Staff Open-Source Collector

Job description

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is actively seeking a highly qualified Staff Open-Source Collector to support the Intelligence and Defense communities. Outstanding candidates will have the ability to quickly discover information, create reports, and perform their duties independently with little guidance. At ARA, our goal is to improve our nation’s safety, security, and way of life. Your contribution matters and you’ll have the opportunity to make a real-world impact by joining our team! The ideal candidate will have an active interest in working with open-source data to produce timely, cogent intelligence products that meet Defense Intelligence requirements while working within established security protocols. In this role, the candidate will respond to information requests by collecting and analyzing publicly available information (PAI) using specialized Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) tradecraft and managed attribution (MA) tools. The candidate must be willing to build an independent program of discovery and reporting to support the assigned mission, while adhering to the OSINT Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) lifecycle. This posit...