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180A Special Forces Warrant Officer

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Overview

A Special Forces Warrant Officer leads combat operations and applies expertise in unconventional warfare and operations and intelligence fusion to planning and execution. This officer advises commanders on special operations, serves in detachment command and staff operations positions, and may lead task organized special operations forces elements.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Operations and intelligence fusion for mission planning
  • Special operations planning across command levels

Civilian Career Paths

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DIA Analysis Officer

Experience integrating intelligence into special operations planning and advising commanders provides a foundation for DIA's foreign military capabilities analysis specialty.

How to prepare: Prepare an unclassified assessment of a foreign military capability as practice for DIA's writing test and panel interview. DIA requires U.S. citizenship, a granted security clearance, background screening, a drug test, and any required medical examinations or counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.

Notes & Sources

  • DIA conducts most hiring at entry level through invitation-only events; mid- and senior-level vacancies are posted as mission needs dictate.
Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 180A Special Forces Warrant Officer

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 180A (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank warrant_officer, authority codeType warrant_officer

    Supports: Operations and intelligence fusion for mission planning, Special operations planning across command levels, DIA Analysis Officer

  2. Defense Intelligence Agency: Analysis Career Field

    [2] Career Specifics, Military Capabilities, Applying to Be an Analyst; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

  3. Defense Intelligence Agency: Hiring Process

    [3] Opening hiring overview and Employment Criteria, Initial Employment; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

Defense contractor jobs for 180A

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