Despite growing emphasis in particular areas of national security intelligence such as
cyber intelligence, it is likely that overall hiring of entry level intelligence analysts
within the US Intelligence Community (IC) will decrease slightly from recent levels
over the next 12 months due to increased pressure to reduce the US budget. It is likely
that significant increases in cyber intelligence analyst positions and geospatial analyst
positions will somewhat offset the attrition of analyst positions in other areas, such as
political or military intelligence, needed to meet budget cuts. In addition, it is likely that
at least some of the projected losses due to retirement will be partially offset by entrylevel hiring. It is unlikely, however, that overall entry-level analyst hiring will increase
in any of the respective agencies of the US IC or in the contractors that support the US
IC.
