MOS 35S—Signals Collector / Analyst
Qualifications for initial award of MOS 35S, Signals Collector / Analyst:
PULHES:
222121
Physical
Demands Rating: light
Required
ASVAB Score: ST: 101
Enlistment
Bonus: None
Security Clearance: TS SCI
U.S. Citizenship: Required
AIT Length / Location: 16 weeks at Pensacola, Florida
Other Requirements
Signals Collector / Analyst (MOS 35S) Description / Major Duties:
The signals collector / analyst performs and supervises acquisition, collection, collection resource management, analysis and exploitation of foreign communications and radar signals at all echelons.
Duties for MOS 35S at each skill level are:
MOSC 35S1O. Operates signals intelligence (SIGINT) equipment and prepares logs and technical reports. Searches the radio frequency (RF) spectrum to collect, identify, and record target communications and selected categories or classes of electro-optic or foreign instrumentation signals (FIS). Perform basic signals analysis to determine signal parameters for identification and processing. Operate communications equipment for reporting and coordination.
MOSC 35S2O. Performs duties shown in preceding skill level and provides guidance to subordinate Soldiers. Operates signals intercept/analysis and associated equipment, assists in the establishment of operational sites, maintains technical databases in support of analysis/collection operations. Recognizes and reports items of intelligence interest. Perform intermediate signals analysis to determine parameters for identification. Perform collection management function in support of collection operations. Quality controls processing and reporting procedures.
MOSC 35S3O. Performs duties shown in preceding skill levels and provides guidance to subordinate Soldiers. Supervises basic and intermediate skill level signal collection and analysis activities, allocates collection and analysis resources to support mission requirements. Coordinate interaction with other data collection and processing activities. Prepare technical reports and quality controls technical databases in support of collection operations. Performs signal analysis on an intermediate or advanced level.
MOSC 35S4O. Performs duties shown in preceding skill
levels and provides guidance to subordinate Soldiers. Supervises and determines
signal collection requirements and identification activities. Interprets
and implements collection tasking, identifies and allocates resources
to accomplish the collection effort. Determine mission objectives and
priorities. Perform advanced levels signals analysis. Coordinate collection
activities with other intelligence disciplines.
Other Requirements for Award of MOS 35S:
(1) Normal color vision.
(2) Meet hearing acuity test standards per AR 40-501.
(3) The Soldier must meet TOP SECRET (TS) Sensitive Compartmented Information
(SCI) access eligibility requirements to be awarded this MOS. For clearance
requirements to attend training, refer to the Army Training Requirements
and Resources Systems (ATRRS).
(4) Soldier must be capable of passing a counterintelligence scope polygraph
(CSP) to hold the MOS. Soldiers who refuse to take or fail a CSP will
be reclassified.
(5) Never been a member of the U. S. Peace Corps, except as specified
in AR 614-200 (para 3-2).
(6) No information in military personnel, Provost Marshall, intelligence,
or medical records that would prevent the granting of a security eligibility
under AR 380-67 (para 3.401a).
(7) No record of conviction by court-martial.
(8) No record of conviction by a civil court for any offense other than
minor traffic violations.
(9) Soldier and spouse must not have immediate family members who reside
in a country within whose boundaries physical or mental coercion is known
to be common practice, either against-
(a) Persons accused of or acting in the interest of the U.S. or
(b) The relatives of such persons to whom they may reasonably be considered
to be bound by ties of affection, kinship, or obligation. Immediate family
for both Soldier and spouse includes both blood and step-: parents, spouse,
children, sisters, brothers, any sole living blood relative, or a person
in loco parentis per AR 600-8-10.
(10) Have neither commercial nor vested interest in a country within whose
boundaries physical or mental coercion is known to be a common practice
against persons acting in the interests of the U.S. This requirement applies
to the Soldier's spouse as well.
(11) Meet career management and development criteria contained in AR 614-200
and DA Pam 351-4.
(12) Formal training (completion of MOS 35S course under the auspices
of USAIC&FH, Ft Huachuca, AZ) mandatory.
(13) Be advised that due to the nature of training and assignments, temporary
restrictions may be placed on foreign travel both during and after the
term of service.
(14) MOS closed for reclassification at SFC, MSG and SGM, except for those
Soldiers within CMF 35.
Additional Skill Identifiers for MOS 35S:
D6—Basic Digital Network Analyst (BDNA) (skill level 1-4 only).
J1—Telemetry Collection Operations (skill levels 1-3 only).
K2—Advanced Communications Signals Analysis.
M7—Intermediate Analysis (skill level 1-2 only).
Z8—Technical ELINT Collection and Analysis (skill level 2-3 only).
Y2—Transition (personnel only) (skill level 1-3 only).
Y3—Transition (personnel only) (skill level 1-3 only).
2G—Information Systems Security Monitoring (ISSM) (skill level 1-4
only). (Rescinded on 1110)
4D—Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) Data
Analyst (Rescinded on 0911).
Article Last Modified: February 17, 2011
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