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150A Air Traffic And Air Space Management Technician

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Overview

An Air Traffic and Air Space Management Technician supervises and manages personnel in an air traffic control organization. Senior warrant officers develop, revise, and review instrument procedures and supervise training requirements, while master warrant officers coordinate special-use airspace, establish instructional standards, and serve as senior advisors.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Instrument en route and terminal procedure development
  • Special-use airspace coordination with other units
  • Air traffic control training standards development

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Air Traffic Controllers

Military ATC supervision and expertise in en route and terminal aircraft operations transfer directly to civilian traffic-control work.

How to prepare: Assemble existing certifications, facility ratings and records of post-certification live traffic separation to assess the appropriate FAA hiring route. FAA entry-level applicants must be under 31 and have one year of progressively responsible work experience, a bachelor's degree, or a qualifying education/work combination totaling one year; the supplied experienced-controller notice instead sets a maximum original-appointment age of 35 and requires 52 consecutive weeks of full-time active traffic separation after certification or a facility rating, within five years of application, at a qualifying FAA, DOD, National Guard or FAA-contract facility, with no educational substitute or credit for pre-certification military training.

What the civilian work involves
  • Issue landing and take-off authorizations or instructions.
  • Provide flight path changes or directions to emergency landing fields for pilots traveling in bad weather or in emergency situations.
  • Transfer control of departing flights to traffic control centers and accept control of arriving flights.

Airfield Operations Specialists

Terminal aircraft operations expertise and liaison with other units provide a foundation for coordinating safe airfield operations.

How to prepare: Compare your documented terminal-operations experience with airport inspection and safety duties, then seek focused instruction in airfield condition inspections and civilian regulatory compliance.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inspect airfield conditions to ensure compliance with federal regulatory requirements.
  • Implement airfield safety procedures to ensure a safe operating environment for personnel and aircraft operation.

Training & Development

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Getting Started

  • ASTM NCATT Foreign Object Elimination (FOE)

    Build foreign-object prevention knowledge, including housekeeping, tool accountability and material handling, for airfield safety work.

    Eligibility and preparation: The administrator states that the exam is open regardless of age, career field, training, education or experience; AET certification is not required for FOE.

    For: Airfield Operations Specialists

Notes & Sources

  • FAA controller selection also requires U.S. citizenship, medical and security screening, route-specific testing and training, and applicable certification. Entry-level selection includes ATSA and clear spoken English; Academy and facility training follow, and controllers undergo annual medical requalification.
  • The supplied experienced-controller notice requires willingness to work at any FAA facility, a pre-employment physical, drug testing and Secret clearance. Appointees complete the appropriate field-training phase, potentially including Academy courses; the notice is a resume repository, not a guaranteed opening.
  • Previously appointed FAA or DOD civilian 2152 applicants must document their original appointment before the maximum entry age under the supplied experienced-controller notice. These FAA appointment limits do not establish eligibility rules for every non-FAA controller job.
Evidence for this guidance (8 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 150A Air Traffic And Air Space Management Technician

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 150A (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank warrant_officer, authority codeType warrant_officer

    Supports: Instrument en route and terminal procedure development, Special-use airspace coordination with other units, Air traffic control training standards development, Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00), Airfield Operations Specialists (O*NET 53-2022.00)

  2. O*NET: Air Traffic Controllers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Air Traffic Controllers

    [3] How to Become an Air Traffic Controller; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  4. FAA: Air Traffic Controller Qualifications

    [4] Minimum qualifications and training requirements; official page updated 2025-02-27, checked 2026-09-24. Current entry-level threshold is one year, not the older three-year wording.

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  5. FAA 2026 experienced Air Traffic Control Specialist direct-hire notice

    [5] FAA-FAA-26-PUB NOT-96466: Duties, Conditions of employment, Qualifications, Education. Checked 2026-09-24; a resume repository, not a guarantee of an opening or appointment.

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  6. O*NET: Airfield Operations Specialists

    [6] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Airfield Operations Specialists (O*NET 53-2022.00), ASTM NCATT Foreign Object Elimination (FOE)

  7. COOL credential mapping: ASTM NCATT Foreign Object Elimination (FOE)

    [7] 150A cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: ASTM NCATT Foreign Object Elimination (FOE)

    [8]SpaceTEC Partners, Inc.: ASTM NCATT certification information, exam list, and FAQ · Background; Exams Offered (Aircraft Electronics Technician, AET Endorsements, Other ASTM NCATT exams); Frequently Asked Questions; retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: ASTM NCATT Foreign Object Elimination (FOE)

  8. ASTM NCATT FOE Elements of Basic Awareness Study Guide (PDF, copyright 2022 ASTM International NCATT)

    [9] Scope (sec. 1) and Significance and Use (sec. 3); retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: ASTM NCATT Foreign Object Elimination (FOE)

Defense contractor jobs for 150A

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