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Counterspace Directed Energy Weapons Team Lead, NSIC

Department of the Air Force
United States Space Force Forces
United States Space Force / National Space Intelligence Center

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Accepting applications
Posted today · Apply by 06/09/26
Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 9, 2026
Location
1 vacancy in the following location:
Work site options
Telework eligible
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Remote job
No
Relocation expenses reimbursed
Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocation expenses in accordance with agency policy.
Salary
$110,401 - $143,523 per year
Pay scale & grade
GG 13
Promotion potential
None
Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.
Work schedule
Full-time
Travel Required
25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Appointment type
Permanent
Occupations and job series
Supervisory status
No
Federal service type
This job is in the Competitive Service
Represented by a union
No
Drug test
Yes
Security clearance
Sensitive Compartmented Information
Position sensitivity and risk
Critical-Sensitive (CS)/High Risk
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Background check type
Financial disclosure required
No
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Announcement number
SF-FY26-6N-GG-0132-13-SPLSH
Control number
871471000

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The United States Space Force (USSF) at WPAFB, Dayton, OH is searching for a Counterspace Directed Energy Weapons Team Lead to support NSIC S9 (GG-0132-13).

Description:
The 2nd Intelligence Analysis Squadron within the National Space Intelligence Center is seeking a Directed Energy Weapons Team Lead position, GG-0132-13. This flight is responsible for assessing characteristics, performance, limitations, vulnerabilities, tactics and engagements of orbital ASAT weapons, providing integrated, forensic and predictive, counterspace threat intelligence for military operations, force modernization, and policy making communities. In this role, you will be responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the analysis of a team and collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize project requirements based on customer needs. Key responsibilities will include developing and executing team analytic production plans, mentoring and training team members to improve their technical skills and knowledge, ensuring team production is technically accurate and compliant with Intelligence Community Directives and tradecraft standards, and communicating tailored results to a variety of audiences such as briefing analytic findings to customers on a frequent basis.

Ideal Candidate:
We are seeking an Orbital Warfare Team Lead, specialized in counterspace Directed Energy Weapons, to join our high-demand, growing mission area. You will be responsible for leading a team of analysts with intelligence, science, and engineering backgrounds to deliver all-source intelligence analysis on adversary orbital anti-satellite (ASAT) threats. The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in foreign counterspace systems and sub-systems, with specific emphasis on laser, radio-frequency (RF), and high-power microwave expertise, in addition to an understanding of space system design and employment concepts. As a Team Lead, the ideal candidate possesses excellent leadership, mentoring, and communication skills and has experience with project management and conducting product reviews consistent with Intelligence Community Directives.


Key Skills and Abilities:
1. Knowledge of the full range of intelligence research and collection methods, techniques, and practices to use multi-source intelligence information systems related to satellite communications (SATCOM) architecture, radio frequency (RF) signals and the electromagnetic spectrum.
2. Knowledge of advanced analytical principles, concepts, and methods to produce detailed analyses of complex information/situations attained from multiple sources for the characterization, analysis and reporting of RF communications externals (COMEXT) data in support of operational and intelligence assessments.
3. Knowledge of the national intelligence community, Joint, DoD structure, organizations, and mission/functions, interrelationships, space operations, and intelligence communities' electromagnetic interference (EMI) resolution process and key external customers.
4. Skill in conducting unbiased complex research, communication, identifying appropriate available systems/data sources, and producing collection requirement assessments that answer specific tasks to link and leverage agency capabilities in support of consumers, customers, and clients.
5. Skill in communicating effectively with others, both orally and in writing, in working out solutions to problems or questions related to the work, writing clear and concise intelligence products, and delivering written and/or verbal presentations to senior level audiences for decision-making purposes.
6. Ability to maintain control of classified material, quickly assimilate disparate data, render knowledgeable and accurate assessments of the implication of such data, and make decisions, estimates, and recommendations under conditions of urgency and pressure based on mature judgment and experience and present and/or defend a position.



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Conditions of employment

  • Must be a U.S Citizen.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret / SCI security clearance.
  • Safeguards classified or sensitive budget-related information and/or files.
  • May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled or emergency basis.
  • Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
  • This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
  • Employee may be required to perform travel by military or commercial passenger aircraft in the performance of temporary duty assignments.
  • Relocation funding is authorized.
  • Information assurance certification is a condition of employment:
  • Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 15 days per year.
  • This is a drug testing designated position. The incumbent is subject to pre-employment drug testing as a condition of employment, and participation in random drug testing.

Qualifications

The 0132 series does not have an individual occupational requirement that must be met. You can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 3rd section titled Administrative and Management Positions.

Additional information

Employed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click here for more information.

Disabled veteran leave is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more. For more information, click here.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:

Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

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Agency contact information

US Space Force Enterprise Talent Management
Email
HQ.USSF.TalentAcquisition@spaceforce.mil
Address
USSF - United States Space Force Forces
1670 Space Force Pentagon
Washington, DC 20330
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