Intelligence Collection Manager / ISR Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Valiant is seeking an Intelligence Collection Manager / ISR Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support the Joint Staff J-7 Deputy Directorate for Joint Training and Exercises (DDJTE) in Suffolk, Virginia. This high-impact position places you at the center of Joint Force readiness, where you will support the design, planning, execution, and assessment of Joint and multinational training events focused on intelligence operations, intelligence collection management, ISR employment, targeting integration, and operational decision-making. In this role, you will help Combatant Commands, Joint Task Forces, Service Components, and senior military leaders develop and exercise intelligence processes necessary to compete and prevail in complex, multi-domain operational environments. You will integrate intelligence collection capabilities, targeting methodologies, ISR operations, threat analysis, and intelligence support to operations across some of the Department of Defense's most demanding Joint exercises and experimentation efforts. Working directly with Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Service Components, coalition partners, and intelligence community stakeholders, you will contribute to the development of training environments that strengthen Joint Force readiness, integrated deterrence, and decision advantage.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as the lead Intelligence Collection Management and ISR advisor supporting Joint exercise planning, operational assessments, and capability development initiatives.
• Integrate intelligence collection management considerations throughout all phases of the Joint Training System (JTS) and Joint Event Life Cycle (JELC) to support Combatant Command training objectives and operational outcomes.
• Develop Collection Management Plans (CMPs) and intelligence support strategies that align intelligence collection activities with exercise objectives, operational mission threads, and commander information requirements.
• Develop, coordinate, and manage Consolidated Intelligence Support Requests (CISRs) and intelligence requirements in support of Joint exercises and training events.
• Lead Intelligence Scripting Working Groups (ISWGs), facilitate intelligence planning efforts, and coordinate intelligence participation across Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Services, Coalition partners, and Intelligence Community organizations.
• Provide expertise in Intelligence Collection Management, ISR operations, intelligence analysis, indications and warning, targeting processes, and intelligence support to joint planning and execution.
• Develop and coordinate realistic intelligence products, threat assessments, ISR collection plans, target packages, Joint Integrated Prioritized Target Lists (JIPTLs), Restricted Target Lists (RTLs), and No-Strike Lists for training audiences.
• Analyze adversary capabilities, doctrine, campaign plans, collection architectures, and emerging threats to enhance operational realism within Joint exercise operational environments.
• Support operational environment development by integrating intelligence perspectives into Road to Crisis products, adversary campaign plans, operational environment synchronization efforts, and scenario development.
• Coordinate intelligence collection priorities, ISR employment, and intelligence sharing processes across Joint, interagency, allied, and coalition partners.
• Support Exercise Control (EXCON), intelligence response cells, collection management cells, targeting boards, and operational planning teams during exercise execution.
• Provide intelligence mentoring, training, and education to Joint Force Headquarters, Combatant Commands, Joint Task Forces, and training audiences.
• Conduct post-exercise analysis, lessons learned collection, operational assessments, and recommendations to improve Joint intelligence readiness and operational effectiveness.
• Develop intelligence-focused after-action products, observations, insights, and best practices supporting Joint Force development and design efforts.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's Degree in Intelligence Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Military Science, or related field and (8)
• 15+ years of relevant military, government, or industry experience supporting intelligence operations, ISR operations, collection management, or Joint military operations;
• Master's Degree preferred.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: