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W25A LCS-1 (Freedom Variant) Operations Specialist

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating. Part of the Operations Specialist rating

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Overview

An LCS-1 Freedom Variant Operations Specialist controls and tactically employs combat aircraft in support of Sea Combat and Air Defense Commanders during Surface, Undersea, and Anti-Air Warfare operations. The specialist manages C4I databases, communications, over-the-horizon track coordination, tactical data links, and common operating and tactical pictures at afloat and ashore commands.

Core Skills

  • Joint tactical data link integration
  • Sensor correlation and tactical picture maintenance
  • Tactical aircraft control across warfare missions
  • Data link troubleshooting and fault escalation

Civilian Career Paths

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Air Traffic Controllers

Tactical aircraft control, sensor-information correlation, and communications coordination provide relevant experience for learning civilian air traffic control procedures.

How to prepare: Have an air traffic control hiring specialist assess your existing certifications, facility ratings, and documented live-traffic duties to identify the appropriate entry route and remaining training. FAA entry-level hiring requires applicants to be under 31 with one year of progressively responsible work, a bachelor's degree, or a combination of postsecondary education and work totaling one year; the supplied experienced-controller notice instead sets an original-appointment age limit of 35 and requires 52 consecutive weeks of full-time active traffic separation after certification or facility rating within five years of application at a qualifying facility, excluding pre-certification military training and allowing no educational substitute.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inform pilots about nearby planes or potentially hazardous conditions, such as weather, speed and direction of wind, or visibility problems.
  • Transfer control of departing flights to traffic control centers and accept control of arriving flights.

Notes & Sources

  • W25A duties do not document an air traffic control facility rating or qualifying post-certification traffic-separation experience, so they do not establish eligibility for the FAA experienced-controller route.
  • FAA entry-level selection also requires US citizenship, clear spoken English, medical and security screening, pre-employment tests including ATSA, and Academy and facility training. These FAA appointment rules do not govern every non-FAA position.
  • The supplied FAA experienced-controller notice requires willingness to work at any FAA facility, a pre-employment physical, drug testing, and Secret clearance; it is a resume repository rather than a guaranteed opening. Further field training, potentially including Academy courses, remains part of that route.
Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC W25A

    [1] NEC entry "W25A - LCS-1 (Freedom Variant) Operations Specialist"; cached text line 16325; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Joint tactical data link integration, Sensor correlation and tactical picture maintenance, Tactical aircraft control across warfare missions, Data link troubleshooting and fault escalation, Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  2. O*NET: Air Traffic Controllers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Air Traffic Controllers

    [3] How to Become an Air Traffic Controller; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  4. FAA: Air Traffic Controller Qualifications

    [4] Minimum qualifications and training requirements; official page updated 2025-02-27, checked 2026-09-24. Current entry-level threshold is one year, not the older three-year wording.

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  5. FAA 2026 experienced Air Traffic Control Specialist direct-hire notice

    [5] FAA-FAA-26-PUB NOT-96466: Duties, Conditions of employment, Qualifications, Education. Checked 2026-09-24; a resume repository, not a guarantee of an opening or appointment.

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

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