imaging (HSI)
- Ensure current and future GEOINT standards will satisfy capability requirements at the program and strategic level across NGA, the NSG, and ASG.
- Develop capability-based standards profiles & reference architectures to enable search, discovery, access, and retrieval, integrated intelligence, and advanced analytics are enabled.
- Still Imagery standards including, but not exclusive to:
Required Skills and Tasks:
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- Able to develop & use more complex concepts & processes
- Performs multiple tasks at specialist level
- Leads multiple Junior/Mid-level personnel
- May be recognized as a SME
- Evaluates & recommends new technology & processes based upon cost, risk, mission
Work Level:
- Leadership
- Management
- Key member of team
- Oversees or monitors task(s)
- Provides issue resolution
Education/Certification Required:
- Master’s degree plus 4, Bachelor’s degree plus 6 year experience, Associates degree plus 8 years’ experience, or a minimum of 8 years’ experience, in relevant field
Desired Skills:
- Understanding of Imaging Process
- Concepts of sensors & how they work
- Concepts of sensor collection parameters
- Understanding of Imaging Workflow
- Concepts of how imagery data flows from collection platform to exploitation system to archive
- Concepts of what processing or metadata additions can occur at the various steps in workflow
- Understanding of GEOINT Standards core components
- File formats
- NITF is a byte-offset format so what are the pros/cons
- Be aware of other formats ISOBMFF, HDF5, TIFF/GEOTIFF, etc.
- Metadata models vs Metadata encoding
- Understand abstract content models & organization from purpose perspective
- Sensor info, platform info, coordinate reference systems, security info, discovery & retrieval info, etc.
- Understand various metadata encodings (e.g., NITE TRE/SDE, KLV, XML, JSON, binary, etc.) and their pros/cons
- Understand abstract content models & organization from purpose perspective
- Image formats vs Image compression
- Understand various ways to represent 2-D pixel array data, band/pixel interleaving, etc.
- Understand various image compression techniques, pros/cons of each, typically where each is used & why
- Dissemination Protocols
- Block FTP vs Streaming protocols
- Encapsulation in IP or other server/client protocols
- Clear & concise technical writing to unambiguously convey technical concepts & guidance
- Clearly define scope, define all terms in use, leverage EARS to convey requirements, use active voice, etc.
- Have ability to write technical GEOINT standards with inputs from other SMEs
- Be proactive in finding information or understanding new topics
- Ask questions, develop understanding to level that you can convey concepts to others
- Consistently demonstrate willingness to learn & follow through
- Facilitate technical discussions with community experts
- Scope topic appropriately, keep discussions on track to achieve desired outcome
- Generate & present slides to all levels of audiences regarding GEOINT standards
- File formats