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Contribute to a unique mission by applying your exceptional interpersonal skills, innate abilities, high-level training and professional talents alongside other highly capable and diverse individuals. Your efforts will enable the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to provide military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers and force planners in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.
As a DIA field human intelligence (HUMINT) collector, you will provide actionable intelligence to our warfighters working on the front lines of our nation's defense. As you immerse yourself in foreign cultures, your courage, integrity, flexibility and excellent judgment will be our most essential assets. You will interact with people around the world, speak native languages, provide intelligence analysis of global events and make an invaluable difference to our national security.
DIA has several specific occupational opportunities, including:
You enjoy challenge and find international travel exciting. Your quick mind can analyze complex situations under pressure. You have an incredible dedication to protecting our nation. You are one of the extraordinarily talented people who produce results that positively impact the outcomes of ever-changing situations on a global level.
Serve among best-in-class professionals on the front lines of the nation's defense, collecting, analyzing and reporting intelligence that ensures a clear understanding of military capabilities and the intentions of foreign governments and non-state entities worldwide. Prepare yourself to face challenges requiring diverse skills. Research mission-critical subjects and manage the information you acquire. Define precise information needs by orchestrating technical and human resources in the field and by producing intelligence for US military forces and decision makers within the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and throughout government.
Leverage your information technology (IT) talents, skills and experience to develop and maintain highly sophisticated information systems that enable the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to effectively store, process, analyze and disseminate collected intelligence. Your individual contribution will provide the accurate, up-to-date information we need in order to monitor and respond immediately to world-changing situations. Your support is imperative to our mission and to key intelligence producers and decision makers worldwide — including the Department of Defense.
From information assurance and systems security to administration and architectural planning, you will provide the intelligence community with overall planning, management, operation and maintenance of our automated information systems. You will also:
Your involvement in DIA's projects will be diverse — from producing hand-held devices to developing large enterprise servers that collect and process huge volumes of data. Because you will be ensuring system availability for thousands of users worldwide through some of the most advanced computer systems anywhere, your role could include deployment to more than 120 countries. There are also many career areas that do not involve travel, but your role will always allow you to leverage emerging technologies in the realm of foreign military intelligence collection and production.