The Capital Area Division (CAD) of Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) has an outstanding opportunity for an exceptional Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) Analyst with experience identifying, characterizing, and assessing global chemical and biological threats and associated proliferation and procurement trends. The right candidate will provide Defense, Service, and Interagency audiences with timely and accurate assessments of adversary chemical and biological threats, WMD programs, and weapons-related S&T developments. This person routinely contributes to Defense Intelligence Enterprise deliverables, including but not limited to foundational assessments, warning reports, technical briefings, and other analytic documents. He/She will also collaborate with the Intelligence Community, Defense Department, national labs, and academia to address WMD-related threat issues.  The CBW Analyst conducts 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.  The position is expected to understand and articulate official government analytic positions during customer engagements and represent Defense Intelligence Enterprise analytic units as directed.

 

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. This position is contingent upon contract award with an anticipated start date in November 2024.

 

Required Qualifications:

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.

 

Desired 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 consultant 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.

 

COMPANY INFORMATION:

Applied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 1200 professionals. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

 

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership fosters greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please visit our website at www.ara.com.

 

Please apply at www.careers.ara.com for the Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) Analyst position.