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48P Foreign Area Officer, Asia-Pacific

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Overview

The Asia-Pacific Foreign Area Officer specialty identifies positions that require a Foreign Area Officer with expertise in the region. These positions also require regional training and language qualifications for the Asia-Pacific region.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Asia-Pacific regional and cultural analysis
  • Political-military advice for senior officials
  • Foreign military and interagency liaison

Civilian Career Paths

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Foreign Affairs Officer (Federal Civil Service)

For officers with regional advisory assignments, Asia-Pacific expertise and political-military advice to commanders or Chiefs of Mission transfer directly to foreign-policy analysis and advice to senior officials.

How to prepare: Map your actual assignments and transcripts to an OPM 0130 basic qualification route: relevant education, a qualifying education-experience combination, or four years of appropriate foreign-affairs experience, which may include suitable military service. Target announcements whose hiring paths and grade requirements you meet; GS-12 and higher require specified high-level specialized professional experience or direction and coordination of relevant professional work.

Notes & Sources

  • FAO assignments vary; document the advisory, liaison, regional and language experience you actually possess rather than claiming every function listed for the specialty.
  • The representative State Department GS-13 posting is restricted to its stated Department of State employee and career-transition hiring paths and requires specialized experience, U.S. citizenship and a Top Secret clearance. It is not a generally open veterans opportunity or a Foreign Service selection route.
Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 48P Foreign Area Officer, Asia-Pacific

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 48P (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Asia-Pacific regional and cultural analysis, Foreign Affairs Officer (Federal Civil Service)

  2. Army officer classification guidance: Foreign Area Officer functional scope

    [2] Section 3-48, version effective 202210, paragraphs a and b; use this version rather than the separately reproduced 201810 version

    Supports: Asia-Pacific regional and cultural analysis, Political-military advice for senior officials, Foreign military and interagency liaison, Foreign Affairs Officer (Federal Civil Service)

  3. OPM: Foreign Affairs Series 0130 qualification requirements

    [3] Basic Requirements and Evaluation of Experience; retrieved September 2026

    Supports: Foreign Affairs Officer (Federal Civil Service)

  4. Department of State: Foreign Affairs Officer, representative federal role

    [4] Duties, qualifications and hiring-path restrictions; announcement P/IO-MPI-2026-0007

    Supports: Foreign Affairs Officer (Federal Civil Service)

Defense contractor jobs for 48P

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