GEOINT Standards Developer – Senior Level

GEOINT Standards Developer - Imagery Standards – Senior Level

Clearance Required:  TS/SCI

Minimum Years’ Experience: 12

Overall Assignment Description:

General Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing specialized advice and assistance on complex technical projects. Is widely known in his/her field of expertise. Independently performs a variety of system analysis, design and/or engineering tasks that are broad and innovative in nature. Participates in national level steering and advisory groups, panels and committees. Advises/mentors technical personnel at all levels and reviews work for technical accuracy. Guides the strategic growth of scientific imagery programs.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on development of Still and/or Motion Imagery Standards with the objective of facilitating compliance and interoperability through integration of NSG & ASG requirements while reducing technical and schedule risk in the following functional areas:
  • Still Imagery standards including, but not exclusive to:
    • NITF
    • NITF Extensions (MIE4NITF, SIDD, SICD, etc.)
    • NATO Imagery STANAGs (NSIF, for instance)
  • Motion Imagery standards & phenomenologies including, but not exclusive to:
    • Electro Optical (EO)
    • Large Volume Motion Imagery (LVMI)/Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI)
    • Infrared Motion Imagery Standards (IR)
    • Multispectral Imaging (MSI)
    • Hyper spectral imaging (HSI)
  • Ensure current and future GEOINT standards will satisfy capability requirements at the program and strategic level across NGA, the NSG, and ASG.
  • Develop capability-based standards profiles & reference architectures to enable search, discovery, access, and retrieval, integrated intelligence, and advanced analytics are enabled.

Required Skills and Tasks:

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Able to develop & use more complex concepts & processes
• Performs multiple tasks at specialist level
• Leads multiple Junior/Mid-level personnel
• May be recognized as a SME
• Evaluates & recommends new technology & processes based upon cost, risk, mission

Work Level:

• Leadership
• Management
• Key member of team
• Oversees or monitors task(s)
• Provides issue resolution

Education/Certification Required:

• Master’s degree plus 4, Bachelor’s degree plus 6 year experience, Associates degree plus 8 years’ experience, or a minimum of 8 years’ experience, in relevant field

Desired Skills:

• Understanding of Imaging Process
  • Concepts of sensors & how they work
  • Concepts of sensor collection parameters
• Understanding of Imaging Workflow
  • Concepts of how imagery data flows from collection platform to exploitation system to archive
  • Concepts of what processing or metadata additions can occur at the various steps in workflow
• Understanding of GEOINT Standards core components
  • File formats
    • NITF is a byte-offset format so what are the pros/cons
    • Be aware of other formats ISOBMFF, HDF5, TIFF/GEOTIFF, etc.
  • Metadata models vs Metadata encoding
    • Understand abstract content models & organization from purpose perspective
      • Sensor info, platform info, coordinate reference systems, security info, discovery & retrieval info, etc.
    • Understand various metadata encodings (e.g., NITE TRE/SDE, KLV, XML, JSON, binary, etc.) and their pros/cons
  • Image formats vs Image compression
    • Understand various ways to represent 2-D pixel array data, band/pixel interleaving, etc.
    • Understand various image compression techniques, pros/cons of each, typically where each is used & why
  • Dissemination Protocols
    • Block FTP vs Streaming protocols
    • Encapsulation in IP or other server/client protocols
  • Clear & concise technical writing to unambiguously convey technical concepts & guidance
    • Clearly define scope, define all terms in use, leverage EARS to convey requirements, use active voice, etc.
    • Have ability to write technical GEOINT standards with inputs from other SMEs
  • Be proactive in finding information or understanding new topics
    • Ask questions, develop understanding to level that you can convey concepts to others
    • Consistently demonstrate willingness to learn & follow through
  • Facilitate technical discussions with community experts
    • Scope topic appropriately, keep discussions on track to achieve desired outcome
    • Generate & present slides to all levels of audiences regarding GEOINT standards