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1B4X1 Cyber Warfare Operations

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Overview

A Cyber Warfare Operator develops, sustains, and enhances cyberspace capabilities that defend national interests from attack. The operator manages cyber and information warfare operations at home stations and deployed locations while overseeing multiple operations units.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Minimum ASVAB: E 70

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: dafecd-atch4-2025-10-31 (source date 2025-10). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Skill levels: 1B411 helper · 1B431 apprentice · 1B451 journeyman · 1B471 craftsman

Core Skills

  • Coordination of cyber and conventional operations
  • Cyber capability development, testing, and implementation
  • Partner-system defense against adversarial access

Civilian Career Paths

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Information Security Engineers

Offensive and defensive cyberspace operations, adversarial-access mitigation, and capability testing transfer to civilian security testing and intrusion monitoring.

How to prepare: Build an isolated test network and document a vulnerability assessment, an authorized penetration test, and the resulting security-control improvements.

What the civilian work involves
  • Identify security system weaknesses, using penetration tests.
  • Coordinate monitoring of networks or systems for security breaches or intrusions.
  • Assess the quality of security controls, using performance indicators.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Linux
  • Bash
  • Microsoft PowerShell

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. DAFECD, 30 Apr 26: CYBER WARFARE OPERATIONS (1B4X1)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "CYBER WARFARE OPERATIONS"; normalized cached text lines 1770-1798; explicit AFSC match for 1B4X1

    Supports: Coordination of cyber and conventional operations, Cyber capability development, testing, and implementation, Partner-system defense against adversarial access, 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 1B4X1

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