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Space / Counter-Space Analyst

MISSION ONE
Chantilly, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/13/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/11/2027
Benefits:
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Training & development
  • Vision insurance
Position Overview
Mission One is seeking a Mid-Level Space / Counter-Space SME to conduct all-source intelligence analysis of space capabilities, operations, and emerging threats. The analyst will assess adversary doctrine, strategy, communications, collection capabilities, platforms, launch and assembly capabilities, weapons, dual-use systems, vulnerabilities, and emerging technologies while collaborating with engineers, scientists, technical experts, and Intelligence Community partners.
The analyst will support three primary mission areas: Intelligence Requirements Coordination (IRC), Intelligence Mission Integration, and Intelligence Analysis.
Key Responsibilities
  • Intelligence Requirements Coordination (IRC)
    • Support intelligence requirements by coordinating development, collection management, tracking, deconfliction, and advocacy across the IC. Support PIR and RFI development, requirements coordination, access facilitation, gap analysis, crisis planning, CONOPs, intelligence annexes, wargaming, and dashboard management.
  • Intelligence Mission Integration
    • Synchronize intelligence activities across the intelligence cycle to support operational leads and mission decision-making. Integrate IC analysis, collection, and expertise for threat warning, counterspace operations, acquisition, exercises, anomaly resolution, emergency response, and continuity operations. Develop threat estimates using JIPOE, time-sensitive analytics, collection strategies, and situational-awareness products.
  • Intelligence Analysis
    • Conduct all-source analysis supporting decision-making, mission assurance, and system survivability. Analyze foreign, cyber, counterintelligence, and technical threats to equities; assess impacts to space, ground, and information environments; develop threat capability and vulnerability assessments; and support red teaming, alternative-futures analysis, dashboards, and senior-level intelligence production.
Required Qualifications
  • Minimum eight (8) years of relevant professional experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
  • Experience with space/counter-space intelligence, IC missions, intelligence requirements, mission integration, or technical threat analysis.
  • Experience conducting intelligence analysis and producing decision-quality analytic products.
  • Ability to assess complex, incomplete, and technically advanced information and communicate clear analytic judgments.
  • Demonstrated knowledge in Intelligence Requirements Coordination, Intelligence Mission Integration, and Intelligence Analysis.
  • Active security clearance required.
Qualifications
  • Experience with threat assessments, vulnerability analysis, JIPOE, collection strategy, red teaming, alternative futures, or intelligence dashboards.
  • Experience collaborating across the Intelligence Community and multiple intelligence disciplines.
  • Ability to produce concise defense intelligence products for senior leaders and operational decision-makers.

Salary : $120,000 - $220,000

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