Summary
Employs foreign language skills to collect, transcribe, translate, analyze, and report intelligence information.
Technical School
Days: 240
Locations: Goodfellow AFB, Texas, Presidio Of Monterey, California
Other Names
None
Bonus
4-Year Bonus: None
6-Year Bonus: $10,000
Badge
Intelligence Badge
Duty Identifier
ISR Duty Identifier
Clearance
Top Secret
Open Aptitude Category
None
AFSC Entry Requirements
Demographics
Males: 2424
Females: 1098
Total: 3522
Community College of the Air Force Degree
Intelligence Studies and Technology
CCAF Degree Plan
AFSC YouTube Videos
AFSC Reddit Posts
Duties and Responsibilities
Collection and Processing. Uses foreign language skills to search for, monitor, identify and process communications involving activities of interest. Identifies, tips, transcribes, translates, gists, and summarizes communications, incorporating and emphasizing essential elements of information to convey the meaning of an activity or a situation.
Develops techniques to collect, identify, and exploit target communications. Employs knowledge of global communication technologies and communication methods to locate and develop targets. Analysis and Production. Analyzes and reports intelligence information consumed by customers within the Air Force, Intelligence Community, DoD, US government, and foreign partners. Provides indications and warnings of adversarial intentions against US or allied interests.
Identifies regional and cultural factors associated with activities of interest. Applies critical thinking and analytic methods to gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from multiple sources using language processing/analysis tools. Develops and maintains working aids and analytic references to ensure applicability and currency.
Processes, exploits, and disseminates intelligence products with threat country or target analysis via written and verbal means to bring threat country or target specificity to commanders and leaders to impact tactical through national decision-making processes.
Specialty Qualifications
Knowledge is mandatory of:
- A designated foreign language.
- Global communication network technologies.
- global communication methods.
- Collection and processing equipment.
- Collection and analysis techniques.
- Procedures for processing and distributing intelligence data.
- Directives for handling, distributing, and safeguarding military information.
- Tactics, techniques, and procedures of adversary forces.
- Organization of the national intelligence structure and customers.
For entry into this specialty, prior foreign language education, training or experience is desirable, though not required.
Training-
For award of AFSC 1N331X:
- Documented foreign language proficiency of L2/R2 on the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) or Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) equivalent score is mandatory.
- Completion of a designated Cryptologic Language Analyst Initial Skills Course is mandatory.
The following experience is mandatory for award of the AFSC indicated:
- 1N351X. Qualification in and possession of respective AFSC 1N331X and experience performing cryptologic activities.
- 1N371X. Qualification in and possession of respective AFSC 1N351X and experience performing or supervising cryptologic activities.
The following are mandatory as indicated:
For entry into this specialty:
- No record or history of temporomandibular joint disorder or pain.
- Must obtain minimum score of 62 on the Predictive Success Model (PSM) or demonstrated proficiency in a DoD-trained acquisition language with an L2/R2 or better on the DLPT or OPI equivalent for which accession was approved by AF Career Field Manager (e.g. DLI by-pass).
- Prior Service, who previously held 1N3X1X AFS, and sister-service equivalent members must demonstrate at least L2/R2 on the DLPT within the past 12 months prior to accession.
- Must maintain eligibility to deploy and mobilize worldwide.
- Demonstrated proficiency in a DoD-trained acquisition language with an L2/R2 or better on the DLPT or OPI equivalent for which accession was approved by CFM (e.g. DLI by-pass).
- Ability to type at a rate of 25 words per minute.
- When required for a current or pending assignment, must successfully complete a Counter- Intelligence (CI) polygraph examination 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.
- Must 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: $125,350
Low Salary: $43,570
- Broadcast Technicians: $43,570
- General and Operations Managers: $103,650
- Intelligence Analysts: $86,940
- Interpreters and Translators: $52,330
- Political Scientists: $125,350
- Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists: $107,210
- Remote Sensing Technicians: $52,460
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Shreadouts
- 1N3X1F - Arabic
- 1N3X1G - Chinese
- 1N3X1H - Korean
- 1N3X1I - Russian
- 1N3X1J - Spanish
- 1N3X1K - Persian Farsi
- 1N3X1L - Hebrew
- 1N3X1M - Pashto
- 1N3X1N - Urdu
- 1N3X1Z - Divested Languages
Assignments
Career Field Education and Training Plan
Restricted