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17DX Warfighter Communications Operations Officer

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Overview

A Warfighter Communications Operations officer operates, secures, and monitors Air Force cyber systems. The officer works around the clock to maintain a safe cyberspace infrastructure.

Core Skills

  • Cyberspace infrastructure design and expansion
  • Cyberspace infrastructure security and configuration

Civilian Career Paths

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Information Security Engineers

Designing, configuring, and securing military cyberspace infrastructure transfers to protecting civilian networks and systems.

How to prepare: Build an isolated Linux security lab and document a vulnerability scan, remediation, and follow-up assessment of security controls.

What the civilian work involves
  • Coordinate monitoring of networks or systems for security breaches or intrusions.
  • Assess the quality of security controls, using performance indicators.
  • Scan networks, using vulnerability assessment tools to identify vulnerabilities.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Linux
  • Bash

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: WARFIGHTER COMMUNICATIONS (17DX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "WARFIGHTER COMMUNICATIONS"; normalized cached text lines 3789-3810; family-level section (17D4W, 17D3W, 17D1W)

    Supports: Cyberspace infrastructure design and expansion, Cyberspace infrastructure security and configuration, Information Security Engineers (O*NET 15-1299.05)

  2. O*NET: Information Security Engineers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Information Security Engineers (O*NET 15-1299.05)

Defense contractor jobs for 17DX

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