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V18A CIWS MK-15 BLOCK 11-14 Technician

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Overview

The CIWS MK-15 BLOCK 11-14 technician performs preventive and corrective maintenance on assigned equipment using ordnance publications, circuit diagrams, and other technical documentation. The technician analyzes casualties, isolates faults, operates, tests, repairs, and aligns equipment, performs target kill assessments, and operates control panels and computers during tactical situations and test and evaluation.

Core Skills

  • Fault isolation using circuit diagrams
  • Equipment testing, repair, and alignment
  • Local and remote control panel operation

Civilian Career Paths

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Your experience isolating faults, interpreting circuit diagrams, and testing, repairing, and aligning CIWS equipment transfers directly to electronics maintenance and diagnostic work.

How to prepare: Prepare a non-sensitive work sample showing how you used a circuit diagram to isolate a fault, select a repair, and verify equipment performance.

What the civilian work involves
  • Modify, maintain, or repair electronics equipment or systems to ensure proper functioning.
  • Set up and operate specialized or standard test equipment to diagnose, test, or analyze the performance of electronic components, assemblies, or systems.
  • Read blueprints, wiring diagrams, schematic drawings, or engineering instructions for assembling electronics units, applying knowledge of electronic theory and components.

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Your circuit-diagram interpretation, fault isolation, and equipment testing experience supports telecommunications equipment troubleshooting and repair verification.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on telecommunications equipment course that includes wiring, circuit fault isolation, and post-repair performance testing.

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.
  • Assemble and install communication equipment such as data and telephone communication lines, wiring, switching equipment, wiring frames, power apparatus, computer systems, and networks.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC V18A

    [1] NEC entry "V18A - CIWS MK-15 BLOCK 11-14 Technician"; cached text line 13351; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Fault isolation using circuit diagrams, Equipment testing, repair, and alignment, Local and remote control panel operation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3023.00), Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers (O*NET 49-2022.00)

  2. O*NET: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3023.00)

  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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