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5970 Tactical Data Systems Officer

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Overview

Tactical Data Systems Officers supervise and coordinate the siting, installation, operation, training, maintenance, and repair of aviation command and control tactical data systems. They advise commanders on the employment, security, installation, and performance of tactical data infrastructure in service, joint, coalition, and garrison environments.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Aviation command-and-control infrastructure siting and installation
  • Ground-based air defense systems maintenance coordination
  • Voice and tactical data communications expertise
  • Joint and coalition infrastructure technical advising

Civilian Career Paths

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Telecommunications Engineering Specialists

Coordinating tactical communications installation and advising commanders on infrastructure employment, security, and performance transfers to telecommunications assessment and implementation work.

How to prepare: Build a sample civilian telecommunications upgrade plan covering facility needs, technical requirements, and installation coordination.

What the civilian work involves
  • Consult with users, administrators, and engineers to identify business and technical requirements for proposed system modifications or technology purchases.
  • Implement system renovation projects in collaboration with technical staff, engineering consultants, installers, and vendors.
  • Assess existing facilities' needs for new or modified telecommunications systems.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Microsoft Excel

Communications Electronics Maintenance Supervisor

Supervising the installation, training, maintenance, and repair of command-and-control and air defense systems directly supports leading communications electronics maintenance teams.

How to prepare: Prepare a maintenance-supervision work sample showing how you would allocate technician work and verify completed communications equipment repairs against specifications.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
  • Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Project

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 5970

    [1] MOS 5970 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 15663; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Aviation command-and-control infrastructure siting and installation, Ground-based air defense systems maintenance coordination, Voice and tactical data communications expertise, Joint and coalition infrastructure technical advising, Telecommunications Engineering Specialists (O*NET 15-1241.01), Communications Electronics Maintenance Supervisor (O*NET 49-1011.00)

  2. O*NET: Telecommunications Engineering Specialists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Telecommunications Engineering Specialists (O*NET 15-1241.01)

  3. O*NET: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Communications Electronics Maintenance Supervisor (O*NET 49-1011.00)

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