--- title: 'CI Specialist at Core One' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ci-specialist-core-one-charlottesville-y57jxdfd6e1b' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-26' --- # CI Specialist at Core One - **Company:** Core One - **Location:** Charlottesville, VA - **Posted:** 2026-09-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coreone/jobs/8816807002 ## Job description Join our team at Core One! Our mission is to be at the forefront of devising analytical, operational and technical solutions to our Nation's most complex national security challenges. In order to achieve our mission, Core One values people first! We are committed to recruiting, nurturing, and retaining top talent! We offer a competitive total compensation package that sets us apart from our competition. Core One is a team-oriented, dynamic, and growing company that values exceptional performance! *This position requires a TS/SCI Clearance.* *This position is contingent on award* *This position may require up to six months of deployment annually* Responsibilities: - Identify, monitor, and assess foreign intelligence efforts targeting sensitive U.S. national security information, personnel, activities, capabilities, and interests. - Analyze foreign intelligence capabilities, collection activities, targeting methodologies, and TTPs to identify threats to U.S. persons, operations, technologies, and national security interests. - Assess threats posed by emerging technologies and foreign technology developments to U.S. operations, activities, capabilities, and interests. - Evaluate U.S. and foreign partner counterintelligence capabilities, collection activities, and TTPs to identify vulnerabilities, indicators, and potential foreign intelligence threats. - Conduct in-depth CI research and all-source analysis to identify, correlate, and assess foreign intelligence activities, networks, targeting patterns, capabilities, and collection objectives. - Develop and produce all-source CI studies, assessments, reports, briefings, and other intelligence products addressing foreign intelligence threats and operational vulnerabilities. - Apply CI analytic tradecraft and all-source intelligence to support the development and refinement of CI strategies, priorities, and operational approaches. - Present CI assessments, threat findings, and analytic judgments to government, military, intelligence, and mission-partner audiences. - Develop, coordinate, and deliver programs of instruction covering specified collection operations TTPs, processes, and supporting activities relevant to HUMINT and TECHINT operations conducted under DoD authorities. - Develop instructional materials and practical training content tailored to operational requirements, collection activities, and applicable DoD policies and authorities. - Apply knowledge gained through completion of an in-residence Fundamentals of Intelligence Analysis course or Military Service equivalent to support CI research, analysis, production, and training activities. Levels: - Junior: Minimum of one year of experience conducting analysis relevant to this Labor Category - Mid: Minimum of three (3) years of experience conducting analysis relevant to this Labor Category - Senior: Minimum of eight (8) years of experience conducting analysis relevant to this Labor Category - Expert: Minimum of twelve (12) years of experience conducting analysis relevant to this Labor Category Qualifications: - Experience applying counterintelligence concepts, principles, methodologies, and analytic tradecraft to identify, assess, and mitigate foreign intelligence threats. - Experience applying IC and DoD classification guidelines, security requirements, and information-handling procedures to CI research, analysis, intelligence production, and training activities. - Experience working semi-independently with limited oversight to conduct CI research, threat analysis, intelligence production, and mission support. - Experience evaluating and synthesizing multiple intelligence sources to identify foreign intelligence capabilities, activities, collection efforts, targeting patterns, TTPs, networks, and objectives. - Experience developing and defending CI analytic judgments using logical conclusions and supporting evidence, and adapting assessments based on new intelligence, evolving conditions, and emerging threats. - Experience identifying nuances, contradictions, inconsistencies, intelligence gaps, and indicators within foreign intelligence and counterintelligence reporting. - Experience applying structured analytic techniques and alternative methodologies to examine biases, assumptions, competing hypotheses, and uncertainty; strengthen analytic arguments; and identify potential foreign intelligence threats and indicators. - Experience conducting structured CI research, including obtaining, evaluating, correlating, organizing, and maintaining information in accordance with applicable security, classification, and data-handling requirements. - Experience assessing foreign intelligence collection capabilities and limitations, including HUMINT, technical collection, emerging technologies, and other intelligence disciplines relevant to CI operations. - Experience evaluating U.S. and foreign partner CI capabilities, collection activities, and TTPs to identify vulnerabilities, threats, indicators, and opportunities to strengthen CI strategies. - Experience evaluating intelligence and CI reporting and collaborating with collection managers, collectors, analysts, and mission partners to identify intelligence gaps and develop, refine, and prioritize collection requirements. - Experience assessing emerging technologies and their potential application by foreign intelligence services to target U.S. persons, activities, capabilities, operations, and national security interests. - Experience producing timely, concise, and analytically rigorous CI studies, threat assessments, reports, briefings, and other intelligence products using Microsoft Office applications, electronic matrices, and web-enabled tools. - Experience communicating complex CI issues, foreign intelligence threats, analytic judgments, and recommendations clearly and concisely through written products, briefings, presentations, and verbal engagements. - Experience developing and delivering instruction on collection operations TTPs, processes, and supporting activities relevant to HUMINT and TECHINT operations under applicable DoD authorities. - Completion of an in-residence Fundamentals of Intelligence Analysis course or Military Service equivalent. Security Clearance: - TS/SCI Clearance Salary Range: $60,000 - $135,000 This range reflects Core One Solutions' current good-faith estimate for this labor category based on proposed contract pricing and comparable labor category rates. As this position is contingent upon contract award, final compensation will be confirmed based on the awarded contract's negotiated rates, applicable wage determinations, clearance requirements, and the selected candidate's experience and qualifications. Core One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. ## __PRESENT__PRESENT__PRESENT__PRESENT ## __PRESENT ## __PRESENT__PRESENT ## __PRESENT ## About Core One ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Core One delivers analytical, operational, and technical solutions to the most complex national security challenges facing the U.S. government. - **Entity Type**: Private (revenue-funded, no disclosed funding rounds) - **Headquarters**: Sterling, Virginia, USA - **Founded**: 2013 - **Founders**: Patrick Moniz (CEO & Co‑founder), Joseph Koo (President & Co‑founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Defense, national security, intelligence, space manufacturing - **Target customers**: U.S. government agencies (DoD, Intelligence Community, Special Operations) - **Mission/purpose**: “Deliver solutions that anticipate and address the most complex challenges facing the U.S. national security community,” helping clients “secure enduring strategic dominance.” ## Products & Services - **Mission Integration**: Fuses intelligence and defense expertise to craft solutions across blurred mission boundaries. - **Intelligence Analysis**: Enables the intelligence community to produce actionable intelligence for threat mitigation. - **Defense Programs**: Partners with the Department of Defense to deliver capabilities that deter aggression and ensure global stability. - **Operational Support**: Provides advisory to the highest levels of the U.S. national security and defense apparatus. - **Training & Logistics**: Designs and conducts over 5,000 exercises, red cells, and test environments; runs advanced special operations training courses. - **Strategic Services**: Advisory, planning, and synchronization support for strategic initiatives. - **Custom Technical Solutions**: Builds and scales secure, scalable technical solutions (30+ unique solutions delivered). - **All-Source Analysis, Cyber Security, Data Science, DevOps, Cloud Architecture**: Various technical service lines deployed across 117 locations worldwide. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed - **Annual Revenue**: ~$27M (as of ~2025, per LinkedIn data) - **Headcount**: 107 employees (37% year‑over‑year growth, +50 people) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors disclosed. Key government partners include USSOCOM, DoD, and Intelligence Community agencies. Board member Mac Curtis joined in June 2025. - **Growth Signals**: - Awarded USSOCOM J59 Futures Planning and Synchronization Prime Contract (Jan 2025) - Awarded IC Division contract in Northern Virginia expanding software, data, and DevOps capabilities (Feb 2025) - Acquired Calhoun International (Dec 2024) and Global Research Analytics (Feb 2023) - Active job postings: 86 (monthly +21%, quarterly +19%, yearly +51%) ## Competitive Advantages - **Mission focus**: Deep specialization in U.S. national security with a singular focus on government partners. - **Discretion & trust**: Operates with “utmost discretion” to maintain operational security – a cornerstone of long‑term partner relationships. - **Integrated intelligence‑defense capability**: Bridges intelligence and defense communities, offering seamless support across mission sets. - **Proven scale**: Has rapidly established and scaled operations at 117 CONUS/OCONUS locations. - **Talent pipeline**: Attracts experienced professionals from top defense contractors (e.g., Amentum, PAE, SAIC, GDIT). ## Strategic Focus - Continue geographic and capability expansion through strategic acquisitions and prime contract wins. - Grow technical services (software, data, DevOps, cloud) to complement traditional intelligence and operational support. - Deepen relationships with USSOCOM, IC, and DoD by delivering integrated, forward‑leaning solutions. - Maintain elite training and exercise capabilities to simulate modern threat environments. ## Why Work Here - **Meaningful work**: Employees support critical national security missions that protect the country, with a culture of “relentless dedication.” - **Culture**: Collegial, principled, and mission‑first; described as “highly effective team” that values adaptability, discretion, and integrity. - **Benefits**: - Competitive, market‑based compensation and performance bonuses - 6% 401(k) company match, vested immediately - Health, dental, vision insurance (individual & family) - Paid time off, 11 paid federal holidays, parental leave (paid for new parents) - Flexible Spending Accounts (medical and child‑care, tax‑free) - Life & disability insurance at no cost - Training and certification reimbursements - **Career growth**: Individual development plans; roles span Intelligence Analysis, Operations, Corporate, Application Development, Training & Logistics. - **Locations**: Sterling, VA (HQ) and sites across the U.S. and overseas (Philippines). Many roles require TS/SCI clearance and may involve travel. - **Work environment**: Hybrid/office based on mission needs; emphasis on collaboration and focused teamwork. ## Sources 1. [Core One – About](https://www.coreone.com/company) 2. [Core One – Careers](https://www.coreone.com/careers) 3. [Core One – Homepage](https://www.coreone.com/) 4. [Core One – Job Board (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coreone) 5. 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