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850A Advance Operational Support Specialist

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

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Overview

An Advance Operational Support Specialist manages and oversees operational and administrative support for counterintelligence and HUMINT efforts and activities. This enlisted specialist carries out authorized or directed activities under national and Department of Defense policy and guidance for national security, Department of Defense, and Department of the Navy interests.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Counterintelligence and human intelligence support oversight
  • Intelligence support administration under DoD policy

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Administrative Services Managers

Managing operational and administrative support for counterintelligence and human intelligence activities provides a foundation for overseeing civilian administrative services and procedures.

How to prepare: Build a sample office operations report and schedule in Microsoft Excel to practice tracking deadlines and reviewing accuracy.

What the civilian work involves
  • Prepare and review operational reports and schedules to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
  • Analyze internal processes and recommend and implement procedural or policy changes to improve operations, such as supply changes or the disposal of records.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 850A

    [1] NEC entry "850A - Advance Operational Support Specialist"; cached text line 22176; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Counterintelligence and human intelligence support oversight, Intelligence support administration under DoD policy, Administrative Services Managers (O*NET 11-3012.00)

  2. O*NET: Administrative Services Managers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Administrative Services Managers (O*NET 11-3012.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 850A

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