All Source Analyst (USSF)

What does the All Source Analyst (USSF) career field do?

Manages, supervises, and performs intelligence activities/functions including discovering, developing, evaluating, and providing intelligence information. Intelligence is one of the spacepower disciplines in which Guardians specialize, providing data and information essential to operations in the space domain, in areas of responsibility in every other domain, and in the information and electromagnetic spectrum environments. The Space Force organizes, trains, and equips Guardians to conduct operations, including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), as part of the joint force to meet national objectives (strategic and military) through the application of military spacepower. Related DoD Occupational Subgroup: 124300.

Duties and responsibilities

• Enables and feeds all aspects of Space Force missions in support of acquisitions, test and evaluation, and operations by discovering, collating, analyzing, evaluating, and disseminating intelligence information. Produces all-source intelligence using multiple disciplines, including Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), Cyber, and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and Targeting.
• Produces intelligence materials in accordance with intelligence tradecraft standards. Prepares, maintains, and presents intelligence displays, reports, and briefings. Discovers, compiles, evaluates, researches, analyzes, and disseminates intelligence information. Establishes intelligence collection requirements. Identifies and establishes unit level program requirements for intelligence reference materials, maintains intelligence reference files and automated intelligence databases. Uses intelligence automated data systems to store, retrieve, display, and report intelligence information.
• Coordinates with the interagency, joint force, intelligence enterprise, and space force elements to provide accurate, timely, and relevant intelligence support to warfighters in support of Combatant Command or Space Force objectives. Timely and accurate intelligence is essential in achieving decision advantage for commanders at every echelon.
• Experienced All-Source Analysts can develop a deep expertise in multiple intelligence disciplines, including Cyber intelligence, Imagery Intelligence Analyst, Target Analysis, Orbital Warfare Intelligence Support, and Open Source Intelligence Analysis. All Source Analysts will process, exploit, and disseminate 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

Knowledge. Knowledge is mandatory of: intelligence organizations and systems, collection and reporting systems, procedures, and methods, intelligence information sources, techniques of identifying, collating, evaluating, and analyzing information, geographical and cultural aspects of foreign countries, current military capabilities and employment tactics of potential enemy offensive and defensive weapon systems, special operations forces tactics, techniques and procedures, and associated equipment, procedures for acquiring, updating, and maintaining intelligence documents, maps, and charts, maps and charts use techniques, graphic, oral, and written intelligence presentation, support to targeting, capabilities and application of respective computer systems, security classification marking and control, US sensor systems, regional physical characteristics relative to radar significance, basic electromagnetic theory, and digital terrain and feature databases.

• For Guardians selected to attend 5I1X1 initial skills training. The following knowledge is mandatory: basic imagery interpretation principles, techniques, and procedures for imagery exploitation, Space Force, DoD, and collection and reporting systems, techniques of identifying, collating, evaluating, and analyzing information, current military capabilities and employment tactics of potential enemy offensive and defensive weapon systems, basic electromagnetic theory, targeting methods and techniques, use of national geospatial data, information and intelligence data systems and the maps, charts, grid systems. Graphic, oral, and written intelligence presentation. Fundamental mensuration techniques, requirements for, and sources and uses of target and geospatial intelligence data, production of target materials, and security controls, classifications, markings, and handling restrictions.
• For Guardians selected to attend 5I8X1 initial skills training. The following knowledge is mandatory: intelligence organizations and systems, collection and reporting systems, procedures, and methods, intelligence information sources, techniques of identifying, collating, evaluating, and analyzing information, geographical and cultural aspects of foreign countries, current military capabilities and employment tactics of potential enemy offensive and defensive weapon systems, special operations forces tactics, techniques and procedures, and associated equipment, procedures for acquiring, updating, and maintaining intelligence documents, maps, and charts, maps and charts use techniques, graphic, oral, and written intelligence presentation, support to targeting, capabilities and application of respective computer systems, security classification marking and control, US sensor systems, regional physical characteristics relative to radar significance, basic electromagnetic theory, and digital terrain and feature databases

Education. For entry into this specialty, completion of high school or General Education Development equivalency, with courses in speech, journalism, critical thinking, geography, modern world history, statistics, algebra, and geometry are desirable.

Training. For award of specialty code 5I031, completion of the All Source Intelligence Apprentice Course or Career Field Manager approval is mandatory. The following training is mandatory for award of award of the specialty indicated:

• For award of 5I0X1 with an 1S8 SEI, Guardian must complete the multi-course Targeting Analyst pipeline consisting of: the Targeting Analyst Course, the Target Coordinate Mensuration (TCM) Course, and the specialty-awarding Collateral Damage Estimation (CDE) Course or approval from the Career Field Manager.
• For award of 5I0X1 with an 060 SEI, completion of a basic Geospatial Intelligence Apprentice and applicable suffix course or Career Field Manager approval is mandatory.

Special Experience Identifiers (SEIs).

• SEIs are available to Guardians who demonstrate the required proficiency in the associated portion of the 5I0 Specialty Training Standard (STS), or who have completed the required courses as outlined in the DAFECD. The SEIs follow a competency-based model with each specialty possessing a basic, intermediate, advanced, and expert-level.

Experience. The following experience is mandatory for award of specialty code indicated:

• 5I051. Qualification in and possession of specialty code 5I031.
• 5I071. Qualification in and possession of specialty code 5I051.
• 5I051. Qualification in and possession of specialty code 5I131.
• 5I071. Qualification in and possession of specialty code 5I151. Also, experience training or supervising exploitation team activities in support of geospatial intelligence production.
• 5I071. Qualification in and possession of 5I851. Also, experience training or supervising exploitation team activities in support of geospatial intelligence production.
• Other. The following are mandatory as indicated:
• For entry into this specialty:
• No speech disorders or noticeable communications deficiencies as defined by AFI 48-123, Medical Examinations and Standards.
• See attachment 4 for additional entry requirements.
• For award and retention of Specialty Code 5I0X1:
• When required for a current or future assignment, must successfully complete a polygraph test and meet all customer access eligibility requirements.
• Must maintain local network access IAW AFI 17-130, Cybersecurity Program Management Systems and AFMAN 17-1301, Computer Security.
• Normal color vision as defined by correctly identifying at least 10 of 14 Pseudo-isochromatic Plates (PIP I) of one of the following tests: Ishihara, Dvorine, or the original version of the AO tests.
• When required for a current or future assignment, must successfully complete a polygraph test.
• Specialty requires routine access to Tier 5 (T5) information, systems or similar classified environment.
• For award and retention of Specialty Codes 5I031, 5I051, and 5I071:
• Completion of a current T5 Investigation IAW DoDM 5200.02, AFMAN 16-1405, Air Force Personnel Security Program, is mandatory. NOTE: 5I0X1 Guardians shall attend either 5I0X1, 5I1X1, or 5I8X1 initial qualification training based on the current Program Guidance Letter. NOTE: 510X1 Guardian’s selected for the 5I8X1 Targeting Analyst multi-course pipeline. The Guardian course pipeline will consist of the Targeting Analyst Course, the Target Coordinate Mensuration (TCM) Course, and the specialty-awarding Collateral Damage Estimation (CDE) Course must be completed, or Career Field Manager approval must be attained before awarding of the 1S8 SEI. NOTE: Initial attendance in 5I0X1 specialty code awarding course without a completed T5 investigation is authorized provided interim T5 eligibility has been granted IAW Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 704. Guardians who cannot obtain at least an interim T5 for programmed class-start are not eligible for entry into the specialty code.

Civilian career paths

Comparable civilian careers for this field pay roughly $46,200–$151,150 per year (median salaries; varies by role and location):

• Business Continuity Planners: $77,420
• Cartographers and Photogrammetrists: $68,380
• Computer and Information Systems Managers: $151,150
• Computer Systems Analysts: $93,730
• Database Administrators: $98,860
• Detectives and Criminal Investigators: $86,940
• Financial Risk Specialists: $83,660
• Geographers: $85,430
• Intelligence Analysts: $86,940
• Management Analysts: $87,660
• Operations Research Analysts: $86,200
• Political Scientists: $125,350
• Sociologists: $86,110
• Surveying and Mapping Technicians: $46,200
• Technical Writers: $74,650