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• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
• U.S. Military Services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Space Force, Coast Guard)
• State and Local Government Agencies
Private Sector
• National Security Contracting Firms (Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI, Leidos, SAIC, etc.)
• Tech Companies (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Palantir, etc.)
• Investment Firms (focused on geopolitical risk)
• International Corporations (global security divisions)
Research & Policy
• Federally Funded Research Centers (RAND, IDA, Aerospace Corporation)
• Think Tanks (Brookings, CSIS, Atlantic Council, Heritage, AEI, CFR)
• Academia (research universities with security studies programs)
• International and Local Non-Governmental Organizations
• Nonprofits (focused on national security issues
50+ Specific Job Titles to Search For
Use these exact titles when searching on USAJobs.gov, agency-specific portals, and clearance job boards:
Intelligence & Analysis
• Intelligence Analyst
• All-Source Intelligence Analyst
• Geospatial Intelligence Analyst
• Signals Intelligence Analyst
• Human Intelligence Collector
• Counterintelligence Analyst
• Threat Analyst
• Targeting Analyst
• Intelligence Operations Specialist
• Collection Management Officer
Cybersecurity & Technology
• Cybersecurity Analyst
• Information Security Specialist
• Cyber Threat Analyst
• Network Security Engineer
• Penetration Tester / Ethical Hacker
• Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst
• Digital Forensics Analyst
• Malware Analyst
• Cryptanalyst
• Data Scientist (Intelligence)
