Individuals who come to the DI are experts in a range
of fields and can expect to apply their knowledge, expertise,
and research skills to develop focused intelligence
assessments from many sources of information. DI officers
include a range of professionals, scientists, and experts
from a variety of disciplines—you may have the
very skills we need! The following list of analytic,
student, and professional
specialties will introduce the various tasks and
responsibilities involved in the directorate. Each brings
something unique to the DI’s work.
Analytic
Positions
Analytic
Methodologists develop and apply new or
established approaches to analysis – such as statistical,
operations research, polling, econometric, mathematical,
or geospatial modeling methodologies – to add
rigor and precision to the DI’s overall intelligence
analysis and collection.
Collection
Analysts apply their expertise on intelligence
collection systems, using collection capabilities, processes,
and policies to drive the flow of intelligence information
and provide colleagues the data needed to understand
and analyze issues.
Counterintelligence
Threat Analysts collect, study, and interpret
a range of reports to identify and prevent foreign intelligence
operations that threaten the US Government or Intelligence
Community.
Counterterrorism
Analysts help warn of terrorist threats
by assessing the leadership, motivations, plans, and
intentions of foreign terrorist groups and their state
and nonstate sponsors.
Crime
and Counternarcotics Analysts follow
international narcotics trafficking and organized crime
groups to detect emerging trends and patterns that will
affect US national security.
Economic
Analysts use their specialized skills to
analyze and interpret economic trends and developments,
assess and track foreign financial activities, and develop
new econometric and modeling methodologies.
Leadership
Analysts collect and analyze information
on foreign leaders and organizations to offer US policymakers
insights on their foreign counterparts.
Medical
Analysts are physicians who
analyze and assess global health issues, such as disease
outbreaks, and who follow the health of foreign leaders.
Military
Analysts help US policymakers stay on top
of threats by following foreign military and technical
developments that affect another country’s ability
to wage war or to threaten regional or international
stability.
Political
Analysts look at political, social, cultural,
and historical information to interpret intelligence
about foreign political systems and developments.
Psychological
and Psychiatric Analysts tap
their expertise in psychology, psychiatry, or sociology
to study the health of foreign officials and to assess
the psychological and social factors that influence
world events.
Science,
Technology, and Weapons Analysts use their
unique technical and scientific knowledge to identify
and analyze weapons proliferation and proliferators;
conventional weapons systems; chemical, biological,
and nuclear weapons; information warfare; computer systems;
and energy security.
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Student
Positions
The DI has openings for exceptional students through
a range of special programs, both at the undergraduate
and graduate level. These include the Undergraduate
Scholarship,
Co-op
and Internship
Programs, and a Graduate
Fellow Program for first- or second-year graduate
students.
Through the Pat Roberts Intelligence
Scholars Program, highly qualified graduate and undergraduate
students in certain specialized fields may compete for
a one-year scholarship for the 2005/06 scholastic year.
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Professional
Positions
Cartographers
apply their expertise on specific regional or world
accounts to create complex thematic and reference maps
and other products for intelligence publications and
presentations.
Graphic
Designers develop products that integrate
graphic, map, photographic, and text components of complex
publications, presentations, briefing books, and Web
sites.
Multimedia
Designers draw on their storyboard, scripting,
animation, and editing skills to produce dynamic maps
and graphics, 3-D animation, and CD-ROM production.
Video
Producers create intelligence videos, both
as standalone products and as supplements for analytic
briefings, using studio and remote videotaping, close
captioning, and DVD technology.
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