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715B Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) Journeyman

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating.

Overview

An Integrated Undersea Surveillance System Journeyman supervises the detection, analysis, localization, and reporting of ocean-borne acoustics from FSS and SURTASS sensors. The journeyman performs Target Motion Analysis, develops tracks, correlates multiple sensors, plans missions, and conducts quality assurance and contact reconstruction.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Ocean acoustic detection and contact localization
  • Target motion analysis and track development
  • Multi-sensor correlation for undersea surveillance
  • Acoustic contact reconstruction and quality assurance

Civilian Career Paths

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DIA Analysis Officer

Undersea acoustic analysis, contact tracking, and multi-sensor reporting provide a foundation for DIA's analysis of foreign military capabilities at sea.

How to prepare: Prepare an unclassified assessment of a foreign naval capability to practice for DIA's writing test and interview. DIA requires U.S. citizenship and a granted security clearance, with background screening, drug testing, and any required medical examination or counterintelligence-scope polygraph.

Remote Sensing Technicians

Multi-sensor correlation, contact localization, and quality assurance transfer to integrating geospatial observations and checking remotely sensed data.

How to prepare: Complete an introductory GIS and remote-sensing course, then build an ArcGIS project that integrates imagery with another geospatial dataset and documents accuracy checks.

What the civilian work involves
  • Verify integrity and accuracy of data contained in remote sensing image analysis systems.
  • Integrate remotely sensed data with other geospatial data.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • ESRI ArcGIS software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 715B

    [1] NEC entry "715B - Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) Journeyman"; cached text line 16813; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Ocean acoustic detection and contact localization, Target motion analysis and track development, Multi-sensor correlation for undersea surveillance, Acoustic contact reconstruction and quality assurance, DIA Analysis Officer, Remote Sensing Technicians (O*NET 19-4099.03)

  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: Remote Sensing Technicians

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Remote Sensing Technicians (O*NET 19-4099.03)

Defense contractor jobs for 715B

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