Intelligence operations and tradecraft training for U.S. defense and federal agencies
DarkStar Intelligence is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business delivering intelligence operations, targeting support, and tradecraft training to DoD, Army, Air Force, NSA, and SOCOM. The hiring profile—dominated by ops (21), security (17), and training (9) roles, with 46 senior staff—reflects a delivery-heavy, client-facing organization managing complex government contracts rather than a product-driven engineering shop. Active projects span cryptologic training, nation-state threat analysis, and acquisition oversight, while pain points center on compliance alignment, database integrity, and contract risk management.
Notable leadership hires: Task Lead
DarkStar Intelligence specializes in all-source analysis, collection management, OSINT exploitation, and intelligence tradecraft for the U.S. government and private sector. Founded in 2015 and based in Alexandria, Virginia, the company operates as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business with ISO 9001, ISO 20000, and ISO 27001 certifications. Core service areas include intelligence operations support, targeting, HUMINT collection training, cybersecurity engineering, and computer-based distance learning. The organization maintains a 51–200-person team heavily weighted toward operations and security staff, indicating mature contract delivery and compliance-heavy execution. Tech infrastructure leans on AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling alongside traditional enterprise software (SAP, Office, Blackboard).
DarkStar runs SAP for ERP, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins), and programming languages including Python, C, C++, Rust, and Go. Monitoring and configuration management include Prometheus, Terraform, and Ansible.
Active projects include cryptologic training program development, nation-state threat center analysis, OSINT targeting, acquisition oversight database support, and blended learning experience creation for government clients.
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