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Duties and Responsibilities

• Supports analytical aspects of various Air Force and Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations by collating, analyzing, evaluating, and disseminating signals intelligence information.
  
• Analyzes, studies, researches, fuses, and correlates intelligence for strategic, operational, and tactical customers.
  
• Enables all-source intelligence, situation estimates, order- of-battle studies, and other intelligence reports and studies. Advises commanders on force protection and intelligence information for US and allied forces.
  

• Analyzes, assesses, and prioritizes information obtained from intelligence collection efforts and synthesizes information to provide serialized intelligence reports to authorized recipients.
  
• Identifies, correlates, and fuses technical, geographical, and operational intelligence information.
  
• Authors time-sensitive intelligence reports in accordance with established guidelines to support decisions makers.
  
• Identifies and disseminates real-time threat warning information in support of DoD objectives.
  

• Conducts in-depth analysis of communications characteristics and target tactics, techniques, and procedures.
  
• Creates and maintains technical and operational databases using diverse computer hardware and software applications.
  
• Performs detailed analysis on target network communications for additional exploitation.
  
• Develops and employs techniques to collect, identify, and exploit target networks and operating characteristics.
  

• Provides detailed support to contingency and deliberate planning processes.
  
• Operates mission- essential communications mediums to ensure threat warning capability.
  
• Utilizes all-source intelligence information to produce and present topical high-interest technical and operational intelligence briefings to all levels of command.
  
• Prepares target communication assessments, adversary order of battle studies, situation reports, and other intelligence reports as required.
  
• Produces, analyzes, studies, researches, fuses, and correlates intelligence for strategic, operational, and tactical customers.
  
• Provides target geopolitical and operational intelligence to national agencies and military command authorities.
  
• Provides analysis of Information Operations activities and reach-back cryptologic support to Air and Space Operations Centers and supported commanders.
  
• Executes near real-time intelligence support to sensitive reconnaissance missions.
  
• Provides multi-intelligence analysis of adversary tactics in support of Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment supporting Air Force training and tactics development.
  

• Instructs military personnel on cryptologic collection, analysis, reporting requirements and procedures.
  
• Collates intelligence and operations materials to impart proper tradecraft supporting air, space, and cyberspace signals intelligence analysis.
  
• Drives development of tradecraft to broadly enable DoD missions.
  
• Integrates information assurance, cyber, cryptologic authorities, and data to evolve development of tradecraft and generate measurable mission outcomes.
• Processes, exploits, and disseminates intelligence products and conducts analysis concerning threat countries or targets of interest via written and/or verbal means. These products provide specificity and knowledge to commanders and national leaders to impact tactical through strategic level decision making processes.

Specialty Qualifications

Must gain and maintain knowledge of: 

• Global communications procedures; analytical techniques.
• Organization of the national intelligence structure.
• Intelligence organizations and systems.
• Information Operations.
• Organization of designated military forces.
• Geography.
• Collection and reporting, systems, principles, methods, and procedures
• Effective writing principles.
• Oral and written intelligence information presentation.
• Directives for handling, disseminating, and safeguarding classified information.

• 1N432. For award, completion of the Analysis and Production Apprentice courses.
• For US Space Force, completion of the Analysis and Production Apprentice courses and Space Warfighter Intelligence Formal Training Unit is mandatory until replaced by new courses as determined by US Space Force.

• 1N452. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1N432 and experience performing cryptologic activities.
• 1N472. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1N452 and experience performing or supervising cryptologic activities.

• No speech disorders or noticeable communications deficiencies as defined by AFI 48-123, Medical Examinations and Standards.

• When required for a current or pending assignment, must successfully complete and pass a Counter-Intelligence (CI) polygraph test and meet all customer access eligibility requirements. Airmen unable to access mission, systems and/or facilities after 12 months of investigation/security screening will be considered for retraining or separation.
• Maintain local network access IAW AFI 17-130, Cybersecurity Program Management and AFMAN 17-1301, Computer Security.
• Specialty requires routine access to Tier 5 (T5) information, systems, or similar classified environment.
• Completion and favorable adjudication of a current T5 Investigation IAW DoDM 5200.02, AFMAN 16-1405, Air Force Personnel Security Program, is mandatory.

Civilian Career Options

High Salary: $164,070

Low Salary: $71,890

• Cartographers and Photogrammetrists: $71,890
• Computer and Information Systems Managers: $164,070
• Computer Systems Analysts: $102,240
• Database Administrators: $99,890
• Detectives and Criminal Investigators: $86,280
• Geographers: $88,900
• Information Security Analysts: $112,000
• Intelligence Analysts: $86,280
• Management Analysts: $95,290
• Network and Computer Systems Administrators: $90,520

***This information was retrieved from Veterans Job Matcher at CareerOneStop (www.careeronestop.org), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.

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