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785L Special Operations Forces (SOF) Full Motion Video (FMV) Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) Analyst

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Overview

A Special Operations Forces Full Motion Video Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination Analyst analyzes live and recorded video feeds from aerial and ground-based platforms to extract intelligence information. The analyst prepares reports for mission planners and decision-makers, applies image and pattern recognition techniques, incorporates geospatial data, uses specialized analysis tools, and works with intelligence and operational teams to provide real-time support to warfighters.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Geospatial context integration for video analysis
  • Target identification through image pattern recognition
  • Real-time intelligence support to mission planners

Civilian Career Paths

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Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists

Analyzing aerial and ground-based video, recognizing image patterns, and integrating geospatial data directly overlap with remote sensing analysis.

How to prepare: Build a public-data imagery analysis project that combines imagery with another geospatial dataset and documents your methods and findings.

What the civilian work involves
  • Manage or analyze data obtained from remote sensing systems to obtain meaningful results.
  • Analyze data acquired from aircraft, satellites, or ground-based platforms, using statistical analysis software, image analysis software, or Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
  • Integrate other geospatial data sources into projects.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Python

Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians

Integrating geospatial information into FMV analysis provides a foundation for producing spatial data layers, maps, and reports.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on GIS project in ESRI ArcGIS software that creates spatial layers and a map-based report from public data.

What the civilian work involves
  • Produce data layers, maps, tables, or reports, using spatial analysis procedures or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, equipment, or systems.
  • Design or prepare graphic representations of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, using GIS hardware or software applications.
  • Maintain or modify existing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) databases.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • ESRI ArcGIS software

DIA Analysis Officer

Producing intelligence reports from FMV and supporting operational decision-makers transfers to DIA analysis, particularly its military capabilities specialty.

How to prepare: Prepare an unclassified analytical writing sample using public information to practice for DIA's writing test and interview.

Notes & Sources

  • DIA requires U.S. citizenship and a granted security clearance before hiring is finalized; initial vetting includes a background inquiry, drug screening, and any required medical examinations or counterintelligence-scope polygraph.
Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 785L

    [1] NEC entry "785L - Special Operations Forces (SOF) Full Motion Video (FMV) Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) Analyst"; cached text line 19065; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Geospatial context integration for video analysis, Target identification through image pattern recognition, Real-time intelligence support to mission planners, Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists (O*NET 19-2099.01), Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 15-1299.02), DIA Analysis Officer

  2. O*NET: Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists (O*NET 19-2099.01)

  3. O*NET: Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 15-1299.02)

  4. Defense Intelligence Agency: Analysis Career Field

    [4] Career Specifics, Military Capabilities, Applying to Be an Analyst; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

  5. Defense Intelligence Agency: Hiring Process

    [5] Opening hiring overview and Employment Criteria, Initial Employment; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

Defense contractor jobs for 785L

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