DIA Entry-Level Engineering Analyst

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Professional: Positions with duties and responsibilities that primarily involve professional or
specialized work that requires the interpretation and application of concepts, theories, and
judgment. As a minimum, all groups in this category require either a bachelor’s degree or
equivalent experience for entry. However, some occupations in this category have positive education
requirements (i.e., a requirement for a particular type or level of academic degree). This work
category features multiple career progression stages and work levels.

CAREER FIELD DEFINITION

Officers in this Career Field include all-source analysts, managers, and operations staff involved in researching information from multiple sources from which they gain insight that is then conveyed in a manner most appropriate for intelligence consumers. Officers conduct strategic, regional, and counterintelligence analysis; assess foreign military capabilities, infrastructures and resources essential to sustain defense forces. They analyze transnational issues such as illicit networks, foreign intelligence, and terrorist activities; scientifically and technologically assess advanced weapons and capabilities; and analyze emerging and disruptive technologies with potential military applications. This Career Field incorporates the analytic operations and knowledge management that enables the Defense Intelligence Enterprise to ensure quality products and services are available for defense intelligence clients.

CAREER SPECIALITY DEFINITION
Conventional Weapons/systems, space/counter space systems, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) programs, emerging/disruptive technology, technology transfer, and medical intelligence. Assesses current and future technical characteristics and capabilities of foreign advanced and conventional military (including dual use civilian) systems (weapons, platforms, sensors, countermeasures) in development, in operation, and actual lethal effect when employed in combat against US and allied platforms and personnel. Analyze research and development capabilities, programs, and infrastructure associated with foreign military systems, weapons/sensor testing and evaluation, production, and proliferation. Evaluates technical characteristics, performance, signatures, capabilities, vulnerabilities, and employment of all systems, sensors, facilities, and hardware normally considered part of current and projected space/counter space platforms, programs, networks, and support systems. Assesses the developments and trends in foreign scientific and technical capabilities that impact future applications in military defense and national security to prevent technology surprise to the US and allied forces, or provide opportunity of domestic defense development. Analyzes foreign ballistic missile systems (including WMD payloads) and the proliferation of missile systems or critical components, technology, production capability, specialty materials, or expertise to countries or groups hostile to US national security interests. Assesses information on foreign nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs and actors (includes dual-use technology and materials) with focus on proliferation of knowledge, technology, equipment, and material related to countries or terrorist groups who threaten US interests. Evaluates intelligence on capabilities and characteristics of foreign military offensive and defensive WMD weapons and warfare systems, both operational and in development. Assesses the long-range future strategic environment, military forces, and key global and regional trends/actors to anticipate emerging challenges and opportunities to shape the future. Analyzes infectious disease; chemical and radiation risks and countermeasures; medical science and technology developments; global health systems and capabilities of state and non-state actors.

Basic Requirements:
A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or
technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and
mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both
theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their
applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background
must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern
(EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any
State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of
qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by
means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are
eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of
their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State
Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated
eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.

2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of
Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of
Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's
degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics,

chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may
be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has
had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional
engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an
established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering
competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g.,
in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)

Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as
noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors
indicate otherwise.

Additional Experience and Training Provisions for Graduates of Engineering Programs:
a. Superior academic achievement at the baccalaureate level in an engineering program is qualifying for GS-7.
b. A combination of superior academic achievement and 1 year of appropriate professional experience is qualifying at GS-9.
c. Applicants with an engineering bachelor’s degree who have appropriate experience as a technician equivalent to grade GS-5 or higher may have such experience credited for grade GS-7 only on a month-for-month basis up to a maximum of 12 months.
d. Successful completion of a 5-year program of study of at least 160 semester hours leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering is qualifying at GS-7. Completion of such a program and 1 year of appropriate professional experience is qualifying at grade GS-9

Graduate Education:
1. Regardless of the field of undergraduate study, completion of the requirements for a master’s or higher degree in engineering is fully qualifying for the grade indicated, provided the applicant’s total background, i.e., education and any experience, demonstrates evidence of knowledge, skills, and abilities that are substantially equivalent to those acquired through the successful completion of the courses specified in paragraph A.

2. With a bachelor’s degree in engineering, graduate education in a related field is acceptable in lieu of graduate study in engineering for appropriate types of positions. For example, a Bachelor of Science in engineering plus a master’s degree in business administration would be qualifying for Industrial Engineer, GS-9, but not for GS-9laboratory positions in research and development. The key consideration in determining if such graduate education should be credited is whether or not the education provided the knowledges, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the work of the position being filled.


Occupations Covered by GG-800 Individual Requirements
Occupation Title Series Number
General Engineering Series GG-801
Safety Engineering Series GG-803
Fire Protection Engineering Series GG-804
Materials Engineering Series GG-806
Civil Engineering Series GG-810
Environmental Engineering Series GG-819
Mechanical Engineering Series GG-830
Nuclear Engineering Series GG-840
Electrical Engineering Series GG-850
Computer Engineering Series GG-854
Electronics Engineering Series GG-855
Biomedical Engineering Series GG-858
Aerospace Engineering Series GG-861
Naval Architecture Series GG-871
Mining Engineering Series GG-880
Petroleum Engineering Series GG-881
Agricultural Engineering Series GG-890
Ceramic Engineering Series GG-892
Chemical Engineering Series GG-893
Welding Engineering Series GG-894
Industrial Engineering Series GG-896