Collection Requirements Manager in Boring, Maryland at Federated IT

About Bridge Defense. Bridge Defense is redefining how modern defense technology is delivered. Based in Washington, D.C., we are built for the dynamic mission environment facing the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and federal law enforcement agencies. We provide full-spectrum national security solutions that combine secure infrastructure, cleared talent, and mission-ready software to meet evolving defense challenges. Our services include secure software development in classified environments and the design and implementation of advanced IT and cybersecurity capabilities ranging from secure cloud architectures and enterprise infrastructure to data center operations, scientific analysis, cutting-edge cyber defense, and intelligence analysis.

We are led by technologists and veterans with firsthand mission experience, which enables us to understand both the operational realities and the innovation needed to succeed. Our approach is agile and outcome-based, delivering results in weeks rather than months whenever possible.

At Bridge Defense we value people, integrity, and excellence. We foster an environment where innovation thrives in support of traditional mission requirements. Our team members receive competitive compensation, robust benefits, professional development and certification opportunities, and clear paths for growth while working on the nation’s most critical projects.

Core Values:

• Innovation & Responsiveness: We push beyond legacy models with efficient, tech-led solutions built to scale and evolve.
• Trusted Performance: Security, compliance, and deep experience in delivering to demanding environments guides all we do.
• Mission Focused Expertise: From veteran leadership to cleared engineers, our people understand both the technology and the mission.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Help your client monitor, manage, develop, and refine collection requirements, operations, and multi-int strategies.
• Assist with executing collection operations management processes supporting national agency tasking, synchronization, and strategy development to ensure collection requirements effectively support intelligence needs.
• Use your understanding of intelligence collection disciplines, collection requirements management systems, collection plans and strategies, and intelligence community coordination processes.
• Applies intelligence collection systems and capabilities to inform intelligence consumers of collection developments and relevancy through a range of products.
• Collaborates across the IC to understand customer intelligence needs and gaps to optimize developing and validating collection requirements for the customer.
• Evaluates the efficiency and effectiveness of multi-INT collection against requirements; and the execution of collection plans and strategies to generate reliable and valid intelligence to customers.
• Assesses the value of collected intelligence versus the customers’ need(s) and decision making.
• Identifies collection gaps, related trends and opportunities; assesses collection options, tests assumptions, and produces judgements, recommendations and solutions to refine collection
• Uses statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization techniques to find and interpret ISR data sources.
• Manages large amounts of data, ensures data consistency, produces visualizations and develops models to report findings.
• Produces analyses identifying gaps in collections methods, and models future intelligence collection scenarios for Collection Strategists, Intelligence Planners, and Collection Data Engineers.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree +8 years of relevant experience or 12 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• Demonstrated knowledge of developing methods and criteria to evaluate whether collection requirements been satisfied, using Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs), Measures of Performance (MOPs), responses to collection plans and strategies, and others, and produces feedback of findings.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the intelligence collection capabilities, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED), and planning tools.
• Demonstrated proficiency conducting statistics and using statistical packages such as, but not limited to, Matlab, SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS, or R.
• Full understanding of the Collection Operational Tasking and Reporting system, Collection Operations Policy, Oversight Requirements and tasking authorities, to include HUMINT and HUMINT related activities.
• At least 3+ years of experience with intelligence collection management
• 2+ years of experience with ISR and Multi-INT collection, strategy, and analysis
• Experience in analyzing collection operations, requirements, and strategies to articulate effectiveness and identify areas for improvement
• Experience with analyzing and visualizing large data sets to identify gaps, trends, and opportunities
• Knowledge of multi-intelligence collection disciplines, including SIGINT, MASINT, IMINT, GEOINT, or TECHINT
• Knowledge of joint command and subordinate organization’s structure, role, and command relationship
• Completion of a DoD or IC Collection Management Course​

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree
• 12+ years of experience with intelligence collection management
• Experience as a collection strategist supporting national agency-level organizations
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills, including confidently interfacing with senior military and civilian officials
• Graduate of an in-residence DoD / IC collection management course

General Factors:

• Depending on project requirements, may be required to work within a compressed schedule; more than 40-hour work weeks should be expected when schedules demand it.
• Willing to travel, if needed.
• No Relocation.
• Must be able to sit/stand at a desk for long-periods and must be able to lift 20 pounds occasionally.
• Must be able to multi-task and rapidly change priorities with limited notice.

Clearance: TS/SCI with current CI Poly (adjudicated within the past 5 years or ability to pass a CI Poly)

Location: Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling; On-Site

Salary Range: 95K - 112K

Online applications, please.

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