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I14A Digital Data Link Communications IMA Technician

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Overview

A Digital Data Link Communications IMA Technician performs intermediate level maintenance on data links associated with carrier aircraft. The technician services systems including ASU 14 and ASU 25 data links.

Core Skills

  • Intermediate-level ASU-14 and ASU-25 maintenance

Civilian Career Paths

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Avionics Technicians

Intermediate-level maintenance of carrier-aircraft data links transfers directly to the aircraft electronics maintenance focus of avionics work.

How to prepare: Build a work-history summary of your ASU-14/ASU-25 maintenance assignments and compare it with avionics bench-repair postings to identify component-testing or repair skills to strengthen.

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.

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Maintaining aircraft data-link equipment provides a communications-equipment maintenance foundation for moving into civilian telecommunications repair.

How to prepare: Complete hands-on practice in civilian telecommunications circuit fault isolation and post-repair testing before targeting equipment-repair openings.

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 (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC I14A

    [1] NEC entry "I14A - Digital Data Link Communications IMA Technician"; cached text line 6694; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Intermediate-level ASU-14 and ASU-25 maintenance, Avionics Technicians (O*NET 49-2091.00), 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: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

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