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IS Intelligence Specialist

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Overview

Intelligence Specialists assist with planning, collecting, processing, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence for warfare domains ashore and afloat. They prepare and present intelligence products, exchange data with organic and nonorganic sources, and maintain intelligence files, libraries, and databases.

Minimum clearance: Top Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GS+AR+MK+VE 219 or AR+PC+MK 164

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

  • Cross-domain intelligence planning and collection support
  • Intelligence product preparation and presentation
  • Intelligence file, library, and database maintenance

Civilian Career Paths

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DIA Analysis Officer

Supporting intelligence analysis across warfare domains and preparing intelligence products transfers directly to DIA's defense analysis work, including its military capabilities specialty.

How to prepare: Prepare a writing sample using public sources on a foreign military capability to practice for DIA's writing test and panel interview. DIA requires U.S. citizenship and a granted security clearance before hiring is finalized, with background screening, drug testing, and any required medical examinations or counterintelligence-scope polygraph.

Training & Development

Choose credentials for your target role. COOL funding markers describe program listings, not a guarantee of eligibility or funding.

Career Growth

  • Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)

    Document validated all-source analysis experience relevant to the DIA analysis path.

    Eligibility and preparation: Available to DoD civilian and military personnel, including Coast Guard personnel, performing all-source analysis functions; requires a TS/SCI clearance, access to AGILE on JWICS, and at least two years of validated DoD all-source analysis experience performing, leading, or enabling analysis within the last five years.

    For: DIA Analysis Officer

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol I (NEOCS, Jan 2026 edition): INTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST (IS)

    [1] Rating chapter "SCOPE OF RATING"; cached text line 46115; NAVPERS 18068F Vol I, 2026-01 edition

    Supports: Cross-domain intelligence planning and collection support, Intelligence product preparation and presentation, Intelligence file, library, and database maintenance, DIA Analysis Officer

  2. Defense Intelligence Agency: Analysis Career Field

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

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

  3. Defense Intelligence Agency: Hiring Process

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

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

  4. COOL credential mapping: Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)

    [4] IS cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)

  5. DoD All Source Analysis certification requirements

    [5] Overview and Requirements

    Supports: Certified Department of Defense All-Source Analyst I (CDASA-I)

Defense contractor jobs for IS

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