Director, Strategic Analysis and Analytic Innovation Division

Summary

The Director, Strategic Analysis and Analytic Innovation Division serves as the senior expert for analytic methodology, responsible for developing and providing the advanced analytic methods, decision-support frameworks, and tooling that enable rigorous, data-driven analysis across the entire analytic enterprise. The incumbent leads the development and application of innovative methods to transform complex strategic and resource allocation challenges into tractable analytical problems.

Duties

• The Director, Strategic Analysis and Analytic Innovation Division sets the research and development agenda for the Department's analytic tradecraft. As the Director of the methodology and tradecraft center of excellence for all of CAPE, the incumbent is responsible for identifying, developing, validating, and promulgating the methodological substrate for the enterprise. Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Directs the creation and validation of analytic frameworks and oversees their application to the Department's most pressing defense challenges. The incumbent leads a staff of senior methodologists to translate complex policy and programming questions into analytically sound and defensible studies, ensuring that the methods used are appropriate, rigorous, and meet the highest standards of quality. Provides broad methodological guidance and leads DoW-wide analysis initiatives. As the principal representative for CAPE in the Analysis Working Group, the Deputy Director, Analysis and Innovation (A&I) will leverage the work of the incumbent to raise the analytical standards, including the methodologies, tradecraft, tools, and data sets that inform analysis Department-wide. Oversees the development and integration of analytic tools and models. The Director is responsible for a "consume-first" strategy, leveraging existing modeling and wargaming environments from external partners where capable tools exist. Where gaps are identified, the incumbent directs the development or evolution of complementary tools, decision-support connectors, and parametric models to meet the needs of the analytic community. Drives innovation in analytic tradecraft across the Department. This includes horizon-scanning for frontier methods from academia and industry, leading the adoption of new techniques for decision-making under deep uncertainty and scenario analysis, and responsibly integrating AI and automation to enhance the speed and scale of analysis. Represents the Deputy Director, A&I, and acts as the Deputy's principal point of contact for senior-level DoW, international, and National Security Council activities related to analytic methods and innovation. In this regard, the incumbent serves as a member of steering groups composed of high-level officials from DoW, foreign governments, the NSC staff, and other government agencies and special commissions.

Requirements

You must be a U.S. citizen to qualify for this position. All newly appointed Career SES leaders must sign the Reassignment Rights Obligations Agreement as a condition of appointment into the SES. You must submit to a drug test and receive a negative drug test before you can be appointed into this position. Designated and/or Random Drug Testing required. In order to qualify for this position, you must be able to obtain a Top Secret security clearance and access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). Submit resume and all other required documents online by 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time on 08/07/2026 The individual selected will be required to file an 'Executive Branch Personnel Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-278) in accordance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. You will serve a one-year probationary period unless you have previously completed the probationary period in the SES. Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see https://www.sss.gov/Home/Registration).

Education

**TRANSCRIPTS MUST BE PROVIDED** Operations Research Series 1515 Individual Occupational Requirements Basic Requirements: Degree: in operations research; or at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/operations-research-series-1515/