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Our analysts are our most important 

Agency weapon to ensure we maintain 

our military edge over our competitors.”

Analysis Career Field Manager
ANALYSIS CAREER FIELD 1

Are you ready for a career in Analysis?

From analyzing foreign military capabilities to assessing an adversary’s 

aerospace engineering program, DIA officers in the Analysis Career 

Field produce cutting-edge analysis to help warfighters, policymakers, 

acquisition executives and defense planners understand current and 

future threats facing the Nation. As a DIA officer in this career field, 

you will join a team of the Nation’s best and brightest who take on 

challenging assignments around the world.

While using critical thinking skills to solve difficult intelligence 

challenges, you will be a part of a team and mission that is bigger 

than any one person. DIA needs intellectually curious officers with the 

integrity and courage to present findings to the Nation’s most senior 

leadership. Looking to the future, we also need officers who are willing 

to learn and grow throughout their careers by tackling new subject 

areas and skill sets as the world threat environment and DIA’s mission 

needs evolve.

Think this could be you? Explore how your unique contributions can 

make a national impact as an analyst.

ON THE COVER: Analysts draw from multiple intelligence sources to make and present assessments that inform U.S. 

policymakers, warfighters and the acquisition community.
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Analysis

Do what matters by serving at 

the heart of DIA’s global mission

As a new DIA officer in the Analysis 

Career Field, you will begin your career 

focused on all-source analysis, with 

some officers specializing in scientific 

and technical intelligence. All Analysis 

career tracks offer exciting work and 

growth opportunities.

All-Source Analysis

Our officers bring a variety of life, 

job and academic experience to DIA, 

and can look forward to challenging 

and rewarding careers distinct from any job they have done before. We grow 

our analysts by providing engaging training programs, advanced education 

opportunities, and broadening assignments within DIA and the Intelligence 

Community. Through written reports, in-person briefings and high-tech presentations, 

your work will have an impact informing consequential policy, defense strategy, 

weapons development and military planning decisions.

Sound like the job for you? Serve on our team as an all-source analyst specializing 

in functional areas including:

• Advanced Analytics.

• Arms Proliferation.

• Counterintelligence.

• Critical Infrastructure. 

• Cyber Capabilities.

• Foreign Underground Facilities.

• Military Forces.

• Political and Military Analysis.

• Terrorism.

UPPER RIGHT: An analyst is deployed to detect new 

regional threats. Analysts from all specialties have 

various opportunities to deploy throughout their career 

at DIA.

LEFT: Analysts, like the ones in the watch center, track 

and synthesize the latest intelligence to develop 

detailed, informative and actionable insights within 

their areas of expertise.
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STEM Focus

Put your scientific and technical skills to 

good use by leveraging new methods 

and technologies to enhance our Nation’s 

defense against foreign technical threats.

Using applied research and engineering, you 

will warn decision makers of current and 

projected future threats posed by foreign 

military weapon systems, emerging and 

disruptive technologies, and the proliferation 

of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. 

You will also provide critical assessments 

of global health response capabilities and 

the threats posed by infectious diseases, 

ensuring our Nation’s safety.

As technologies evolve and new scientific 

breakthroughs take place, your specialized 

skills will enable the integration of these 

new technologies to improve our analytic 

tradecraft and produce forward-leaning 

assessments of the ever-changing world 

threat environment. Your skills are 

essential to keeping our troops safe and 

strengthening our Nation’s defense. 

Sound interesting? Serve on our team 

specializing in STEM-related functional 

areas including:

• Aerospace Engineering.

• Biological Science.

• Chemistry.

• Computer Science.

• Data Science.

• Electrical Engineer.

• Mechanical Engineering.

• Nuclear Engineering.

RIGHT: Kineko, a Missile and Space 

Intelligence Center analyst, discusses missile 

capabilities during the Surface-to-Air Missile 

Systems Conference in Huntsville, Alabama.

Caleb

Mechanical Engineer

“As a DIA analyst, I perform 

scientific and technical 

analysis of foreign weapons 

systems to ensure our 

warfighters are safe and 

to inform U.S. weapons 

developers of how to defeat 

those threats. In my job, I 

get hands-on engineering 

experience with real military 

hardware, field testing 

experience, and I also get 

to use some of the world’s 

most sophisticated modeling 

and simulation software to 

perform intelligence analysis.”
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Organizations and Locations

DIA has officers in over 140 countries, 

providing opportunities to work and 

deploy around the world. 

Analysts are most often assigned to the 

following DIA offices and locations:

• Directorate for Analysis, located 

in the National Capital Region; 

Charlottesville, VA; Ft. Detrick, MD; 

and Huntsville, AL.

• Directorate for Operations, located 

in the National Capital Region.

• Directorate for Science and 

Technology, located in the National 

Capital Region.

• Integrated intelligence centers, 

located in the National Capital 

Region and Charlottesville, VA.

■ Americas and Transregional 

Threats Center.

■ Asia Pacific Regional Center. 

■ Europe/Eurasia Regional Center.

■ Middle East/Africa 

Regional Center.

• DoD Joint Staff, located in the

National Capital Region.

• Combatant Command Directorates

for Intelligence.

■ U.S. Africa Command, located 

in Stuttgart, Germany, and 

Molesworth, United Kingdom.

■ U.S. Central Command, located 

in Tampa, FL.

■ U.S. Cyber Command,

located at Fort Meade, MD.

■ U.S. European Command, located 

in Stuttgart, Germany, and 

Molesworth, United Kingdom.

■ U.S. Indo-Pacific Command,

located in Honolulu, HI.

■ U.S. Forces Korea, located in 

Pyeongtaek, South Korea.

■ U.S. Northern Command, located 

in Colorado Springs, CO.

■ U.S. Southern Command,

located in Miami, FL.

■ U.S. Space Command, located

in Colorado Springs, CO.

■ U.S. Special Operations Command, 

located in Tampa, FL.

■ U.S. Strategic Command,

located in Omaha, NE.

■ U.S. Transportation Command,

located in Belleville, IL.

TOP: DIA Headquarters, 

Washington, D.C.

RIGHT: U.S. Transportation Command 

Headquarters, Belleville, Illinois.
Do What Matters

DIA’s Unique Role

DIA is committed to excellence in defense

of the Nation. Leaders at all levels of the 

military and U.S. Government rely on DIA

for cutting-edge analysis, targeted 

collection and advanced technological 

expertise to support global military 

operations. We provide defense 

intelligence on foreign militaries and 

operating environments that delivers 

decision advantage to prevent and 

decisively win wars. Excellence begins 

with the support that each member of 

DIA and the greater Defense Intelligence 

Enterprise receives every day to complete 

the mission. With a global workforce of 

over 16,500 employees, DIA requires a 

robust, agile and skilled mission support 

team to provide administrative, physical 

and technical support while operating in 

complex threat environments.

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For more information on a career at DIA, visit our website:

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DIA&YOU

Your Career. Our Commitment.

DIA Career Fields

and Specialties

Analysis

• Advanced All-Source Methods

• Counterintelligence and 

Transnational

• Infrastructure and Resources

• Military Capabilities

• Scientific and Technical 

Intelligence

• Strategic and Regional Analysis

Counterintelligence

• Counterintelligence Agent

• Cover Support

Finance & Acquisition

• Acquisition Program 

Management

• Budget

• Contracting &

Procurement Analysis

• Finance & Accounting

• Requirements Manager & 

Contracting Officer Representative

Human Intelligence

• Clandestine Collection

• Operations Support

• Overt Collection

Human Services

• Behavioral Sciences

• Equal Employment

• Human Resources

• Training & Education

Information Technology

• Cyber Security

• IT Data Specialist

• IT Engineer

• IT Mission Support

• IT Specialist

Mission Management

• Collection Management

• Intelligence Operations 

Management

• International Affairs

• Joint Capability Development

& Intelligence Support to 

Acquisition

• Joint Intelligence Planning

• Joint Target Intelligence

• Policy & Strategy

Office Management

& Infrastructure

• Communications, 

Operations & Media

• Facilities

• Logistics

• Program Analysis & Management

• Staff Operations

Science & Technology

• Open-Source Intelligence

• Research & Development

• Technical Collection

• Technical Exploitation

• Technical Operations

Security

• Credibility Assessment

• Criminal Investigator

• Global Security

• Insider Threat

• Police

• Security Specialist

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