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V56A Combat Systems Maintenance Manager (CSMM), Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Management

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Overview

A Combat Systems Maintenance Manager directs, integrates, and manages combat systems maintenance while evaluating material and operational readiness and managing combat system alignment. The manager oversees AEGIS Weapon System Baselines 6 and higher that use commercial off-the-shelf computers and supports management of the AEGIS local area network and weapons system platform information technology security infrastructure.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Combat systems material and operational readiness assessment
  • Integrated combat system alignment management
  • AEGIS baseline management using COTS computers
  • AEGIS network and IT security oversight

Civilian Career Paths

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First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Directing and integrating combat systems maintenance while evaluating equipment readiness transfers to supervising electronics maintenance and repair work.

How to prepare: Build a maintenance-supervision work sample showing how you coordinated maintenance, assessed readiness, and verified completion, targeting electronics maintenance employers.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
  • Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Project

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Combat system alignment management, readiness evaluation, and working knowledge of COTS equipment provide a systems-level foundation for industrial electronics maintenance.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on industrial electronics troubleshooting course covering fault isolation and test equipment use to bridge from maintenance oversight to direct repair.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment or software, and applying knowledge of the functional operation of electronic units and systems.
  • Maintain equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations, or tests.
  • Set up and test industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Circuit evaluation software
  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC V56A

    [1] NEC entry "V56A - Combat Systems Maintenance Manager (CSMM), Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Management"; cached text line 14521; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Combat systems material and operational readiness assessment, Integrated combat system alignment management, AEGIS baseline management using COTS computers, AEGIS network and IT security oversight, First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers (O*NET 49-1011.00), Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00)

  2. O*NET: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers (O*NET 49-1011.00)

  3. O*NET: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00)

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