Description

ARA performs unique assessments from an adversarial perspective (Red). The DoD Red Team (NE-MAR) is one of the assessment programs within the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA)-Operational Nuclear Enterprise Support Directorate, Mission Assurance Department (NE-MA). The DTRA Red Team emulates the full spectrum of identified adversarial capabilities from a foreign intelligence entity and/or a terrorist organization by applying both critical and creative thinking to demonstrate exploitation of vulnerabilities of selected national command and control architectures. The Red Analysis Branch is the Center of Gravity for the DOD Red Team. It is the wellspring from which all requirements flow. It drives the OPTEMPO and challenges the status quo.

The Red Analysis Branch Manager - through experience, skill, contacts, and expertise – will work to shape the growth of the Red Cell’s strategic mission, to facilitate mission success and customer satisfaction while remaining commensurate with the goals, missions, and intent of the Division Chief, DTRA, and the goals of the organization as a whole. The Red Analysis Branch Manager serves as the primary point of contact for communication, outreach, collaboration, and partnership with external organizations within the Intelligence Community, the Inter-Agency Environment, and Special Operations Elements and commands and is responsible for the integration of these communities into operations and planning. The Red Analysis Branch Manager will manage, develop and produce project plans for all new projects brought online through the program, integrated in the process from beginning to end – including initial engagement and shaping of partner organization expectations, OPLANS, and legal review. The Red Analysis Branch Manager oversees all other aspects of red team operations, including answering all RFIs from analysts and customers, requiring access to and in-depth knowledge of classified systems and the capability to ascertain the importance to properly filter all inside knowledge away from the requestor, ensuring that the integrity of the Red Team construct is maintained. Additionally, the Red Analysis Branch Manager must ensure that all analysts remain abreast of all current trends in threat emulation and adversary TTPS, and coordinate with external organizations to facilitate training, briefings, and collaboration with analysts within those organizations and the analysts within the Red Team. Similarly, the Red Analysis Branch Manager is responsible for the integration of – and facilitating training on – new capabilities and tools utilized by all analysts within the organization. This includes research on current tools, new tools being developed, an understanding of tools and applications available throughout Industry and Government service (dual-use included) and establishing metrics and training validations to ensure all analysts are qualified.

Responsibilities/Tasks

The Red Analysis Branch Manager shall:

• Manage day-to-day collection efforts, analysis and fusion of the collected information of the Red Cell

• Coordinate with the Authorities/Coordination Branch Manager and the Partner Integration Branch Manager to eliminate collection effort conflicts across all programs

• Provide oversight of training, standardization, and performance of the Red Cell and its managers

• Assist in the preparation of status reports on Program activities for DTRA

• Review all Red Cell deliverables for accuracy and format

• Prepare program deliverables

• This is a supervisory position which requires leadership and management of the Red Analysis Branch analysts

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• An active TS/SCI clearance

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree coupled with 10-12 years’ experience as an intelligence analyst, Special Forces, Army Counterintelligence, or full spectrum Information Operations

• Proficiency in understanding, analyzing and summarizing comprehensive and complex technical, contractual, and research information/data

• Excellent analytical, communications-both oral and written, and project management experience

• Experience in a role commensurate with the position description and responsibilities. At a minimum, personnel shall have management experience in one or more of the following areas:

• All Source Analyst

• Information Operations/Counterintelligence Analyst

• Geo-Spatial Analysis

• Network Analyst (Physical)

• Threat/Target Analysis

• Cyber Analyst (Logical)

• Insider Threat Analyst

• Financial/Contracting/Business Analyst

• Social Media/Big Data/Deep (Dark) Web Analyst

• Freedom of Information Act/Declassified Document Researcher

• Supply Chain/Logistics Analyst

• Proficient in understanding, analyzing and summarizing comprehensive and complex technical, contractual, and research information/data.

• Demonstrated expertise performing information/data collection, analysis, and fusion.

• Excellent analytical, communications-both oral and written, and project management experience

• HUMINT operations

Desired skills/qualifications:

• Previous Red Team Experience Preferred

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience serving as a Red Team Manager

• Retired senior officer/senior noncommissioned officer/senior warrant officer

• Former Manager/Leader of a Joint, Army, Air Force, Navy, Red Team

• Experience in Army Special Operations

Who is ARA?

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company. We have been providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences since 1979. ARA has over 2,112 employee owners and continues to grow rapidly. Together, our offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norm. The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. Employee ownership ensures you have a voice with what happens in the company. We are also very proud of our Women’s Initiative Network (WIN), whose purpose is to motivate, support, and encourage professional career development for women to maximize career and professional accomplishments.

To find out more about what the Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Division has to offer, visit our website at: https://www.ara.com/benefits/

Qualifications

Education

Required

• Bachelors or better

Experience

Required

• 10-12 years: Relevant Work Experience

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)