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1710 Offensive Cyberspace Warfare Officer

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Overview

Offensive Cyberspace Warfare Officers apply technical expertise in clandestine and overt offensive cyberspace operations, weapons platform design, infrastructure use, and intelligence support. They advise commanders on cyberspace effects, drive target pairing, conduct weaponeering, initiate effects in physical domains, and address cyberspace collection requirements.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Intelligence-informed cyber targeting and planning
  • Cyber weapons platform design and infrastructure use
  • Assessment of cascading cyber and physical effects
  • Application of cyber operational authorities

Civilian Career Paths

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Information Security Engineers

Offensive cyber operations experience, weapons platform design, and assessment of cascading effects transfer to testing security weaknesses and evaluating security controls.

How to prepare: Build a lab-based security assessment that documents tested weaknesses, their potential effects, and recommended control improvements.

What the civilian work involves
  • Identify security system weaknesses, using penetration tests.
  • Assess the quality of security controls, using performance indicators.
  • Scan networks, using vulnerability assessment tools to identify vulnerabilities.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Bash
  • Linux

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 1710

    [1] MOS 1710 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 6477; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Intelligence-informed cyber targeting and planning, Cyber weapons platform design and infrastructure use, Assessment of cascading cyber and physical effects, Application of cyber operational authorities, Information Security Engineers (O*NET 15-1299.05)

  2. O*NET: Information Security Engineers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Information Security Engineers (O*NET 15-1299.05)

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