USAF

Specialty Summary.  Performs, supervises, or manages data, information, and knowledge-sharing services in a fixed and expeditionary environment.  Includes planning, coordinating, sharing, and controlling an organization’s data and information assets.  Manages technologies to capture, organize, and store tacit and explicit knowledge. 

Specialty Summary.  Installs, supports and maintains servers or other computer systems and plans for responding to service outages and interruptions to network operations.  Administers server-based networked systems, distributed applications, network storage, messaging, and application monitoring required to provision, sustain, operate and integrate cyber networked  systems and applications in garrison and at deployed locations.  Core competencies include:  server operating systems, database administration, web technologies, systems-related project management and supervising computer operators as well as consultant for computer-based problems beyond the knowledge of Client Systems technicians.  Supports identification, reconnaissance and exploitation of vulnerabilities while enhancing capabilities within cyber environments to achieve desired affects. 

Specialty Summary.  Supervises or operates fixed and deployed information technology (IT) and telecommunications resources to monitor, evaluate and maintain systems, policy and procedures to protect clients, networks, data/voice systems and databases from unauthorized activity.  Identifies potential threats and manages resolution of security violations.  Enforces national, DoD and Air Force security policies and directives; employs hardware and software tools to enhance the security by installing, monitoring and directing proactive and reactive information protection and defensive measures to ensure Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA) of IT resources.  Administers and manages the overall Information Assurance (IA) program to include Communications Security (COMSEC), Emissions Security (EMSEC) and Computer Security (COMPUSEC) programs.

Specialty Summary.  Supervises and performs as computer analyst, coder, tester and manager in the design, development, maintenance, testing, configuration management, and documentation of application software systems, client-server, and web-enabled software and relational database systems critical to warfighting capabilities. 

Specialty Summary.  Deploys, sustains, troubleshoots and repairs standard voice, data, video network and cryptographic client devices in fixed and deployed environments.  Sustains and operates systems through effective troubleshooting, repair, and system performance analysis.  Manages client user accounts and organizational client device accounts.

Specialty Summary.  Deploys, sustains, troubleshoots and repairs standard voice, data and video network infrastructure systems, IP detection systems and cryptographic equipment.  Performs, coordinates, integrates and supervises network design, configuration, operation, defense, restoration, and improvements.  Analyzes capabilities and performance, identifies problems, and takes corrective action.  Fabricates, terminates, and interconnects wiring and associated network infrastructure devices. 

Specialty Summary.  Deploys, sustains, troubleshoots and repairs standard radio frequency wireless, line-of-sight, beyond line-of-sight, wideband, and ground-based satellite and encryption transmission devices in a fixed and deployed environment.  Included are multiple waveform systems operating across the spectrum, keying and signal devices; telemetry, and instrumentation systems.  Establishes and maintains circuits, configures and manages system and network connectivity.

Specialty Summary.  The Spectrum Operations technician analyzes requirements and requests frequencies to support terrestrial, aircraft, and space systems and coordinate radio, radar, land, and other electromagnetic radiating or receiving requirements.  They possess a solid understanding of wireless communications systems technologies and configurations and provide guidance to program offices, developers, and potential users of radiating and receiving equipment planned for introduction into the Air Force inventory and for modification to existing equipment.