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704C Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Technical Surveillance Operator (TSO)

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Overview

A Naval Special Warfare technical surveillance operator conducts hostile force tagging, tracking, locating, geolocation, and nonstandard communications operations in support of intelligence requirements. The operator also employs unattended ground sensors and performs tactical audio, video, and photography operations in air, maritime, and ground environments.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Hostile-force tagging, tracking, and geolocation
  • Unattended ground sensor operations
  • Tactical audio, video, and photography
  • Non-standard communications across air, sea, and land

Civilian Career Paths

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DIA Analysis Officer

Hostile-force tracking and geolocation supporting commanders' intelligence requirements provide collection-side experience relevant to defense intelligence analysis.

How to prepare: Draft a public-source assessment of foreign military capabilities to practice for DIA's writing test and interview; most entry-level hiring uses invitation-only events. DIA requires U.S. citizenship, background vetting, a security clearance before hiring is finalized, drug screening, and any required medical or counterintelligence-scope polygraph examinations.

Audio and Video Technicians

Operating tactical audio and video equipment provides a practical foundation for civilian recording and media-system operation.

How to prepare: Build a short recording-and-playback demonstration using civilian audio/video equipment, including digitizing and storing the recorded media.

What the civilian work involves
  • Install, adjust, and operate electronic equipment to record, edit, and transmit radio and television programs, motion pictures, video conferencing, or multimedia presentations.
  • Compress, digitize, duplicate, and store audio and video data.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Zoom

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 704C

    [1] NEC entry "704C - Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Technical Surveillance Operator (TSO)"; cached text line 16588; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Hostile-force tagging, tracking, and geolocation, Unattended ground sensor operations, Tactical audio, video, and photography, Non-standard communications across air, sea, and land, DIA Analysis Officer, Audio and Video Technicians (O*NET 27-4011.00)

  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. O*NET: Audio and Video Technicians

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Audio and Video Technicians (O*NET 27-4011.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 704C

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