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183X Intelligence Officer

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A Navy officer classification, not an enlisted rating.

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Overview

An Intelligence Officer helps collect, evaluate, and disseminate naval intelligence for surface, air, and antisubmarine warfare units and operational staffs. The officer participates in reconnaissance and prisoner interrogations, maintains intelligence plots and order of battle information, and prepares reports and estimates.

Core Skills

  • All-source assessment of adversary capabilities and intentions
  • Predictive analysis using regional and technical expertise
  • Communication of adversary threats to commanders

Civilian Career Paths

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DIA Analysis Officer

Navy experience developing all-source, predictive assessments of adversary capabilities and intentions directly supports DIA's military-capabilities analysis specialty.

How to prepare: Practice writing a foreign-military-capabilities assessment to prepare for DIA's writing test and panel interview. DIA hiring requires U.S. citizenship and a granted security clearance, with background vetting, drug screening, and any required medical examinations and counterintelligence polygraph.

Training & Development

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Getting Started

  • Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)

    Formally recognize existing DoD all-source analysis experience relevant to DIA analysis work.

    Eligibility and preparation: Available to DoD civilian and military personnel, including Coast Guard personnel, performing all-source analysis functions. Requires TS/SCI clearance, access to AGILE on JWICS, and at least two years of validated DoD all-source analysis experience performing, leading, or enabling analysis within the past five years.

    For: DIA Analysis Officer

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. MyNavy HR: Officer Community Management, Information Warfare, Intelligence (1830)

    [1] Community Overview, Mission, and Guiding Principles sections; official page retrieved through https://r.jina.ai/

    Supports: All-source assessment of adversary capabilities and intentions, Predictive analysis using regional and technical expertise, Communication of adversary threats to commanders, 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] 183X 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 183X

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