DIRECTORATE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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Directorate of Science and Technology
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Working at the leading
edge of technology
you have invested time,
money, and effort in devel-
oping your career potential.
Now, you want a career in which you
can be sure that your potential will
be fulfilled ? and rewarded. The
Central Intelligence Agency's Direc-
torate of Science and Technology
offers you that and more. We offer a
chance to make a positive contribution
to national security and world peace, a
chance to embark on a career that can
make a difference.
Your professional career with the
Directorate of Science and Technology
(DS&T) will often mean exploring
technology that is well beyond the state
of the art. As a DS&T professional,
you may be working to solve an imme-
diate problem. . . you may be applying
personal initiative to develop technol-
ogy that will answer an anticipated
need. . . or you may be working on
long-range concepts that are far
beyond the purview of academia and
private industry. We do all these
things and more. It is an exciting
environment, full of enthusiasm that
comes naturally when scientific and
technical professionals are encouraged
to put their creativity and innovation
to full use.
The Directorate of
Science and Technology
(DS&T) is the technical
arm of the CIA.
The Directorate of Science and
Technology is one of the four major
components of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency. The other three direc-
torates have the primary roles in oper-
ations, analysis, and administration.
The DS&T has a wide range of
responsibilities in the development
and application of technology to meet
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intelligence needs. This includes
exploratory research and development;
the design, development, and opera-
tion of both large-scale systems and
specialized equipment; and the collec-
tion, processing, and analysis of print,
broadcast, photographic, and signals
intelligence.
The historical role of
technology in intelligence.
Collecting and evaluating informa-
tion about one's environment and the
threats it may contain have always
been critical to man's survival. As
early as the 5th century B.C., the Chi-
nese military strategist Sun Tzu rec-
ognized the importance of good intel-
ligence. "To win 100 battles is not the
acme of skill. To find security without
fighting is the acme of skill."
Throughout history, as technology
has developed it has been applied to
the intelligence-gathering process.
Intelligence professionals were
assisted by developments such as
code-breaking techniques and tools,
invisible ink, the telescope, camera,
and telegraph. Basically, however,
the technology was simple and the
intelligence was focused on military
concerns until well into the 1900s.
Since the establishment, in 1947, of
the Central Intelligence Agency, the
world has changed considerably. From
an initial military focus, the intelligence
effort has expanded to all areas of
international concern. More and more
data are required to effectively evaluate
the capabilities, intentions, and re-
sources of potential adversaries. The
technological revolution since the
founding of the Agency has provided
the means to collect and evaluate this
type of information. The DS&T has
grown from a small part of the CIA to
a major directorate with the mission of
devising better means of collecting and
using intelligence via technical means,
against both current and future threats.
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The DS&T plays a
crucial part in the
intelligence process.
The "business" of any intelligence
organization is the collection, process-
ing, analysis, and presentation of
information. Within the CIA, the
Directorate of Science and Technology
has a role in each of these intelligence
functions. We conceptualize and
develop new technologies to aid in
intelligence collection and to support
agents in the field. We apply the most
advanced technical innovations to aid
in information processing and analysis,
and we develop advanced technical
means to get the intelligence and anal-
ysis to senior policymakers in the most
useful form.
DS&T professionals support the
highest echelons of the U.S. Govern-
ment. All national policymakers de-
pend upon reliable and comprehensive
information about world events. The
technical means developed within the
DS&T enhance the quality of the
collection, analysis, and presentation of
the information upon which decisions
of major importance are founded.
How the DS&T is
organized.
The diverse activities of the DS&T
are interrelated and may be divided
into two main functions: (1) infor-
mation collection, processing, and
analysis, and (2) the development of
supporting technology. The first
involves information gathered from
various sources ? foreign broadcast
and print media, signals, and photo-
graphy. The other main category of
DS&T activities involves the concep-
tion, development, and production of
the most advanced technologies and
systems to support the collection, pro-
cessing, and analysis of information.
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A challenging
career with unequaled
opportunities
V?
n the DS&T, you will be
working with the best?the
best people iii a wide range of
technical and scientific disciplines and
in the best environment available. You
will be dealing with technologies as
advanced as, and in some cases more
advanced than, any found in private
industry or academia, while interact-
ing with top university and industry
specialists. Many DS&T staff
members participate in interagency
intelligence committees and working
groups with high visibility within
the Intelligence Community.
Advantages are unique ...
and opportunities for
advancement are many.
While working with the best people
and resources, you will also find that
the DS&T allows its professionals a
larger scope of responsibility earlier
than is generally the case in private
industry. DS&T officers are often proj-
ect managers, guiding their programs
from conception to application.
There may be fewer constraints
than in the commercial sector,
because national security often calls
for one-of-a-kind, limited-production
developments. Unique problems
demand unique solutions. And our
engineers and other professionals
have the most advanced resources and
the responsibility to use them in
achieving those solutions.
Along with early and comprehensive
responsibility can come rapid advance-
ment and many other advantages:
? Promotions are competitive and based
on your accomplishments. You are
given additional responsibilities as
soon as you are ready to assume
them.
? You can select the career direction
you prefer. You may specialize in one
field or subject, expand your exper-
tise to cover several fields, or concen-
trate on developing managerial skills.
And you may switch career directions
as your career progresses and your
interests change.
? You will be working on important
projects at the leading edge of your
field of interest.
? You may have direct contact with
senior U.S. officials and policymakers
as an important part of your job.
? You will associate with senior experts
in your field, not only at the CIA but
also in other government agencies, in
universities, and in private industry.
? You will have access to extensive
information.
? You may have opportunities for travel
and overseas assignment.
? Some persons who join us directly
from college will enter the Career
Training Program, an intensive one-
year study of the CIA, the In-
telligence Community, and the intel-
ligence process. All career trainees
receive instruction in the specialties of
each of the directorates and in-depth
training in the work of the directorate
to which they will be assigned.
DS&T trainees take a three-week
directorate course designed to convey
a sense of technical issues and
increase awareness of the DS&T's
tasks and responsibilities. Career
trainees also serve several interim
assignments, each ten to twelve
weeks, in Agency offices. The pro-
gram is conducted primarily in the
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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Career benefits and
continuing training are
excellent.
We seek to offer you salaries and
career benefits competitive with those
of academic institutions and private
industry. There is ample provision for
rapid advancement based upon merit.
There are also several awards systems
which provide for additional recogni-
tion of exceptional performance.
Staff members participate in ex-
cellent life and health insurance pro-
grams and benefit from generous
provisions for annual leave and sick
leave. Upon retirement, you will be
eligible for benefits under the Federal
Employee Retirement System. Posi-
tions that involve overseas assignment
include pay differentials, cost-of-living
and housing allowances, 100% medical
and hospitalization coverage, educa-
tional allowances for children, and
liberal home leave.
The DS&T supports graduate
study, provides a variety of training
courses throughout your career, and
offers opportunities for sabbaticals.
You learn on the job by tackling
increasingly demanding projects and
through interaction with senior col-
leagues and national leaders. You also
increase your knowledge and capabili-
ties by formal training. We encourage
and support advanced study at uni-
versities and offer you a wide range of
specialized courses given internally.
This emphasis on self-improvement
and professional development con-
tinues throughout your career.
As part of your training and career
growth, you may have the opportunity
for foreign travel or for temporary
assignment abroad, although willing-
ness to serve abroad is not a require-
ment for most positions in the DS&T.
Many of our professionals have
experience in private industry,
academia, or other government agen-
cies. Interchange with outside or-
ganizations for purposes of career
growth and professional skill
improvement is encouraged.
DS&T staff members actively
participate in professional organiza-
tions, conferences, and symposia, and
may sometimes publish the results of
personal research.
Washington, D.C. is your
home base.
The CIA Headquarters is located
in suburban Virginia, only seven
miles from Washington, D.C. Most
DS&T offices are outside the head-
quarters area, at several locations in
Washington and Virginia. There is a
wide choice of where to live ? in the
city of Washington, in the adjacent
suburbs of Virginia or Maryland, or in
the countryside.
Washington, D.C., one of the most
beautiful cities in the country, is a
highly cosmopolitan area. It is home
to several fme universities, the Smith-
sonian Institution, and many other
excellent museums and art galleries.
Theater and music in Washington at
the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, the
National Theater, and elsewhere are
second to none.
Washington and its surroundings
have fine dining, shopping, and top-
quality sports teams, both college and
professional. Cultural, historical, and
entertainment activities abound . . .
and the seashore or mountains are
only a few hours away.
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Challenging positions are
available in many
The Directorate of Science and
Technology seeks applicants from a
wide variety of disciplines and expe-
rience. Areas of opportunity in many
of these disciplines are described in
detail on subsequent pages. If you
have a bachelor's degree, master's
degree, or a doctorate in a scientific or
technical subject ? or skills and expe-
rience in any of the other areas or dis-
ciplines in the following list ? the
chances are good that we can offer you
an interesting career.
Automated Manufacturing/
CAD/CAM
Business Administration
Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
Communications
Computer Science
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?artificial intelligence
?data base management
?expert systems
?hardware and software design
?networking
?operations
?programming
?systems analysis
Contract/Project Management
Crafts & Trades:
plastics, leather, wood, tools and
dies, printing, engraving, art,
papermaking, bookbinding,
ceramics, modelmaking, inks and
dyes, cabinetmaking
Economics/Econometrics
Electro-optics
Engineering
?aeronautical
?aerospace
?civil
?design
?electrical/electronic
?general
?human factors
?industrial
?mechanical
?nuclear
?structural
Foreign Area Studies
Geography
Graphic Design/Illustration
History
Imagery Analysis
International Relations
Journalism
Languages
Laser Technology
Library/Documentation Science
Life Sciences
Materials Science
Mathematics
Medicine
Microelectronics
Military Science
Modeling and Simulation
Photogranametry
Photography/Video
Physics
Political Science
Power Source/Storage Technology
Psychology
Radar/Antenna Design
Satellite Technology
Sensing Technology
Signal Processing/Analysis
Social Science
Telemetry
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Information collection
and processing put
critical facts into the
hands of policymakers.
The Directorate of Science and
Technology plays a central
role in the intelligence pro-
cess in a number of ways, one of which
involves worldwide technical collec-
tion, processing, and analysis of
information. This information ? the
basic ingredient of all intelligence ?
comes in a variety of forms.
International open-media
information processing
provides an overview.
All foreign print and broadcast
information has potential intelligence
value. Radio, television, newspapers,
and periodicals are openly published
or broadcast internationally every
day. This information is carefully
monitored through high-frequency
receivers, satellite channels, sub-
scriptions, news agencies, wire ser-
vices, foreign data bases, and other
overt means. Articles, broadcasts, and
books selected for translation and
transmission to the United States are
part of a critical information pipeline
for national policymakers and intelli-
gence analysts.
It is the role of the Foreign Broad-
cast Information Service (FBIS) to
monitor, select, process, translate,
edit, analyze, and disseminate a huge
volume of collected information. The
information processed every day is
distributed via an unclassified wire
service, a daily report, serial reports,
and other specialized publications.
People from many disciplines are
involved, including language officers,
editors, analysts, communications
specialists, data base managers,
experts in automated data base search
and retrieval, and engineers and tech-
nicians for maintenance of overseas
installations. Overseas travel or
assignment is a part of many FBIS
career positions.
Worldwide signal
collection and analysis
broaden our world view.
Signals intelligence is a specialized
science. It requires the collection, pro-
cessing, and analysis of signals, inad-
vertent electromagnetic radiation, and
other signals-related data, and being
responsive to foreign technological
advances. Signals intelligence, a vital
element in maintaining our knowledge
of the current state of world affairs, is
a product of the Office of SIGINT
Operations (0S0).
The OSO mission demands that we
work at the forefront of appropriate
technologies. We develop, operate, and
maintain highly sophisticated equip-
ment that allows us to perform signal
collection, processing, and analysis with
maximum reliability and efficiency.
Career positions include electronic
engineers, physicists, computer pro-
grammers, signal operators, electronic
technicians, operations analysts,
mathematicians, signal analysts, and
linguists. Opportunities for foreign
travel or assignment exist for selected
positions.
Signals intelligence is of direct con-
cern to the President, National Secur-
ity Council, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and
others involved in the shaping of
national policy, as well as to analysts
throughout the Intelligence Commun-
ity responsible for providing multi-
source information and analysis on
issues of national security.
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Comprehensive imagery
interpretation and analysis
help clarify our picture of
world affairs.
Visual imagery also plays a vital role
in the intelligence process. The images
come in all forms and from a wide
array of sources ? newspapers, hand-
held cameras, aircraft, television, and
electromagnetic devices. It is the role
of the National Photographic Inter-
pretation Center (NPIC) to analyze
imagery from these varied sources and
to provide basic intelligence data on
crucial subjects such as military forces,
military equipment production, arms
control, and natural disasters.
Imagery analysts have the job of
interpreting and evaluating the signifi-
cance of the imagery received. Our
analysts are largely liberal arts and
social science generalists, with back-
grounds in international affairs, eco-
nomics, political science, history, geo-
graphy, earth sciences area studies,
and other disciplines. The imagery
analyst develops expertise in specific
issues and geographic regions, coordi-
nating analyses with other experts in
the Intelligence Community and con-
tributing to published intelligence
reports.
Imagery scientists are needed to
enhance the quality of some imagery, to
conduct engineering studies on imaging
systems and equipment, to provide
measurements from the imagery, and to
develop, modify, and maintain special-
ized equipment. These tasks involve
work with the latest image science
equipment, including measuring com-
parators, image digitizers, digital image
displays, and advanced computers.
Image science positions require aback-
ground in mathematics, electrical and
electronic engineering, photographic
science, statistics, photogrammetry,
remote sensing, physics, computer
science, or digital signal processing.
Additional personnel are needed to
support the analytical and reporting
tasks of NPIC. Positions are available
for individuals with varied academic
and work backgrounds, including com-
puter scientists, data base managers,
photographers, graphic artists, editors,
librarians, researchers, and model mak-
ers. All these professionals have many
opportunities within NPIC to exercise
innovative approaches to the handling
and analysis of large amounts of critical
information.
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The development of
supporting technology
is the foundation of
technical intelligence
collection.
Technology is constantly
changing, evolving, and
expanding. The activities of
DS&T professionals are prominent in
this process of change, where working
with concepts and technologies beyond
the state of the art is our norm.
DS&T activities in technology
development are diverse, ranging from
long-term research and development to
the creation of technical support tools
for case officers and agents in the field.
Long-term basic and
applied.research develops
tomorrow's technology.
Although every office in the Direc-
torate-of Science and Technology
pursues some research, the role of the
Office of Research and Development
(ORD) is unique. ORD is the "corpo-
rate" research arm of the Central
Intelligence Agency, serving all of the
CIA and answering the future tech-
nology needs of the entire Intelligence
Community.
The role of ORD is to bring today's
and tomorrow's technology to bear in
fulfilling the overall mission of the
CIA. ORD provides the methods,
techniques, and systems concepts and
designs to support the varied functions
of intelligence. We perform explora-
tory research, pushing beyond the
state of the art, and developing and
applying technologies and equipment
more advanced than anything com-
mercially available. Like all the work
within the DS&T, it is highly special-
ized, but the frontiers are open-ended.
Creativity, innovation, and imagina-
tion are prime requirements.
The work of ORD involves applied
research, development, testing, and
evaluation of a wide spectrum of tech-
nologies and methodologies. These
include the physical sciences, commu-
nications, sensors, semiconductor
applications, artificial intelligence,
image understanding, operations
research, process modeling, data base
management, high-speed computing,
and decision making and inference.
Any and all technologies with a poten-
tial intelligence function are pursued,
generally to the prototype or demon-
stration of feasibility level. This
involves close project management con-
tact with many of the largest private
industry contractors in the nation and
the opportunity to work with the latest
equipment and the most expert people
in government, academia, and business.
Because of the advanced level of work
in ORD, graduate degrees are strongly
preferred, asis professional experience.
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Systems development and
engineering take programs
from concept to product.
The Office of Development and
Engineering (OD&E) pursires re-
search and development with specific
and often immediate applications' to
meet the needs of national-level
policymakers. OD&E provides iotal
systems development for major sys-
tems ?from requirements definition
through design, engineering, and test-
ing and evaluation, to implementation,
operation, and even support logistics
and maintenance. These are generally
large state-of-the-art systems that are
not available commercially or in pri-
vate industry.
It is exciting and demanding work
with a very high level of technical chal-
lenge. OD&E requires a wide variety
of disciplines in advanced areas such
as: laser communications, digital
imagery processing, real time data col-
lection and processing, electro-optics,
advanced signal collection, artificial
intelligence, advanced antenna design,
mass data storage and retrieval, and
large systems modeling and simula-
tion. Our work includes totally new
concepts and systems as well as system
upgrades.
Because we work closely with many
of the most highly regarded private
contractors in the nation, scientific
and technical professionals who have
contract management skills are highly
valued.
Much is expected, but much is
offered in return, including early
responsibility and a chance to work on
very large and advanced systems from
conception to completion. Our engi-
neers have more independence than in
most private industry positions; they
operate with authority for not only
technical matters but scheduling and
production changes as well.
Our challenge is to anticipate and
answer technical requirements of the
national Intelligence Community. It's
an uncommon challenge for the pro-
fessional with uncommon ambition.
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Technology application
and modification support
immediate intelligence-
collection needs.
Despite the huge advances in tech-
nical collection systems, human intelli-
gence-gathering activities remain an
indispensable part of the intelligence
process. To increase the scope, effec-
tiveness and safety of such activities
throughtechnical means is the role of
the Office of Technical Services
(OTS).
Like other DS&T offices, the work
of OTS involves development and en-
gineering, both in our own advanced
facilities and through outside contrac-
tors. We oversee the design, develop-
ment, evaluation, and deployment of
specialized and unique equipment to
ensure it will withstand rigorous field
and operating conditions. Our scien-
tific and technical professionals
involved in, this effort are active in
areas of analog, digital, and satellite
communications, still photography,
video and image enhancement, chemi-
cal imagery, coding and decoding
devices, and various aspects of modern
computer technology.
Other OTS personnel apply a wide
variety of crafts and skills in support of
the collection process. Graphic artists,
locksmiths, wood technologists, and
experts in working with plastics,
leather, paper, and machine tools all
contribute to the OTS effort ? as do
other professionals with backgrounds
in languages, international relations,
military skills, document analysis, and
many other specialties.
OTS is a fast-paced, dynamic en-
vironment with particular appeal to
experienced engineers as well as to
recent graduates who want hands-on
experience in basic engineering and
other disciplines. OTS offers exten-
sive in-house training and encourages
its officers to seek outside educational
opportunities. Overseas assignments
are available for some OTS personnel.
OTS officers must be inventive, flexi-
ble, and able to think on their feet ?
technical specialists with an interest in
hands-on problem solving. The work
is demanding but never boring.
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Unique requirements call
for unique individuals.
The challenging work undertaken
by all the DS&T offices is unlike
what you are likely to find anywhere
else. It offers many opportunities for
individual initiative, as well as creative
teamwork, applied in an exciting
environment where your personal
responsibility and involvement are at
their maximum. It is work that is crit-
ical to our national security and that
provides great personal satisfaction.
Explore a career with the
Directorate of Science
and Technology.
Experienced professionals and col-
lege students who are interested in a
career with the DS&T are invited to
apply for employment.
To qualify for a position, you
must be a native or naturalized U.S.
citizen. If you are married, there is a
requirement that your spouse has, or
is acquiring, U.S. citizenship.
Because of the nature of our
responsibilities, we must conduct a
security investigation of each appli-
cant. For this reason, it is important
that you contact us as far ahead of
the time you want to start working as
possible.
To apply, write to the Director of
Personnel, Central Intelligence
Agency, Washington, D.C. 20505.
Enclose a resume of your education
and work experience and request pre-
liminary application forms.
Or, if you are in college, see your
Placement Officer (preferably six to
nine months before graduation) and
request an interview with the CIA
representative who visits your campus
or whose regional office may be situ-
ated nearby.
We encourage you to investigate the
personal and professional potential a
career with the DS&T may hold for
you. If you are the right person for the
unique challenges and opportunities
we offer, we are sure you can't find a
career like it anywhere else.
CIA is an Equal Opportunity
Employer.
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... where your career is America's strength.
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