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9S100 Scientific Applications Specialist

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Overview

A Scientific Applications Specialist conducts scientific research and evaluates specialized data to address intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance problems. The specialist applies physics, chemistry, mathematics, data analytics, engineering, and mechanics while developing unique assets and maintaining specialized scientific equipment.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Minimum ASVAB: M 80 and E 88

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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Core Skills

  • Applied science for ISR problem solving
  • Specialized scientific and technical data analysis
  • Scientific equipment maintenance for ISR operations
  • Scientific and technical research and development

Civilian Career Paths

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Data Scientists

Specialized data analysis, foundational mathematics, and scientific research supporting ISR provide a transferable basis for civilian data processing and analysis.

How to prepare: Build a public-data portfolio project that cleans raw observations and compares predictive models using statistical performance metrics to demonstrate skills beyond the foundational analysis described in the military summary.

What the civilian work involves
  • Analyze, manipulate, or process large sets of data using statistical software.
  • Clean and manipulate raw data using statistical software.
  • Compare models using statistical performance metrics, such as loss functions or proportion of explained variance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Git
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

  • The verified 9S100 summary does not establish the depth of statistical training or predictive-modeling experience needed to assess readiness for data-science work.
Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. DAFECD, 30 Apr 26: 9S100, Scientific Applications Specialist

    [1] Section 34 heading at normalized cached text line 18009; Specialty Summary 34.3 at 18010; duties 34.4 (Scientific Applications Specialist 9S100 and ISR Data Specialist 9S100D); qualifications 34.5 ("Qualifications for Award and Retention of RI 9S100")

    Supports: Applied science for ISR problem solving, Specialized scientific and technical data analysis, Scientific equipment maintenance for ISR operations, Scientific and technical research and development, Data Scientists (O*NET 15-2051.00)

  2. O*NET: Data Scientists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Data Scientists (O*NET 15-2051.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 9S100

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