Navy NEC · Engineering

V57B AN/SQQ-34C (V) 2 Aircraft Carrier Tactical Support Center (CV-TSC) Maintenance Technicians

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

Overview

The AN/SQQ-34C(V)2 Aircraft Carrier Tactical Support Center Maintenance Technician maintains the system and its peripheral equipment in support of carrier operations. The technician starts up and shuts down the system, performs organizational maintenance, interprets alerts and malfunctions, isolates faults to replaceable units, and completes prescribed preventive maintenance.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Built-in diagnostics for replaceable-unit fault isolation
  • System alert and degraded-status interpretation
  • Processor, display, and peripheral equipment maintenance

Civilian Career Paths

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Your experience isolating faults to replaceable units and maintaining CV-TSC processors, displays, and peripherals transfers directly to electronics maintenance and troubleshooting.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on electronics troubleshooting lab that uses schematic drawings and external test equipment to diagnose faults beyond built-in system alerts.

What the civilian work involves
  • Modify, maintain, or repair electronics equipment or systems to ensure proper functioning.
  • Replace defective components or parts, using hand tools and precision instruments.
  • Set up and operate specialized or standard test equipment to diagnose, test, or analyze the performance of electronic components, assemblies, or systems.

Computer Network Support Specialists

Your organizational-level maintenance of CV-TSC network equipment and use of diagnostic functions to locate faults provide a foundation for civilian network troubleshooting.

How to prepare: Build a small Windows or Linux network lab, introduce connectivity faults, and document the diagnostic steps and fixes.

What the civilian work involves
  • Identify the causes of networking problems, using diagnostic testing software and equipment.
  • Document network support activities.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Linux
  • Microsoft Windows

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC V57B

    [1] NEC entry "V57B - AN/SQQ-34C (V) 2 Aircraft Carrier Tactical Support Center (CV-TSC) Maintenance Technicians"; cached text line 14597; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Built-in diagnostics for replaceable-unit fault isolation, System alert and degraded-status interpretation, Processor, display, and peripheral equipment maintenance, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3023.00), Computer Network Support Specialists (O*NET 15-1231.00)

  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: Computer Network Support Specialists

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Computer Network Support Specialists (O*NET 15-1231.00)

Defense contractor jobs for V57B

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