Careers

Career Description

Fighter jets, remotely piloted aircraft, special operations Airmen, even satellites in space all rely on incredibly secure communications. As an Electronic Systems Security Assessment specialist, you will probe our communications networks looking for exploitable weaknesses and holes. You'll also use your skills to train aircrews in simulated electronic warfare by jamming their communications and producing false communications. Your efforts will go a long way toward ensuring our communications network is airtight at all times.

Career Tasks

• Perform telecommunications monitoring in an attempt to collect and process data that identifies existing communications security (COMSEC) deficiencies and weaknesses
• Analyze communications using maps, classification guides, databases and various other analytical aids
• Participate in communications jamming (COMJAM) and imitative communications deception (ICD) operations
• Provide COMJAM and ICD training to aircrews in a simulated electronic warfare (EW) environment

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 Systems Security Assessment technical training:

School location: Goodfellow AFB [TX]

Length of course: 38 days

College degree earned: Communications Applications Technology

College credits earned: 12