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0291 Intelligence Chief

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Overview

An Intelligence Chief manages intelligence capabilities and capacity assigned to a command and oversees intelligence production in support of commanders and organizational operations. The chief coordinates national intelligence capabilities, advises leaders on the employment of intelligence personnel and capabilities, and guides the professional development of the enlisted intelligence workforce.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Intelligence capacity allocation and production oversight
  • National intelligence capability integration with operations
  • Command advice on intelligence personnel employment

Civilian Career Paths

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DIA Analysis Officer

Managing intelligence production and integrating national intelligence capabilities provides relevant defense intelligence experience for DIA's analysis career field.

How to prepare: Prepare an unclassified foreign military capabilities assessment to practice for DIA's writing test and panel interview. DIA requires U.S. citizenship and security clearance approval, background screening, 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 all-source analytic competence if your production leadership includes qualifying experience performing, leading, or enabling all-source analysis.

    Eligibility and preparation: Available to DoD civilian and military personnel, including Coast Guard personnel, who perform all-source analysis functions, hold TS/SCI clearance with access to AGILE on JWICS, and have 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

  • DIA conducts most hiring at entry level; mid- and senior-level vacancies are posted as mission needs dictate.
Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 0291

    [1] MOS 0291 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 27155; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Intelligence capacity allocation and production oversight, National intelligence capability integration with operations, Command advice on intelligence personnel employment, 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] 0291 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 0291

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