Responsibilities
- Serve as a key technical and operational advisor for SIGINT integration across Army, Joint, and National intelligence architectures.
- Support development, testing, and fielding/issuance of PM IS&A systems ensuring alignment with Joint and National enterprise SIGINT capabilities.
- Demonstrate deep understanding of TCPED workflows, mission management, and multi-INT fusion in support of targeting and situational awareness.
- Advise on architecture alignment, data interoperability, CONOPS, and mission workflows integrating with existing and emerging intelligence systems.
- Support multi-intelligence and correlation efforts across SIGINT and GEOINT data to enhance tactical and operational intelligence products.
- Advise on SIGINT data formats, metadata standards, and transport mechanisms.
- Interface with National and Joint partners to ensure system integration aligns with enterprise SIGINT modernization priorities and cross-domain solutions.
- Contribute to requirements definition, capability documentation, and verification testing of SIGINT-related functionality.
- Participate in working groups, technical exchange meetings, and design reviews with stakeholders.
- Advise on SIGINT mission thread and workflow development for use in exercises, modeling & simulation, and operational assessments.
- Provide briefings and written assessments to Senior Army and Joint leadership regarding SIGINT interoperability, architecture compliance, and capability gaps.
- Communicate effectively with technical and operational audiences across multiple classification levels.
- Maintain awareness of AI/ML-enabled SIGINT exploitation, automation frameworks, and cross-domain data solutions.
- Apply experience in Joint Targeting, PED enterprise modernization, and Mission Data Thread analysis.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field and 10+ years of experience with electromagnetic support (ES) / SIGINT (additional experience may be accepted in lieu of education).
- Graduate of a U.S. Military Service or National SIGINT training
- Knowledge with exploitation of non-communication and communication signals.
- Proficiency with ES/SIGINT tools and techniques.
- Experience with geospatial information from COMINT metadata and/or ELINT.
- Knowledge of space, airborne, and terrestrial ES/SIGINT systems.
- Understanding of ES/SIGINT tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, analysis, and dissemination (reporting) processes.
- Ability to execute CONUS travel (25-50%) and OCONUS travel as required.
- TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.
Desired Skills
- Understanding of ground station environments.
- Experience with space-based ES/SIGINT systems.
- Knowledge of Army airborne and terrestrial ES/SIGINT systems supporting targeting operations.
- Knowledge with Army ES/SIGINT operations, including advanced signals analysis, SIGDEV, TechSIGINT, PROFORMA, and other SIGINT capabilities.
- Understanding of Multi-INT tipping & cueing techniques based on rules and models.
- Familiarity with TNG or JCID 4.2 or ISA services.
- Knowledge of NSA/CSS SIGINT policies (USSIDs).
- Understanding of Army Cryptologic Office (ACO) functions and processes.
Top Skills
What We Do
NextGen is an award-winning IT solutions and services provider. NextGen is a fast-growing company that employs agile and mature processes in areas of innovation, research and development, program management, systems engineering, and technology commercialization. Current customers include the Department of Defense, Federal Government, and commercial companies.
NextGen utilizes a mixed model consisting of Services and Solution Development in support of customer goals. Our core areas of expertise include Software Development, Research and Development, Enterprise IT Systems Engineering, and Cyber Security & Data Management. NextGen obtained ISO 9001 certification and achieved CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC Level 3 appraisal. Recent and steady growth led to our recognition by INC 5000 as the 211th (2016), 440th (2017), 1096th (2018), 1703rd (2019), and 2437th (2020) fastest-growing company in the US and 19th fastest growing IT Services Company in the US. NextGen has offices near Aberdeen, MD; Ft. Meade, MD; Dayton, OH; O’Fallon, IL, and Morgantown, WV.
We understand the paradigm shift of doing more with less; developing, operating, and supporting complex systems and missions while keeping pace with changing technologies; and providing high-quality working solutions to analysts and warfighters supporting the Federal Government. We aggressively manage internal costs to ensure competitive salaries for top talent while ensuring cost-effective delivery to our customers. As the demand for quality increases, NextGen is well-positioned to tackle the most intricate challenges facing the defense and intelligence communities today.
