Intelligence Officer
ABOUT
If you’re an Intelligence Officer, you serve at the forefront of national security. Analyze top-secret information, interpret spy reports and direct the analysis of top-secret satellite imagery. While others may see nothing, you’ll be able to use keen analytical abilities to perceive patterns. And as an IO, you’ll be the first to ascertain the implications of the latest intelligence. Do you have the brains and bravery for the job?
RESPONSIBILITIES
As an Intelligence Officer, you will take on a wide variety of assignments, each one essential in its related mission or objective. This role may include:
• Leading the planning, development, testing and deployment of information systems crucial to the intelligence process
• Monitoring and analyzing maritime activities that pose a threat to national security, such as drug smuggling, illegal immigration, arms transfers, environmental mishaps and violations of UN sanctions
• Delivering real-time operational intelligence assessment to high-level decision makers
• Planning intelligence operations including threat analysis for pre-strike missions and direct action missions
• Managing intelligence systems
• Enabling the collection of human intelligence
• Overseeing the work of Enlisted Sailors (no degree required) who help convert information into intelligence
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Depending on interests, background and performance, Intelligence Officers have opportunities to
serve worldwide aboard ships, on bases and installations or Joint Assignments with other military branches and Department of Defense Agencies.
TRAINING
Upon completion of Officer Candidate School, Intelligence Officers attend a five-month basic course of instruction at the Center for Information Dominance in Dam Neck, VA, where they receive training in: electronic, anti-submarine, anti-surface, anti-air, amphibious and strike warfare; counterintelligence; strategic intelligence; air defense analysis and combat mission planning.
From there, Intel Officers embark on a 30-month operational fleet tour. This is typically an assignment with an aviation squadron, with an air wing staff or onboard an aircraft carrier or amphibious command ship.
EDUCATION BENEFITS
• Post-9/11 GI Bill
• Navy Tuition Assistance Program
• Completing Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) at one of the various service colleges
• Using Tuition Assistance to attend online or in-person graduate programs during shore assignments.
• Navy College Program
• VOLED Assistance Center
• VOLED Region Advisors
• The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)
• Navy War College (NWC)
• USAF Air University Air Command and Staff College
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
• U.S. citizen between the ages of 19 and 42.
• Graduate or current student pursuing a B.A., B.S. or M.S. (preferably major in international relations, political science, government, engineering, physical science, natural science, computer science or other academic fields related to intelligence.
• 3.0 GPA or higher