17A - Cyber Warfare Officer

Cyber Warfare Officers receive approximately six to nine months of initial training focused in the following areas :

• Army and Joint Doctrine, Policy, and Authorities
• Cyber and EW Threats
• Cyberspace and Electromagnetic Warfare Operations, Planning, Synchronization, and Integration
• Fundamentals of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Electrical, EW, and EMS Principles and Theories
• Characteristics of Communications Networks, Antennas, Electro-Optics, and EW Systems
• Space-Based Capabilities
• Signals Intelligence Support to EW

What does a typical day look like for the Cyber Warfare Officer?

• Lead, direct, manage, plan, integrate, synchronize, and / or execute defensive and offensive cyberspace operations and DODIN operations at all Army and Joint, Interagency, and Multinational levels.
• Utilize personnel, resources, and capabilities to engage and create effects against adversaries in and through cyberspace to preserve the ability to use friendly cyberspace capabilities;

protect data, networks, net-centric capabilities, and other designated systems; and project power by the application of force in or through cyberspace.

• Deliver effects in and through cyberspace that manifest in cyberspace or in one or more of the other domains designed to deny, degrade, disrupt, destroy, or manipulate adversary activities or operations.
• Plan, integrate, and synchronize cyberspace operations with other lethal and nonlethal actions to enable commanders to mass effects and gain advantages in the cyberspace domain, electromagnetic spectrum, and across other domains during multi-domain operations (MDO) in support of unified land operations (ULO).
• Cyber Warfare Officers command, lead, direct, and manage Cyber Mission Force teams and associated cyber units and organizations.
• The 17A also understands friendly and adversary cyberspace capabilities, objectives, organizations, and operations, as well as the broader aspects of MDO and ULO.

What qualifications are you looking for?

• Well-versed in tactics, techniques, and procedures for maneuvering in and through the cyberspace domain to deliver cyberspace actions, including cyberspace defense;
• cyberspace intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; cyberspace operational preparation of the environment; cyberspace attack;

and cyberspace security.

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.
• Must receive a favorable special background investigation with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information.
• Must be able to pass a counter-intelligence scope polygraph (unit / assignment based).
• Bachelor of Science or higher degree in specific STEM disciplines preferred, but not required.
• Must successfully complete the Cyber Branch Assessment and Selection Process, which includes but is not limited to an interview, aptitude assessment, written questionnaire, and supporting documents packet review.

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