Acquisition Specialist

U.S. Army Intelligence and Security CommandFort Meade, Marylandusajobspublished 09/24/2026
Must-have:Senior

About the Position: This position is in the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). Employees occupying DCIPS positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the ST-IC-W0JAAA US ARMY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE COMMAND.

Major duties

  • Recommends and establishes new contract acquisition strategies to satisfy emerging intelligence requirements.
  • Serves as the command's senior technical advisor to other CORs and Technical Task Managers on research, problem-solving, and remedial actions.
  • Analyzes burn-rate and manning trends across a contract portfolio to project future-year funding needs.
  • Negotiates resolution of contentious performance, scope, or funding issues among commands, contracting offices, and vendors.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Civilian Employees of the Organization Army DCIPS positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement. In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as experience developing, coordinating, and monitoring contractual documents and actions as a Contracting Officer's Representative; preparing Government cost estimates, contract funding documents, and multi-year budget and program funding forecasts; AND preparing and presenting briefings and reports on contract and task order status to senior leadership. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS/GG-12). Progressively responsible experience is that which has included intelligence-related research, analysis, collections and /or operations. This experience should have included intelligence analysis and/or production, intelligence collection and/or operations, counterintelligence, or threat support directly related to the position to be filled. This experience should demonstrate: Knowledge of intelligence processes, cycle and organizations; Knowledge of and/or ability to use research tools such as library holdings, photographs, statistics, graphics and maps; Knowledge of the systems, procedures and methods of analyzing, compiling, reporting and disseminating intelligence data; and/or Knowledge of organization(s) for and methods of collecting and analyzing intelligence data.