Air Force AFSC · Intelligence

14NX Intelligence Officer

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Overview

An intelligence officer protects military information, collects data on external threats, and analyzes information for operational planning. The officer coordinates with other services and determines adversary capabilities and vulnerabilities to support Air Force missions.

Minimum clearance: Top Secret

Core Skills

  • Multi-discipline intelligence analysis and production
  • Intelligence collection planning and direction
  • ISR assessment, evaluation, and feedback
  • Cross-functional intelligence and ISR leadership

Civilian Career Paths

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DIA Analysis Officer

Military intelligence analysis, production, and assessment experience transfers directly to DIA's analysis of foreign military capabilities.

How to prepare: Practice writing an unclassified foreign-military-capabilities assessment to prepare for DIA's writing test and hiring-panel interview. DIA requires U.S. citizenship, a thorough background inquiry, personal interviews, any required medical examinations and counterintelligence-scope polygraph, satisfactory drug-screening urinalysis, and a granted security clearance before hiring can be finalized.

Notes & Sources

  • DIA hires primarily at entry level through invitation-only hiring events; mid- and senior-level vacancies are posted as mission needs dictate.
Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: INTELLIGENCE (14NX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "INTELLIGENCE"; normalized cached text lines 3055-3089; family-level section (14N4, 14N3, 14N1)

    Supports: Multi-discipline intelligence analysis and production, Intelligence collection planning and direction, ISR assessment, evaluation, and feedback, Cross-functional intelligence and ISR leadership, DIA Analysis Officer

  2. Defense Intelligence Agency: Analysis Career Field

    [2] Career Specifics, Military Capabilities, Applying to Be an Analyst; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

  3. Defense Intelligence Agency: Hiring Process

    [3] Opening hiring overview and Employment Criteria, Initial Employment; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

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