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IT Information Systems Technician

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Overview

An Information Systems Technician builds, configures, deploys, operates, and maintains networks and information systems while providing tiered customer support. The technician implements cybersecurity controls, maintains Radio Frequency communications systems, manages spectrum, handles, stores, transmits, and retrieves Naval messages, and controls Communications Security materials and equipment.

Minimum clearance: Top Secret

Minimum ASVAB: VE+MK+GS 162 or AR+MK+EI+VE 220

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

  • Network deployment and tiered customer support
  • Security control implementation across networked systems
  • Radio communications and tactical spectrum management
  • COMSEC material accountability and control

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.

Network and Computer Systems Administrators

Building, configuring, deploying, operating, and maintaining Navy networks and information systems transfers directly to civilian systems administration.

How to prepare: Build a small Linux or Windows network lab and document configuration, backup restoration, and troubleshooting exercises as a work sample.

What the civilian work involves
  • Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments, including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
  • Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.
  • Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Linux
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Ansible software

Information Security Analysts

Implementing security controls to protect Navy networks and information systems provides directly relevant experience for information security analysis.

How to prepare: Create a lab-based security assessment that documents a system's risks, implemented controls, and test results.

What the civilian work involves
  • Develop plans to safeguard computer files against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure and to meet emergency data processing needs.
  • Perform risk assessments and execute tests of data processing system to ensure functioning of data processing activities and security measures.
  • Modify computer security files to incorporate new software, correct errors, or change individual access status.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Linux
  • Microsoft PowerShell
  • Python

Training & Development

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

Getting Started

  • CompTIA Network+ · Funded

    Support preparation for network administration work. CompTIA recommends A+ certification and 9 to 12 months of hands-on junior network administration or network support experience; these are recommendations, not mandatory prerequisites.

    For: Network and Computer Systems Administrators

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) · Funded

    Develop and validate network fundamentals, IP connectivity, IP services, security fundamentals, and automation knowledge for network-focused administration positions.

    For: Network and Computer Systems Administrators

  • CompTIA Security+ · Funded

    Validate foundational security skills for analyst work. CompTIA recommends Network+ and two years in a security or systems administrator role as preparation, not as mandatory eligibility requirements.

    For: Information Security Analysts

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (7 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Volume I, January 2026: Information Systems Technician

    [1] Chapter 67, IT-04, Scope of Rating; cached text lines 61318-61325

    Supports: Network deployment and tiered customer support, Security control implementation across networked systems, Radio communications and tactical spectrum management, COMSEC material accountability and control, Network and Computer Systems Administrators (O*NET 15-1244.00), Information Security Analysts (O*NET 15-1212.00)

  2. O*NET: Network and Computer Systems Administrators

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Network and Computer Systems Administrators (O*NET 15-1244.00)

  3. O*NET: Information Security Analysts

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Information Security Analysts (O*NET 15-1212.00)

  4. COOL credential mapping: CompTIA Network+

    [4] IT cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: CompTIA Network+

    [5]CompTIA: Network+ (Plus) certification exam details · Exam details; retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: CompTIA Network+

  5. COOL credential mapping: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

    [6] IT cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

    [7]Cisco: CCNA certification · How to earn your CCNA, Core exam 200-301 CCNA; updated 31 August 2026, retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

  6. COOL credential mapping: CompTIA Security+

    [8] IT cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: CompTIA Security+

  7. CompTIA Security+ exam details

    [9] Exam details, recommended experience

    Supports: CompTIA Security+

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