Males: 439

Females: 56

Total: 495

Performs and assists in mission planning. Provides mission planning inputs to maximize mission success. Prepares and distributes operational intelligence information to crew.
Coordinates mission profile requirements and priorities. Prepares mission data files. Review status of mission aircraft, targets, and air tasking order information. Monitors employment of other assigned air assets and operations.

Processes, exploits, analyzes, and disseminates intelligence information in an airborne environment. Operates airborne intelligence systems and executes mission within standard requirements. Conducts environmental surveys of radio frequency spectrum with sophisticated computerized radio receiver suites. Tunes and records data as needed.

Annotates electromagnetic events, measures parameters, compares sensor data results with in-flight databases of previously catalogued signals to determine likely emitter source, and determines location of signal. Analyzes structure and content of machine-based communications. Digitally archives key events for follow-on processing.

Extracts essential elements of information for reportable significance. Disseminates threat warning information to affected entities via established channels.

Maintains logs to document mission results. Prepares in-flight and post-mission reports. Ensures accuracy, completeness, format, and compliance with current directives and mission system performance engineering preventive maintenance programs, and aircrew procedures.

Provides threat warning and actionable intelligence to customers as required. Achieves and maintains situational awareness of impending/ongoing air, ground, and maritime combat operations.

Employs intelligence information systems to satisfy air, ground, and maritime force intelligence and threat warning requirements. Provides threat warning information to aircrews and other agencies.

Coordinates with airborne, ground, and maritime agencies to distribute and relay operational threat and identification data. Transmits identification and other mission information.

Knowledgeable of U.S. and allied operations such as:

• Interception.
• Interdiction.
• Close Air Support (CAS).
• Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR).
• Combat Air Patrol (CAP).
• Reconnaissance.
• Offensive or Defensive Counter Air (OCA/DCA).
• Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD).
• Special Operations Forces (SOF).

Coordinates and exchanges identification information. Coordinates with aerospace rescue and recovery services and operations. Maintains liaison with reporting agencies required for mission execution.

Perform aircrew duties. Demonstrates and maintains proficiency in emergency equipment use and procedures, and egress. Performs pre- flight, through-flight, and post-flight inspections.

Operates aircraft systems and equipment, such as electrical, interphone, door, and exits. Performs preventive maintenance on mission equipment.

Ensures equipment and resources are externally clean, functional, and free from safety hazard. Reports malfunctions and observations. Supervises loading and off-loading of classified material and personal aircrew gear. Applies restraint devices, such as cargo straps and nets, to prevent shifting during flight. Ensures access to escape exits.

Performs ground intelligence duties. Reviews signals information from airborne missions and correlates additional intelligence data to further refine analytic assessments.

Works with other analysts to evaluate information and provide refined analysis as required. Injects new information back into mission planning and preparations processes.

Performs office duties as assigned. Duties can include functions such as operations, analysis, mission planning, tactics, training, standardization and evaluations, scheduling, deployment operations, or other administrative, aviation or ISR management functions.

Knowledge- 

Mandatory Knowledge of: 

• ISR operations and related Cryptologic support to national agencies, service Cryptologic elements and theater elements.
• Joint service relationships and operations concepts
• Organization of national intelligence structure, tasking strategies.
• Radio propagation and modulation theory.
• Radio communications networks, operations, and techniques.
• Collection and processing procedures.
• Signals and traffic analysis techniques.
• Tasking strategies.
• Reporting concepts, formats and procedures.
• Mission planning and management.
• Basic computer and electronic equipment operations.
• Methods for handling, distributing and safeguarding information and aircraft emergency equipment and procedures.

Education-
For entry into specialty completion of high school or general educational development equivalency is mandatory.
Also, completion of courses in advanced mathematics, computers, electronics, and typing is desirable.

Training-
For award of AFSC 1A832:

• Completion of the Aircrew Fundamentals Course.
• Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Operator Fundamentals Course.
• The Apprentice Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Operator Course and the designated survival schools are mandatory.

Experience-
The following experience is mandatory for award of the AFSC indicated:

• Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1A832. Completion of IQT with a valid Form 8. Completion of I-CDP and twelve months experience performing or supervising airborne Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance functions.
• 1A872. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1A852. Valid Form 8. Completion of I-CDP and twelve months experience performing or supervising airborne Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance functions.

Other-
The following are mandatory as indicated:

For entry into this specialty:

• No record or history of temporomandibular joint pain or disorder.

For entry, award, and retention of these AFSCs:

• Physical qualification for aircrew duty according to DAFMAN 48-123, Medical Examinations and Standards, Class III medical standards and height requirement.
• Qualification for aviation service according to AFI 11-402, Aviation and Parachutist Service, Aeronautical Ratings and Aviation Badges.
• Specialty requires routine access to Tier 5 (T5) information, systems, or similar classified environments.
• Completion of a current T5 Investigation IAW DoDM 5200.02, AFMAN 16-1405, Air Force Personnel Security Program.

NOTE: Award of the entry level without a completed T5 Investigation is authorized provided an interim Top Secret security clearance has been granted according to DoDM 5200.02, AFMAN 16 -1405.

• Must successfully complete a polygraph examination to meet customer mission access eligibility requirements.

NOTE: Airmen unable to maintain T5 Investigation, unable to complete polygraph or gain mission access to systems and or facilities will be retrained or separated. Begin the process no later than day 365 of lack of access.

High Salary: $107,210

Low Salary: $43,570