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824G Individual Augmentation (IA) Support Assignment: Shadow Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Electronics Maintenance Specialist

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Overview

A Shadow Unmanned Aircraft System Electronics Maintenance Specialist performs maintenance, inspections, assembly, disassembly, troubleshooting, and direct support electronic repair using specialized tools and test equipment. The specialist maintains and repairs launch and recovery equipment, mission planning and ground control stations, data terminals, avionics, airborne data relays, cameras, FLIR mission payloads, and related electronics.

Core Skills

  • Ground control and mission planning station repair
  • Day camera and infrared payload maintenance
  • Launch and recovery equipment maintenance
  • Direct support electronics troubleshooting and repair

Civilian Career Paths

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Avionics Technicians

Shadow air vehicle avionics maintenance, electronic troubleshooting, and special test equipment use transfer directly to aircraft electronics testing and repair.

How to prepare: Build a troubleshooting work sample that explains fault isolation, component repair, and post-repair testing for an avionics assembly.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test and troubleshoot instruments, components, and assemblies, using circuit testers, oscilloscopes, or voltmeters.
  • Adjust, repair, or replace malfunctioning components or assemblies, using hand tools or soldering irons.
  • Set up and operate ground support and test equipment to perform functional flight tests of electrical and electronic systems.

Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians

Maintenance of Shadow launch and recovery equipment, assembly and disassembly, and electronic repair provide a foundation for electromechanical equipment testing and maintenance.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on electromechanical lab that uses schematics and test instruments to diagnose and repair an assembly.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test performance of electromechanical assemblies, using test instruments such as oscilloscopes, electronic voltmeters, or bridges.
  • Read blueprints, schematics, diagrams, or technical orders to determine methods and sequences of assembly.
  • Modify, maintain, or repair electrical, electronic, or mechanical components, equipment, or systems to ensure proper functioning.

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Repair of Shadow ground data terminals and airborne data relay equipment transfers to troubleshooting and verifying communications electronics.

How to prepare: Take a hands-on telecommunications equipment course focused on circuit fault isolation and post-repair performance testing.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.
  • Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 824G

    [1] NEC entry "824G - Individual Augmentation (IA) Support Assignment - Shadow Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Electronics Maintenance Specialist"; cached text line 21521; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Ground control and mission planning station repair, Day camera and infrared payload maintenance, Launch and recovery equipment maintenance, Direct support electronics troubleshooting and repair, Avionics Technicians (O*NET 49-2091.00), Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3024.00), Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers (O*NET 49-2022.00)

  2. O*NET: Avionics Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Avionics Technicians (O*NET 49-2091.00)

  3. O*NET: Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3024.00)

  4. O*NET: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers (O*NET 49-2022.00)

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