Imagery Standards Developer

Job Description

Join our team as a Senior Geospatial Imagery Specialist at Case Management Consulting!

** This role requires an active TS/SCI clearance (with the ability to obtain a CI poly) **

Your Impactful Duties:

Provide specialized advice and assistance on complex technical projects.

Independently performs a variety of system analysis, design and/or engineering tasks that are broad and innovative in nature.

Participates in national level steering and advisory groups, panels and committees.

Advises and mentor's technical personnel at all levels and reviews work for technical accuracy.

Guides the strategic growth of scientific imagery programs.

Ensure that current and future GEOINT standards satisfy capability requirements at the program and strategic levels across the NGA, the NSG, and the ASG.

Develop capability-based standards profiles & reference architectures to enable search, discovery, access, and retrieval; integrated intelligence and advanced analytics are enabled.

Performs multiple tasks at specialist level

Leads multiple Junior/Mid-level personnel

Evaluate and recommend new technology & processes based upon cost, risk, mission

Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on development of Still and/or Motion Imagery Standards with the objective of facilitating compliance and interoperability through integration of NSG & ASG requirements while reducing technical and schedule risk in the following functional areas:

o Still Imagery standards including, but not exclusive to:

NITF

NITF Extensions (MIE4NITF, SIDD, SICD, etc.)

NATO Imagery STANAGs (NSIF, for instance)

o Motion Imagery standards & phenomenology's including, but not exclusive to:

Electro Optical (EO)

Large Volume Motion Imagery (LVMI)/Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI)

Infrared Motion Imagery Standards (IR)

Multispectral Imaging (MSI)

Hyper spectral imaging (HSI)

Requirements:

Active TS/SCI clearance

Master's degree with 4 years of relevant experience, or bachelor's degree with 6 years of relevant experience

Associate degree with 8 years of relevant experience or a minimum of 8 years of experience in a relevant field

Skilled in developing and applying complex concepts and processes.

Able to write clear, concise, and well-organized documentation for technical standards.

Experienced with imaging sensor technologies and imagery collection, which provides a thorough understanding of the necessary information to describe image collection events.

Must understand the various aspects of image collection at both pixel and metadata levels.

Understanding of Imaging Process

- Concepts of sensors & how they work

- Concepts of sensor collection parameters

Understanding of Imaging Workflow

- Concepts of how imagery data flows from collection platform to exploitation system to archive

- Concepts of what processing or metadata additions can occur at the various steps in workflow

- Understanding of GEOINT Standards core components

File formats

- NITF is a byte-offset format so what are the pros/cons

- Be aware of other formats ISOBMFF, HDF5, TIFF/GEOTIFF, etc.

Metadata models vs Metadata encoding

- Understand abstract content models & organization from purpose perspective

- Sensor info, platform info, coordinate reference systems, security info, discovery & retrieval info, etc.

- Understand various metadata encodings (e.g., NITE TRE/SDE, KLV, XML, JSON, binary, etc.) and their pros/cons

Image formats vs Image compression

- Understand various ways to represent 2-D pixel array data, band/pixel interleaving, etc.

- Understand various image compression techniques, pros/cons of each, typically where each is used & why

Dissemination Protocols

- Block FTP vs Streaming protocols

- Encapsulation in IP or other server/client protocols

- Clear & concise technical writing to unambiguously convey technical concepts & guidance

Clearly define scope, define all terms in use, leverage EARS to convey requirements, use active voice, etc.

Have ability to write technical GEOINT standards with inputs from other SMEs

- Be proactive in finding information or understanding new topics

Ask questions, develop understanding to level that you can convey concepts to others

Consistently demonstrate willingness to learn & follow through

- Facilitate technical discussions with community experts

Scope topic appropriately, keep discussions on track to achieve desired outcome

Generate & present slides to all levels of audiences regarding GEOINT standards

Case Management Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

Full-time