Open Source Collection Specialist

• Provide support to the Government 24-hours a day 7 days a week 365-days a year through shift work performed by employees on a rotational basis.
• Provide support to worldwide information requirements through the identification collection and aggregation of OSINT media social media gray literature or other publicly available information using customer approved OSINT tools.
• Providesupport functionality of Watch operations by providing significant information on emergent threats breaking events and crisis situations as directed.
• Collect and report on open source intelligence and information for I&A Government personnel.
• Assist with development of OSINT collection plans.
• Assist with identifying collecting and exploiting both structured and unstructured publicly available open-source and social media information or other overt and/or publicly available information available information.
• Use Government-approved OSINT specialized equipment tools techniques tactics and procedures (TTPs) for conducting OSINT activity (searches and research) specifically accessing collecting reporting and disseminating overt and/or publicly available information on the clear deep dark web.
• Assist with providing raw unevaluated OSINT reporting for serialization and dissemination that responds to or satisfies collection requirements and/or align with the Homeland Security Priority Framework (HIPF).
• Assist with translating foreign language material by using publicly available translation sites.
• Use approved processes and procedures for transmitting sharing of information derived overtly and/or from publicly available information.
• Provide personnel to support access of various techniques to the Internet at the surface deep and dark web.
• Produce daily/monthly intelligence summaries as directed or in response to RFIs.
• Conduct informational exchanges which may be analytic and/or operational/tactical in nature as appropriate exchanges with I&A the IC and other FSLTTP partners to maintain communications and situational awareness of daily activities.
• Assess and provide recommendations on emerging OSINT methodologies and tools.
• Research evaluate correlate analyze integrate and interpret information from multiple intelligence and operational sources.
• Prepare and present briefings to leadership as requested.
• Provide tactical open source intelligence support to the planning and execution of exercises to include analysis and production for scenario development and active participation in the tabletop exercises.The Contractor will develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements and ensure maximum operational success.
• Continuously identify new sources of publicly available information using multiple sources including websites databases and email distribution.
• Support the development of new OSINT targeting and exploitation techniques and analyze the development of OSINT policy and tradecraft.
• Maintain and develop a portfolio of threat profiles activity and trends from all available sources (open-source agency feeds commercial feeds & dark web).

• Six (6) years of prior experience performing Open Source Collection for tactical/operational support.
• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited institution preferred in International Studies Intelligence Homeland Security Criminal Justice or other related concentration.
• Knowledge of the DHS I&A intelligence authorities DHS component missions and the role of I&A in supporting the DHS Intelligence Enterprise; overall I&A intelligence research analysis and production process.
• Knowledge of multiple open source areas including surface deep and dark web.
• Knowledge of multiple collection techniques or approaches.
• Knowledge of developing a collection plan and dissemination practices.

• Experience working with DHS data sources desired.
• Experience working with Microsoft Office suite common Open Source tools
  and DHS data systems.
• Intelligence Community (IC) experience desired; DHS intelligence analysis experience preferred.

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