Army MOS · IT & Cyber

17D Cyber Capabilities Development Officer

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Overview

A Cyber Capabilities Development Officer leads, plans, integrates, and executes capabilities development for cyberspace operations and electronic warfare across Army echelons. The officer designs, develops, and delivers software and hardware for cyberspace, Department of Defense Information Network, and electronic warfare missions, including protecting friendly systems and identifying adversary electromagnetic vulnerabilities.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

Software and hardware development for electronic warfare
Capability development for offensive and defensive cyber missions
Knowledge of adversary cyberspace and electromagnetic capabilities

Civilian Career Paths

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Software Developers

17D officers design, develop, and deliver software and hardware solutions for cyber and electronic warfare missions while serving on developer teams.

How to prepare: Build a self-contained software portfolio project using public or synthetic data, with automated tests and a short explanation of requirements, interfaces, and design tradeoffs.

What the civilian work involves

Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
Develop or direct software system testing or validation procedures, programming, or documentation.
Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.

Civilian tools and software (examples)

C
C++
Docker

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)

Army COOL MOC feed: 17D Cyber Capabilities Development Officer
[1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 17D (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer
Supports: Software and hardware development for electronic warfare, Capability development for offensive and defensive cyber missions, Knowledge of adversary cyberspace and electromagnetic capabilities, Software Developers (O*NET 15-1252.00)
O*NET: Software Developers
[2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data
Supports: Software Developers (O*NET 15-1252.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 17D

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