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30A Information Operations Officer

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Overview

An Information Operations Officer coordinates, supervises, and participates in current all source intelligence activities focused on foreign intentions, geography, and military capabilities. The officer develops collection and production requirements, targets strategic collection resources, and evaluates, analyzes, and produces intelligence products.

Core Skills

  • Foreign military intent and capability analysis
  • Intelligence collection and production requirements development
  • Strategic intelligence collection resource targeting
  • All-source intelligence evaluation and product development

Civilian Career Paths

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DIA Analysis Officer

Experience analyzing foreign military intentions and ground-force capabilities and producing all-source intelligence directly overlaps DIA's military capabilities analysis specialty.

How to prepare: Practice for DIA's writing test by drafting an assessment of a foreign military capability using public sources and clearly distinguishing evidence from judgments. DIA requires U.S. citizenship and security clearance approval, with background screening, interviews, drug testing, and any required medical examination or counterintelligence-scope polygraph.

Training & Development

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Career Growth

  • Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)

    Document validated DoD all-source analysis experience relevant to the DIA analysis path.

    Eligibility and preparation: Available to DoD civilian and military personnel, including the Coast Guard, performing all-source analysis functions; requires TS/SCI clearance, access to AGILE on JWICS, and at least two years of validated DoD all-source analysis experience performing, leading, or enabling analysis within the last five years.

    For: DIA Analysis Officer

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 30A Information Operations Officer

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 30A (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Foreign military intent and capability analysis, Intelligence collection and production requirements development, Strategic intelligence collection resource targeting, All-source intelligence evaluation and product development, 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

  4. COOL credential mapping: Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)

    [4] 30A cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)

  5. DoD All Source Analysis certification requirements

    [5] Overview and Requirements

    Supports: Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)

Defense contractor jobs for 30A

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