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CTI Cryptologic Technician Interpretive

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Overview

A cryptologic technician interpretive uses foreign language skills, regional and cultural expertise, and advanced computer systems to collect, process, analyze, and report foreign language communications and digital network information. The technician transcribes, translates, and interprets foreign language materials, provides cultural and regional guidance, manages language programs, and safeguards classified material and information systems.

Minimum clearance: Top Secret

Minimum ASVAB: MK+VE 126

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: milpersman-1306-618-rating-list-2026-04 (source date 2026-04). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

Foreign communications analysis for threat monitoring
Digital network information and signal exploitation
Regional and cultural guidance for decision makers
Classified material and information access safeguards

Civilian Career Paths

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Interpreters and Translators

CTIs transcribe, translate, and interpret foreign-language materials while applying regional and cultural expertise to preserve meaning and context.

How to prepare: Build a translation portfolio from public materials in your working language pair, including a terminology glossary for a chosen civilian subject area.

What the civilian work involves

Translate messages simultaneously or consecutively into specified languages, orally or by using hand signs, maintaining message content, context, and style as much as possible.
Listen to speakers' statements to determine meanings and to prepare translations, using electronic listening systems as necessary.
Refer to reference materials, such as dictionaries, lexicons, encyclopedias, and computerized terminology banks, as needed to ensure translation accuracy.

Civilian tools and software (examples)

Microsoft Word

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)

NAVPERS 18068F Vol I (NEOCS, Jan 2026 edition): CRYPTOLOGIC TECHNICIAN (INTERPRETIVE) (CTI)
[1] Rating chapter "SCOPE OF RATING"; cached text line 20681; NAVPERS 18068F Vol I, 2026-01 edition
Supports: Foreign communications analysis for threat monitoring, Digital network information and signal exploitation, Regional and cultural guidance for decision makers, Classified material and information access safeguards, Interpreters and Translators (O*NET 27-3091.00)
O*NET: Interpreters and Translators
[2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data
Supports: Interpreters and Translators (O*NET 27-3091.00)

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