Irregular Warfare Analyst

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Leidos National Security Sector (NSS) is seeking a highly skilled mission-driven Irregular Warfare (IW) Operations Analyst to support APOLLO/OPIAS in Tampa, FL. This role supports joint, interagency, and special operations forces including PSYOP executing Irregular Warfare and influence operations globally as part of Operations in the Information Environment (OIE). The IW Operations Analyst will synchronize operational planning, targeting, and information environment activities across multiple domains to enable campaign in competition, crisis, and conflict. This position is on a future contract pending award announcement.

Possible locations for this position are as follows:

· MacDill (Tampa, FL)

· Al Udeid (Qatar)

· Fort Meade (Maryland)

· Northcom (Colorado Springs, CO)

· Camp Humphreys (Korea)

· Arifjan (Kuwait)

· Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (Hawaii)

· Fort Eisenhower (Georgia)

· Offutt AFB (Omaha, NE)

· Naval Operating Base Norfolk (Virginia)

· Southcom (Doral, FL)

· JB San Antonio (Texas)

· Stuttgart (Germany)

· Vicenza (Italy)

· Tyndall AFB (Florida)

Key Responsibilities:

• Support joint force, interagency, and partner nation planning teams in the development and execution of irregular warfare and OIE (IW) campaigns and operations.
• Integrate unconventional warfare, proxy conflict, foreign internal defense, counterinsurgency, and influence operations into operational design and campaign planning.
• Synchronize influence operations, military deception (MILDEC), operations security (OPSEC), electronic warfare (EW), cyber operations, and information environment activities into irregular warfare plans.
• Conduct irregular warfare analysis of adversary networks, key nodes, critical vulnerabilities, and strategic narratives.
• Apply analytic methodologies including F3EAD, CARVER, social network analysis, and targeting frameworks to support IW  /OIE planning.
• Employ analytic tools such as Palantir, Analyst Notebook, and intelligence databases to inform IW campaign development.
• Coordinate with interagency and intelligence community stakeholders to ensure synchronized irregular warfare efforts across competition and conflict.
• Supports planning, coordination, integration, and synchronization of non-lethal effects and offensive cyberspace operations (OCO) in support of CCMD operations. Assists in synchronizing OCO and defensive cyberspace operations (DCO) support into the COCOM Joint Fires / Targeting process
• Supports the integration of non-lethal, unconventional, and information capabilities into the targeting cycle.
• Analyze, assess, and provide input to planning and operational requirements as a SME in targeting operations, anti-terrorism planning, Offensive Cyber Operations, and other information operations.
• Utilize experience conducting intelligence nodal analysis and critical vulnerability assessments of enemy networks to identify and nominate key nodes for kinetic and non-kinetic options, thereby disrupting or eliminating enemy centers of gravity.
• Provide IW, and Unconventional Warfare UW, OIE and intelligence doctrine, operations, policy, and authorities subject matter expertise and integration of lessons learned to support senior leader decision making.
• Develop, validate, coordinate, and integrate IW/ OIE functional plans in conjunction with higher headquarters, components, DoD, USG, interagency, and partner nations. Review and provide coordinated input to strategic and operational plans and orders, analysis reports, policy reports, requests for forces, DoD directives and guidance, and other documentation that supports strategic operations research, analysis, and policy development. Conduct and consolidate foreign partner nation representative coordination and planning to develop foreign partner nation capability and capacity.
• Generate irregular warfare / OIE concepts into all contingency plans and operations plans and ensure that multi-domain capabilities and functions are dynamic, deliberate, and address crisis action planning processes.
• Leverage expert knowledge in counterintelligence and human intelligence activities to coordinate and collaborate with DoD and Service counterintelligence organizations, the Joint Staff, and other federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies on a daily basis regarding matters of mutual interest; review and contribute to military deception planning processes.
• Serve as a planning SME that supports multiple planning efforts as an irregular warfare (IW) OIE operational planning officer and provide quality control of deliberate, crisis action, and contingency planning,
• Provide expert mission analysis, analytic problem solving, and assessment skills; creatively use information systems and Information Forces and Info activities integrate with interagency and intelligence community (IC); develop innovative concepts to counter adversarial use of information in the Cyber and electromagnetic spectrum; and consider significant or key cultural aspects that affect operational and tactical planning, security, and risk assessments.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent operational experience
• 8+ years of operational experience in Irregular Warfare, Information Operations, Special Operations, or Influence Operations
• Expertise in irregular warfare disciplines: unconventional warfare, counterinsurgency, proxy conflict, partner engagement, foreign internal defense, and information environment operations
• Experience integrating non-kinetic capabilities into operational and campaign-level planning
• Experience applying advanced targeting analysis methodologies (F3EAD, CARVER, SNA)
• Familiarity with SAP, STO, and ACCM capabilities and their integration into IW campaigns
• Excellent briefing, coordination, and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of intelligence community processes, databases, and analytic tools
• Active TS /SCI security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in national security, strategy, or military operations
• Graduate of Joint or Service Irregular Warfare professional military education programs
• Prior experience with USSOCOM, SOCPAC, CENTCOM, INDOPACOM, or CCMD J39
• Experience with interagency partners such as CIA, State Department, FBI, DHS, or Treasury
• Knowledge of JOPP, MDMP, MCPP, and joint operational design processes

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