TESA Instructor

Fort Meade, MD

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Prime Time Consulting provides clients with expert intelligence analysis services. Our clients include defense contractors, industrial and service corporations, and departments and agencies of the U.S. Federal Government. 

We are actively searching for TESA Instructor, located in Maryland to support our team. We have varying levels of this position, depending on years of experience and education.


Essential Job Duties

  • The Technical Electronic Intelligence-Signals Analysis (TESA) Course Developer-Instructor is responsible for course development and instruction on technical analysis of radars, jammers, and other electronic emanations from developmental and fielded systems used for warfighting, national security, criminal activities, and other purposes. It also includes analysis on intelligence derived from the sources such as radar and jammer emissions, aircraft, spacecraft. missile command links and telemetry, automated beaconing, navigation, and tracking control systems, and the existence and parameters (but not content) of radio frequency communications used for warfighting, security, criminal activities, and/or other purposes.

The TESA Course Developer-Instructor must possess the following capabilities:

  • Developing accurate signal chronologies and determination of relationships between related signals for accurate event correlation and reconstruction.
  • Providing feedback to improve ELINT collection tasking and processing and/or production of tuning updates for national processors to improve automated ELINT reporting;
  • Updating or creating entries for national ELINT databases in accordance to established standards;
  • Analyzing multiple data sets and utilization of ELINT terminology within presentation and communications providing cohesive ELINT analysis findings in accord with SIGINT reporting standards;
  • Using signals analysis tools, techniques, and procedures to make precise measurements of BLINT parameters including such things as radio frequency, inter/intrapulse modulation, pulse duration, and scan.
  • Soliciting and receiving course feedback from students and other people and timely incorporating appropriate feedback into courses and presentations.
  • Maintaining expertise in TESA.
  • Developing new TESA courses, modules, and presentations while ensuring the accuracy and currency of existing ones.
  • Using good communication skills when working with others in the development, presentation, and updating of TESA teaching and course material.


Required Qualifications

  • The TESA Training Course Developer-Instructor requires 2 or more years of technical teaching experience and/or technical curriculum development (e.g., military courses, academia or industry classroom (faculty/adjunct), On-the-job (OJT) instruction) with additional qualifications for Levels 1 and 2 below
    • The TESA Training Course Developer-Instructor requires the following:
      • 10 or more years ofTESA experience (within the past 15 years); and
      • Prior successful completion of SIGE Course 3810 "Intermediate Technical ELINT Analysis" or SIGE Course 4810 "Advanced Radar Theory" or a Published Technical Paper in a TechSIGINT related area.
    • If the candidate has a Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in a technical science major (Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physical Sciences, or comparable area):
      • o        8 or more years of TESA operations experience (within the past 15 years).
    • A candidate requires experience in one or more of the following:
      • PYTHON coding;
      • MATLAB coding;
      • Machine Leaming;
      • Data Science.
    • A candidate requires experience in three or more of the following:
      • Incorporation of range/velocity corridor plots;
      • MTI interpretation;
      • Bistatic reflection analysis;
      • P-cubed analysis and measurements (power, pattern, polarization);
      • New signal identification;
      • Multiple SIGINT formats into TESA-related analyses, reports, and products;
      • Screening and decimating of large data files;
      • Interpretative analysis;
      • Fusion analysis;
      • Electronic Attack analysis.

Company Perks

  • 200 hours of PTO annually
  • 6% 401k Contribution
  • Competitive Health Care Options
  • Short Term/Long Term/Life Insurance
  • Annual Training Budget

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Career development Insurance

Region: North America
Country: United States

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