Army MOS · Intelligence
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A Strategic Intelligence Officer provides decision makers with strategic all source intelligence assessments and estimates at the theater level. The officer plans, coordinates, and manages collection asset tasking and oversees the analysis, integration, production, dissemination, and use of strategic intelligence.
Minimum clearance: TS/SCI
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Producing strategic all-source assessments and estimates for military decision makers transfers directly to DIA's defense intelligence analysis work.
How to prepare: Practice for DIA's writing test by drafting a public-source assessment of a foreign military capability. DIA hiring requires U.S. citizenship, a security clearance, and background screening, including drug testing and any required medical or counterintelligence-scope polygraph examinations.
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Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)
Document established all-source analysis experience relevant to a defense intelligence analysis career.
Eligibility and preparation: Available to DoD civilian and military personnel, including Coast Guard personnel, 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
[1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 35B (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer
Supports: Intelligence collection asset tasking and coordination, All-source information integration for theater estimates, Strategic intelligence production and dissemination planning, DIA Analysis Officer
[2] Career Specifics, Military Capabilities, Applying to Be an Analyst; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23
Supports: DIA Analysis Officer
[3] Opening hiring overview and Employment Criteria, Initial Employment; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23
Supports: DIA Analysis Officer
[4] 35B cached COOL credential feed
Supports: Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)
[5] Overview and Requirements
Supports: Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)
Historical codes with documented links to 35B. Each history page explains the change.
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