Marine Corps MOS · IT & Cyber

1702 Cyberspace Warfare Officer

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Overview

A Cyberspace Warfare Officer leads cyber forces and plans and directs their employment in support of tactical, operational, and strategic objectives. The officer evaluates intelligence, assesses the information environment, integrates information forces, and advises commanders on cyberspace operations.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Intelligence evaluation for cyberspace operational planning
  • Information force integration across military operations
  • Commander advising on cyberspace employment

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Cybersecurity Operations Manager

Leading cyber forces and planning their employment transfers directly to coordinating cybersecurity teams, setting operational priorities, and reviewing work plans.

How to prepare: Build an unclassified sample cybersecurity team work plan that translates mission objectives into staffing assignments, priorities, and deadlines.

What the civilian work involves
  • Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.
  • Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.
  • Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Atlassian JIRA

DIA Analysis Officer

Evaluating intelligence and advising commanders on cyberspace operations provides a foundation for DIA's analysis of foreign military capabilities in cyberspace.

How to prepare: Prepare a public-source writing sample assessing a foreign military cyberspace capability for DIA's writing test and interview process. DIA requires U.S. citizenship and a granted security clearance before hiring is finalized, with background screening, drug testing, and any required medical or counterintelligence-scope polygraph examinations.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 1702

    [1] MOS 1702 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 5999; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Intelligence evaluation for cyberspace operational planning, Information force integration across military operations, Commander advising on cyberspace employment, Cybersecurity Operations Manager (O*NET 11-3021.00), DIA Analysis Officer

  2. O*NET: Computer and Information Systems Managers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Cybersecurity Operations Manager (O*NET 11-3021.00)

  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

Defense contractor jobs for 1702

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