Communication Analyst Salary Jobs in Reston, VA (NOW HIRING)

Location: Arlington, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI

Salary Rate: $134,000

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior CD/TOC Network Analyst to support the Narcotics and Transnational Crime Support Center (NTC). This position provides advanced all-source intelligence analysis and entity-level network analysis in support of U.S. Government efforts to identify, disrupt, and dismantle transnational organized crime (TOC), drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), terrorist organizations, illicit financial networks, and other national security threats.

The successful candidate will integrate intelligence reporting, law enforcement information, financial data, communications analysis, commercial databases, and open-source information to produce actionable intelligence products supporting operational, tactical, and strategic decision-making.
Location: Onsite (Arlington, VA)
Clearance: Active TS/SCI Clearance

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct advanced all-source entity and network analysis supporting counter-drug (CD), counter-threat finance (CTF), counter-terrorism (CT), and transnational organized crime (TOC) missions.
  
• Analyze criminal, terrorist, and illicit financial networks using intelligence reporting, law enforcement information, financial data, communications analysis, corporate registries, blockchain data, and open-source intelligence.
  
• Develop target packages, lead cables, communication charts, link analyses, intelligence assessments, and other written, graphical, and verbal intelligence products supporting government decision-makers.
  
• Identify network vulnerabilities, hidden relationships, emerging threats, and previously unknown entities to support investigations, operational targeting, and mission planning.
  
• Integrate HUMINT, SIGINT, GEOINT, MASINT, OSINT, and law enforcement reporting into comprehensive intelligence assessments.
  
• Perform communications analysis, financial analysis, blockchain analysis, corporate ownership research, shipping analysis, digital footprint investigations, and pattern-of-life analysis using government and commercial analytical tools.
  
• Utilize specialized intelligence, law enforcement, and commercial platforms to enrich, correlate, visualize, and manage complex datasets while maintaining accurate entity relationships.
  
• Produce clear, concise, and accurate intelligence products aligned with established analytic tradecraft and quality standards.
  
• Brief senior government officials, Intelligence Community personnel, law enforcement agencies, and mission partners on analytical findings and operational recommendations.
  
• Collaborate with Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, federal law enforcement, and interagency partners while adhering to intelligence oversight policies, information-sharing requirements, and operational security procedures.
  
• Identify intelligence gaps, develop collection requirements, and recommend improvements to analytical methodologies and workflows.
  
• Maintain proficiency with intelligence analysis tools and apply best practices in entity-level network analysis, data integration, and operational intelligence support.
  
• Contribute to peer mentoring, training, and knowledge sharing to improve analytical tradecraft and team performance.
  
• Operate effectively in a structured mission environment while maintaining strict handling of sensitive and classified information and delivering timely, mission-focused intelligence products.
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility and ability to maintain clearance throughout employment.
  
• Bachelor’s degree relevant to the subject area of this contract from an accredited college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
  
• Minimum of twelve (12) years of specialized intelligence or law enforcement analytical experience, with a portion of that experience occurring within the last two (2) years.
  

Education Substitution

Candidates with prior military experience in a related field may substitute education requirements with an additional five (5) years of directly related experience, for a total of seventeen (17) years of qualifying experience.

Required Experience

Candidates must demonstrate extensive experience performing advanced intelligence analysis, entity-level network analysis, and operational intelligence support within national security, law enforcement, or intelligence environments.

Required experience includes:

• Conducting all-source intelligence analysis by integrating classified reporting, law enforcement information, financial intelligence, communications data, commercial databases, and open-source intelligence (OSINT) to identify, assess, and characterize criminal, terrorist, illicit finance, and transnational threat networks.
  
• Performing entity-level network analysis to identify relationships, key individuals, organizations, financial structures, operational dependencies, vulnerabilities, and emerging threats supporting targeting, investigations, and mission planning.
  
• Developing intelligence products including target packages, link analyses, network diagrams, intelligence assessments, lead cables, operational reports, and executive-level briefings.
  
• Supporting counter-drug (CD), counter-threat finance (CTF), counter-terrorism (CT), and transnational organized crime (TOC) missions through analysis of criminal enterprises, trafficking organizations, terrorist networks, and illicit financial activities.
  
• Conducting financial intelligence analysis involving criminal finance, terrorist financing, money laundering, cryptocurrency activity, corporate ownership structures, trade activity, and other indicators of illicit activity.
  
• Performing communications, metadata, digital footprint, and relationship analysis to identify operational patterns and support intelligence assessments.
  
• Supporting federal law enforcement, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and interagency missions through intelligence production, collaboration, and information sharing.
  
• Working within classified intelligence environments utilizing systems such as JWICS and classified message traffic while adhering to intelligence oversight, security, and operational procedures.
  
• Utilizing intelligence, law enforcement, commercial, and analytical tools to enrich, correlate, visualize, and manage complex datasets while maintaining accurate entity relationships.
  
• Identifying intelligence gaps, developing collection requirements, improving analytic methodologies, and applying sound intelligence tradecraft to solve complex mission challenges.
  
• Briefing senior government officials, Intelligence Community personnel, law enforcement organizations, and mission partners on analytical findings and operational recommendations.
  
• Collaborating effectively in structured mission environments while maintaining analytical rigor, attention to detail, and the ability to deliver timely, accurate, and actionable intelligence products.
  

Required Technical Skills

Experience with intelligence analysis tools, databases, investigative platforms, financial intelligence systems, and geospatial technologies, including but not limited to:

Intelligence Analysis & Network Visualization

• i2 Analyst’s Notebook (ANB)
  
• Palantir
  
• Analyst Cop
  

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) & Commercial Intelligence Platforms

• ShadowDragon
  
• Babel Street
  
• Tangles
  
• Fivecast
  
• Sayari
  
• Corporate Registries
  

Financial Intelligence & Illicit Finance Analysis

• TRM Blockchain Analytics
  
• BankScan
  
• ScanWriter
  
• Accurint
  
• CLEAR
  
• FinCEN databases
  

Trade, Shipping, and Supply Chain Analysis

• Panjiva
  
• ImportGenius
  

Communications & Investigative Analysis

• PenLink
  
• NADDIS
  
• DARTS
  
• LInX
  
• TECS
  
• MXSIGER 2.0
  

Geospatial Analysis & Mapping

• ArcGIS
  
• Google Earth
  

Intelligence Reporting & Message Handling Systems

• TAC
  
• RMT
  
• NGT
  
• Horizon
  

Desired Qualifications

• Experience conducting cryptocurrency and blockchain analysis.
  
• Former Special Operations Forces (SOF) Targeter or equivalent operational targeting experience.
  
• Experience supporting operational intelligence organizations.
  
• Strong understanding of transnational organized crime, narcotics trafficking, terrorist financing, and illicit financial networks.
  
• Experience supporting counter-narcotics, counter-threat finance, or counter-terrorism missions.
  
• Demonstrated experience integrating classified and unclassified intelligence sources into actionable operational intelligence products.
  

Equal Opportunity Employer