All Source Intelligence Analyst

“As a Space Force Intelligence Analyst, you'll analyze threats to America's space assets from adversary nations, producing intelligence that informs the most consequential national security decisions of the 21st century. You'll earn a TS/SCI clearance and develop expertise at the cutting edge of great power competition.”

You're an All Source Intelligence Analyst in the Space Force, which means you take information from every intelligence discipline and synthesize it into products that help commanders understand what China, Russia, and everyone else is doing to threaten American satellites. The information you work with is genuinely fascinating — counterspace weapons, orbital threats, electronic warfare against GPS, anti-satellite missile programs — this is great power competition at 22,000 miles altitude and it's the most consequential intelligence problem of the 21st century. The format you deliver it in, however, is PowerPoint. So much PowerPoint. An ocean of PowerPoint. Your magnum opus on Chinese ASAT capabilities will be judged not by its analytical rigor but by whether you used the approved template and the right shade of Space Force blue. The general's aide will send back your threat brief because the classification banner is 0.5pt too small. You will fix the banner. You will contemplate your life choices. The intel community is the same in every branch — the Space Force just added more space clip art and a logo that people keep comparing to Star Trek. Your analysis of threats that could literally end modern civilization as we know it will be summarized as 'supported space domain awareness.' The defense intel contractor world will poach you with a salary that makes your enlisted pay look like a GoFundMe.