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35P Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Voice Interceptor

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Overview

Signals intelligence voice interceptors detect, acquire, geolocate, identify, and exploit foreign communications at all echelons using signals intelligence systems. They copy, translate, transcribe, gist, and summarize transmissions while supporting information collection synchronization and conducting basic intelligence oversight.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Minimum ASVAB: ST 101

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-18

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: smartbook-611-21-ch10c-fy2025 (source date 2025-12). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Foreign communications transcription, translation, and summarization
  • Communications signal acquisition and geolocation
  • Intelligence collection synchronization for mission requirements
  • Basic intelligence oversight for SIGINT operations

Civilian Career Paths

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Interpreters and Translators

Translating, transcribing, and summarizing foreign communications transfers directly to listening-based translation work.

How to prepare: Build a translation sample from a publicly available recording in your working language, including a transcript and terminology glossary, and have it reviewed for accuracy.

What the civilian work involves
  • Listen to speakers' statements to determine meanings and to prepare translations, using electronic listening systems as necessary.
  • Compile terminology and information to be used in translations, including technical terms such as those for legal or medical material.
  • Refer to reference materials, such as dictionaries, lexicons, encyclopedias, and computerized terminology banks, as needed to ensure translation accuracy.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Word

DIA Analysis Officer

Exploiting foreign communications and producing summaries provides a foundation for analyzing foreign military capabilities.

How to prepare: Practice for DIA's writing test by producing a concise assessment of a foreign military capability using public sources. DIA requires U.S. citizenship and a granted security clearance, with background inquiry, interviews, drug screening, and any required medical examinations or counterintelligence-scope polygraph.

Training & Development

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Career Growth

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

    Validate all-source analysis experience as you develop beyond communications exploitation into broader defense intelligence analysis.

    Eligibility and preparation: Available to eligible 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 experience performing, leading, or enabling all-source analysis within the last five years.

    For: DIA Analysis Officer

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (6 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 35P Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Voice Interceptor

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 35P (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Foreign communications transcription, translation, and summarization, Communications signal acquisition and geolocation, Intelligence collection synchronization for mission requirements, Basic intelligence oversight for SIGINT operations, Interpreters and Translators (O*NET 27-3091.00), DIA Analysis Officer

  2. O*NET: Interpreters and Translators

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Interpreters and Translators (O*NET 27-3091.00)

  3. Defense Intelligence Agency: Analysis Career Field

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

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

  4. Defense Intelligence Agency: Hiring Process

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

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

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

    [5] 35P cached COOL credential feed

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

  6. DoD All Source Analysis certification requirements

    [6] Overview and Requirements

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

Defense contractor jobs for 35P

Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 35P. Each history page explains the change.

35U1Multi-Sensor Operator35U2Multi-Sensor Operator35U3Multi-Sensor Operator35U4Multi-Sensor Operator98G1Cryptologic Communications Interceptor/Locator98G2Cryptologic Communications Interceptor/Locator98G3Cryptologic Communications Interceptor/Locator98G4Cryptologic Communications Interceptor/Locator

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