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INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST - TITLE 32

Air National Guard Units

Department of the Air Force

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$74,678 - $97,087

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GS-1 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $21,996 - $27,534

Typical requirements: No experience required. High school diploma or equivalent.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves working as part of a team that analyzes satellite and aerial images to support military missions, such as identifying threats, assessing damage from strikes, and providing real-time intelligence to commanders.

It requires strong skills in interpreting visual data and collaborating with others in high-pressure situations.

A good fit would be someone with military experience in intelligence, attention to detail, and the ability to think quickly under stress.

Key Requirements

  • Membership in the Georgia Air National Guard (or compatible Air Force Reserve/Active Duty component)
  • Military grade E1-E6 and compatible AFSC 1N0X1 (All-Source Intelligence Analyst)
  • At least 36 months of specialized experience in developing intelligence policies, organizing programs, and evaluating operations
  • Experience collecting, evaluating, and organizing facts to produce clear reports
  • Ability to interpret and exploit imagery for targeting, threat analysis, and battle damage assessment
  • Proficiency in multi-intelligence correlation and sensor re-tasking for time-critical operations
  • Strong communication skills for briefing missions and updating command systems

Full Job Description

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.

This National Guard position is for a Intelligence Operations Specialist, Position Description D1797000 and is part of the 116th Operations Group, Robins AFB, Georgia.

This is a full-time, Excepted Permanent, dual status position which requires Georgia Air National Guard Membership.

Area of Consideration: Current member of the Georgia Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve or Air Force Active Duty component.

Each applicant must fully substantiate (in her/his own words) that they meet the requirements of the specialized experience listed below; otherwise, the applicant will be considered unqualified for this vacancy.

DO NOT COPY THE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT OR THE POSITION DESCRIPTION. IF YOU DO THIS YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED UNQUALIFIED FOR THE VACANCY.

Please ensure that you have included beginning and ending dates (month and year) for all jobs listed on your resume. Military Grades: E1-E6. Compatible Military Assignments: AFSC: 1N0X1.

General Experience: Experience, education, or training which demonstrates administrative, professional, investigative, or technical work requiring the ability to deal effectively with others, to collect, evaluate and organize pertinent facts.

Experience preparing clear and concise written reports.

Specialized Experience: Must have at least 36 months experience, education or training developing and recommending policy, organizing and carrying out specific programs, evaluating and recommending changes in methods of intelligence operations.

Experience in administrative, investigative, or technical work which required the applicant to deal effectively with others.

Experience collecting, evaluating and organizing pertinent facts and to analyze and prepare clear and concise reports. Major Duties:

As an Intelligence Operations Specialist, GS-0132-11, you will: Serve as a DGS crew member in the IMINT exploitation section, responsible for IMINT operations and production affecting time critical targeting (TCT), direct threat warning, battle damage assessment, combat identification, combat search and rescue, multi-INT correlation, threat analysis, mapping, intelligence preparation of the battle space, situation monitoring, and mission reporting.

Provides IMINT correlation of data from multiple ISR platforms and intelligence products.

Request dynamic sensor re-tasking in order to exploit time critical information not originally entered into the collection plan.

Assess the data and provide cross-sensor cueing/tips-offs to other platforms and exploitation sections improving multi-INT correlation.

Update Air Force DCGS (Distributed Common Ground Station) components and C4I nodes on IMINT findings. Evaluate and interpret raw IMINT information received from all sources.

Assess present or future value and need of information and forwards to National Agencies, Joint Commands, Air Force MAJCOMs, and AOCs.

Establish meaning of information alters or adds significance to information to tend to conform or refute existing estimates of situations.

Conduct studies and assemble factual data as required for analysis and interpretation. Participate in pre-mission conferences to outline mission objectives, potential threats, and possible outcomes.

Interpret, exploit, and plot information derived from imagery, establishing specific data such as distance, cubic capacity of buildings, tanks and storage facilities, line of communications, transportation systems, number, type and specific location of facilities and marshaling areas, troop movements and contour of terrain and man-made features.

Indicates changes revealed in current photographs in comparison with previous ones and in relation to other pertinent reference material.

Plot simulated or actual bomb impact points and indirect bomb damage assessment (BDA).

Prepare BDA reports; produce uncontrolled photographic mosaics, control charts, scribed overlays, procedure charts, maps, and aerial photo overlays to include details such as location of airports, facilities, defenses and other elements or features not ordinarily shown on maps and charts.

Use raw Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery and other sources to accomplish time critical taskings received from National Agencies, Joint Commands, Air Force MAJCOMs, and AOCs.

Prepare post-mission reports from IMINT analysis of patterns, trends, and characteristics for general intelligence and operational community consumption.

Prepare and evaluate finished reports relative to IMINT activities. Brief analysis findings and estimates to superiors and mission planners.

Publish finished reports and documents for use by decision-makers in the squadron, AOC, Air Force MAJCOMs, Joint Commands, and the National Agencies.

Research, analyze and plan IMINT exploitation activities in preparation for operational missions. Utilize allotted resources for IMINT operations and analysis activities.

Communicate with other intelligence departments and agencies to share data and techniques, findings, and planning for future operations.

Work with other crew members to ensure the IMINT exploitation section maintains a capability to provide timely and accurate operational intelligence support and fully trained intelligence personnel during peacetime and contingency operations.

Coordinate with the Gaining Command on operational intelligence elements needed to carry out coordination and liaison with counterparts and colleagues in such other major command intelligence organizations as Air Combat Command (ACC) and Air Mobility Command (AMC), Air National Guard Bureau Headquarters (NGB), United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE), Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) and such other governmental agencies as Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National Security Agency (NSA), U.S.

Space Command (SPACECOM), Air Intelligence Agency (AIA), U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Represent the organization at interagency conferences and meetings that deal with specialty functions and internal training requirements at the unit level.

To enhance the DGS crew's mission readiness, maintain a thorough knowledge of all aspects of internal IMINT training.

Represent the unit in making agreements and commitments within the assigned scope of his/her functional specialty.

Provide guidance and assistance to unit and Gaining Command Intelligence specialists and serve to coordinate on projects jointly undertaken by the unit, gaining command, and other organizations.

Perform other duties as assigned.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/12/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/12/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: GA-12906160-AF-26-104