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P11A Physical Security Specialist (PSS)

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

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Overview

A physical security specialist manages and executes physical security duties at installations, ships, and separate activities or facilities. This specialist conducts assessments across security disciplines to protect critical Department of Defense assets, resources, and personnel.

Core Skills

  • Shipboard and installation security assessments
  • Cross-discipline protection of critical defense assets

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.

Security Management Specialists

Physical security assessments protecting critical DoD assets, resources, and personnel transfer directly to civilian facility security assessment work.

How to prepare: Create a sample assessment for a fictional facility that identifies physical security concerns and recommends improvements against applicable standards.

What the civilian work involves
  • Assess the nature and level of physical security threats so that the scope of the problem can be determined.
  • Recommend improvements in security systems or procedures.
  • Inspect physical security design features, installations, or programs to ensure compliance with applicable standards or regulations.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Adobe Acrobat

Security Managers

Managing and executing physical security responsibilities at installations, ships, and facilities transfers to coordinating security operations that protect company personnel and property.

How to prepare: Build a sample facility security operating plan with a supporting budget to practice the civilian role's financial planning responsibilities.

What the civilian work involves
  • Plan, direct, or coordinate security activities to safeguard company employees, guests, or others on company property.
  • Develop budgets for security operations.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC P11A

    [1] NEC entry "P11A - Physical Security Specialist (PSS)"; cached text line 9994; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Shipboard and installation security assessments, Cross-discipline protection of critical defense assets, Security Management Specialists (O*NET 13-1199.07), Security Managers (O*NET 11-3013.01)

  2. O*NET: Security Management Specialists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Security Management Specialists (O*NET 13-1199.07)

  3. O*NET: Security Managers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Security Managers (O*NET 11-3013.01)

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