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V94B AN/SQQ-89A(V)-15 Situational Awareness Workstation Operator (SAWO)

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Overview

Situational Awareness Workstation Operators assist with classifying, tracking, localizing, and logging contacts of interest while supporting the Sonar Supervisor. They manage display formats, correlate sensor information, conduct passive acoustic and acoustic intercept analysis, provide search cueing, initiate alarms, and recommend alert conditions.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Cross-sensor correlation for undersea search cueing
  • Passive acoustic contact classification and localization
  • Acoustic intercept validation and alert recommendations
  • Threat-dependent cycling of sonar display formats

Civilian Career Paths

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Remote Sensing Technicians

Cross-sensor correlation, geographic display management, and acoustic alert validation provide transferable experience for integrating remotely sensed data and checking its accuracy.

How to prepare: Complete a GIS and remote sensing project that combines imagery with another geospatial dataset, checks alignment and accuracy, and documents display choices to build imagery-processing skills beyond sonar operations.

What the civilian work involves
  • Verify integrity and accuracy of data contained in remote sensing image analysis systems.
  • Integrate remotely sensed data with other geospatial data.
  • Adjust remotely sensed images for optimum presentation by using software to select image displays, define image set categories, or choose processing routines.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • ESRI ArcGIS software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC V94B

    [1] NEC entry "V94B - AN/SQQ-89A(V)-15 Situational Awareness Workstation Operator (SAWO)"; cached text line 15718; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    PDF page 248 (opens in a new tab)PDF page 249 (opens in a new tab)

    Supports: Cross-sensor correlation for undersea search cueing, Passive acoustic contact classification and localization, Acoustic intercept validation and alert recommendations, Threat-dependent cycling of sonar display formats, Remote Sensing Technicians (O*NET 19-4099.03)

  2. O*NET: Remote Sensing Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Open source document (opens in a new tab)

    Supports: Remote Sensing Technicians (O*NET 19-4099.03)

Defense contractor jobs for V94B

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