INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Applicants who have the 1 year of appropriate specialized experience, as indicated in the table, are not required by this standard to have general experience, education above the high school level, or any additional specialized experience to meet the minimum qualification requirements.

As a INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, GS-0132-11, you will perform the following duties: (1) Serves as a ISR unit crewmember in the SIGINT exploitation section, responsible for ELINT operations and production affecting time critical targeting (TCT), direct threat warning, battle damage assessment, combat identification, combat search and rescue, multi-INT correlation, threat analysis, mapping, intelligence preparation of the battlespace, situation monitoring, and mission reporting.

Provides ELINT correlation of data from multiple ISR platforms and intelligence products. Requests dynamic sensor retasking to exploit time critical information not originally entered into the collection plan. Assesses the data and provides cross-cueing sensor/tip-offs to other platforms and exploitation sections improving multi-INT correlation.

Updates Air Force ISR unit components and command, control, communications, computers (C4) and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) nodes on ELINT findings. (2) Conducts ELINT activities and operations from data derived from manned, unmanned, and other operational assets in support of National Agencies, Joint Commands, Air Force MAJCOMs, and AOCs contingencies and exercises. Participates in pre-mission conferences to outline mission objectives, potential threats, and possible outcomes.

Performs operator and analyst duties to exploit ELINT, Foreign Instrumentation Signals Intelligence (FISINT) and other related activities. Employs signals exploitation activities to support electronic combat (EC) operations. Operates electronic search and related equipment. Searches and exploits signal activity throughout the radio frequency spectrum. Operates directional, electromagnetic receiving, and recording systems to monitor, acquire, collect, and exploit electro-magnetic transmissions.

Analyzes raw electronic transmission characteristics. Determines line of bearing or origin point, external characteristics, and parameters of electromagnetic transmissions. Extracts raw data from electromagnetic signals, analyses and provides finished report results to national agencies, joint commands, Air Force MAJCOMs, AOCs, US and coalition airborne assets in real world operations and exercises.

Evaluates electromagnetic transmission exploitation to ensure characteristics are accurately determined and reported. (3) Prepares post-mission reports from analysis of communications patterns, trends, and characteristics for general intelligence and operational community consumption. Prepares and evaluates finished reports relative to ELINT, FISINT, and EC related operations. Briefs analysis findings and estimates to superiors and mission planners.

Publishes finished reports and documents for use by decision-makers in the squadron, AOC, Air Force MAJCOMs, Joint Commands, and the National Agencies. Researches, analyzes and plans ELINT exploitation activities in preparation for operational missions. Utilizes allotted resources for ELINT, FISINT, and EC related operations and analysis activities.

Communicates with other intelligence departments and agencies to share data and techniques, findings, and planning for future operations. (4) Works with other crew members to ensure the ELINT exploitation section maintains a capability to provide timely and accurate operational intelligence support and fully trained intelligence personnel during peacetime and contingency operations.

Coordinates with the gaining command on operational intelligence elements needed to carry out coordination and liaison with counterparts and colleagues in other DoD major command intelligence organizations such as Air Combat Command (ACC), National Guard Bureau (NGB), United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE), Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) and other Federal agencies such as Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National Security Agency (NSA), U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM), Air Intelligence Agency (AIA), U.S.

Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Incumbent represents the organization at interagency conferences and meetings that deal with specialty functions and internal training requirements at the unit level. (5) Performs other duties as assigned. *The above duty description does not contain all details of the official position description.

A copy of the entire position description can be found on FASCLASS by searching the position description PD#: (D1655P01). https://acpol2.army.mil/fasclass/search_fs/search_fasclass.asp