Geospatial Analyst

The primary support shall be to acquire, analyze, evaluate, extract, and compile georeferenced products in support of standard product requirements. The contractor shall use knowledge of NGA’s standard product as it relates to AOR, Chart Series, and marginalia data for press operations to include creating and providing information on Mapping, Charting, & Geodesy (MC&G), Foundation GEOINT (FG), Content, and Safety of Navigation (SoN) for ingest and population into a CADRG/ECRG title..

What You'll be Owning

Create, update, and manage geospatial information system databases and products.

Research using ArcGIS and QGIS software and common office business software (e.g., word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, and internet browsers) and use internet and other general research tools. Sources regularly used include: native maps, secondary source maps, historic maps used for extraction and comparison, textual documents, Internet sources and imagery at various resolutions. Services will result in the creation of shapefiles, geo-databases, and data retrieval/storage.

Use GEODEC software to geo-reference and de-collar required charts for production and apply appropriate metadata. Team members are expected to learn the software thoroughly and have a firm understanding of georeferencing procedures.

Team members shall assist the CADRG lead with testing procedures, offering feedback and notes.

Team members shall communicate at times with the CADRG development team, always looping in the CADRG Lead, for technical issues and troubleshooting. Team members may also attend technical meetings the pertain to the creation of CDRG and ECRG.

Team members shall be responsible for copying completed data to the appropriate data stores on the Gateway and at times, run scripts to ensure data is formatted correctly. Putty software is used for these purposes.

Design and implement modernized approaches to GeoDec and ACCORD software to improve functionality, efficiency, and automation capabilities.

Apply AI/ML techniques to improve georeferencing accuracy and efficiency in the GEODEC process.

Develop and maintain APIs for integration with other NGA systems and databases to enhance CADRG/ECRG production workflows.

What You Must Have

US Citizen with TS/SCI security clearance and ability to obtain a CI Polygraph

Minimum of 5 years of experience with college courses in relevant specialty.

Knowledge of various NGA products and maps to include topographic, hydrographic, and aeronautical – especially aeronautical and vertical obstruction products

Georeferencing Data analysis and Analytics

Familiar with Rimage and Bartender software output files

Familiar with ArcGIS Suite

What Would be Nice to Have

Experience in GEODEC and ACCORD software Suites

Oracle Database experience

.Net, Python, C++ and/or JAVA Programming