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Career Description

From radio control to radar, there are more signals flying through the air than you can imagine. Some of them are harmless but not all of them. As an Electronic Signals Intelligence Exploitation specialist, your job will be to find those signals, determine their threat level and even track them back to their point of origin. The intelligence you gather can be the difference between mission success and failure and even life and death.

Career Tasks

• Operate many types of highly advanced electronic equipment designed to monitor, measure and analyze many types of special noncommunication signal transmissions
• Operate electronic signal collection; search; and monitor equipment, direction-finding systems, and the latest in advanced receiving systems
• Operate signal analysis and measurement systems, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and analog recorders
• Understand electromagnetic signal concepts like AM and FM transmission systems, pulsed radar operation and all the characteristics associated with these signals that allow for complete, in-depth exploitation
• Assist in preparing various urgent types of reports to be forwarded correctly and rapidly to those needing that information

Relevant Interests & Skills

• Electronics
• Science
• Mathematics
• Computer Science

Training

After eight-and-a-half weeks of Basic Military Training, every Airman goes to technical training to learn their career. Here's the basic information about Electronic Signals Intelligence Exploitation technical training:

School location: Goodfellow AFB [TX]

Length of course: 66 days

College degree earned: Communications Applications Technology

College credits earned: 25