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785J Special Operations Forces Intelligence Targeting Officer (SOF ITO)

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

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Overview

A Special Operations Forces Intelligence Targeting Officer coordinates intelligence analysis for targeting that enables kinetic and nonkinetic effects in support of SOF mission sets. The officer augments Joint Task Forces by synchronizing, integrating, and directing Navy, Department of Defense, interagency, Intelligence Community, geospatial intelligence, human intelligence, signals intelligence, and C5ISR assets for indications and warnings, signature reduction, and precise targeting across multiple domains.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Integration of geospatial, human, and signals intelligence
  • Joint and interagency intelligence asset synchronization
  • Intelligence support for indications and warnings

Civilian Career Paths

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Intelligence Analysts

Coordinating full-spectrum targeting analysis and integrating geospatial, human, and signals intelligence provides a strong foundation for comparing intelligence across sources.

How to prepare: Build an unclassified analysis sample using public sources that compares competing accounts, identifies discrepancies, and explains the evidence supporting a conclusion.

What the civilian work involves
  • Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 785J

    [1] NEC entry "785J - Special Operations Forces Intelligence Targeting Officer (SOF ITO)"; cached text line 19028; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Integration of geospatial, human, and signals intelligence, Joint and interagency intelligence asset synchronization, Intelligence support for indications and warnings, Intelligence Analysts (O*NET 33-3021.06)

  2. O*NET: Intelligence Analysts

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Intelligence Analysts (O*NET 33-3021.06)

Defense contractor jobs for 785J

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