Technical Editor MID

About the role

Amentum provides warning and all-source analytical support to DIA's Defense Combating Terrorism Office, producing counterterrorism analysis, national watchlisting support for the TIDE database, expert assessments for the Pentagon and Joint Staff, and 24/7 support to DoD and partner agencies. This Technical Editor MID position reviews intelligence products for quality, edits technical materials and ensures they meet agency publication and security standards. The work schedule is first shift, 8 hours per day.

Key responsibilities

• Review intelligence products for grammar, punctuation, syntax, logic, clarity and consistency, and ensure style and format follow agency publication standards and style guides.
• Amend draft tables, tone boxes and graphics so they match the accompanying text, and ensure proper classification markings in line with IC guidance.
• Work with authors to revise products for narrative organization and negotiate further revisions.
• Edit technical materials such as analytic reports, scientific articles, news releases, regulations, technical manuals, specifications, brochures, pamphlets and speeches or scripts.
• Cite sources according to the Sourcing Defense Intelligence Analysis guide or other agency standards, verify classification blocks and in-text source characterizations, and check that source packets are complete.
• Identify unsubstantiated claims, return incomplete source packets to authors, and work with other departments to keep content accurate.
• Submit products for publication in CORE, message traffic and other networks, link them to NCTC Current, and disseminate warning products by email.
• Compile reports on performance and usage metrics for knowledge management capabilities, and maintain records of production and dissemination.

Required profile

• TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree; preferred: master's degree in a related field.
• At least 8 years of experience in the labor category, with some in the last 2 years; preferred: 3 years reviewing analytic products for argument, tradecraft standards and support of conclusions.
• Understanding of the 200 Series of ODNI ICDs (203, 206, 208).

Required skills

• General information systems experience with SIPRNet, JWICS and standard IC message traffic retrieval systems.
• Ability to learn and support additional tools as the program evolves.
• Use of research databases such as the Global Terrorism Database and quantifiable matrices for written and oral products.