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K36A Operational Intelligence (OPINTEL) Analyst

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

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Overview

An Operational Intelligence Analyst processes, exploits, and disseminates information, stands intelligence watches, provides indications and warnings, and conducts threat assessments. They fuse all source intelligence, perform predictive and target systems analysis, produce reports and briefs, use C4ISR systems, and maintain an all source intelligence plot.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • All-source fusion and source reliability assessment
  • Predictive analysis of trends and patterns
  • Target systems analysis and target development
  • Intelligence preparation of the operational environment

Civilian Career Paths

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DIA Analysis Officer

All-source fusion, threat assessments, predictive analysis, and intelligence reporting transfer directly to DIA's analysis of foreign military capabilities.

How to prepare: Practice writing an unclassified foreign military capabilities assessment to prepare for DIA's writing test and panel interview. DIA requires U.S. citizenship and a security clearance before hiring is finalized, along with background screening, drug testing, and any required medical or counterintelligence polygraph examinations.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC K36A

    [1] NEC entry "K36A - Operational Intelligence (OPINTEL) Analyst"; cached text line 7143; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: All-source fusion and source reliability assessment, Predictive analysis of trends and patterns, Target systems analysis and target development, Intelligence preparation of the operational environment, 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

Defense contractor jobs for K36A

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