Internal reference: INT. The Coast Guard does not publish a short code for this career field.
Collect and analyze intelligence for maritime security and law enforcement operations. Brief commanders on threats to maritime safety.
Officer - College Degree Required, Security Clearance
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Intelligence Officers lead the analysis teams that support interdiction, port security, fisheries enforcement, and maritime domain awareness. Days revolve around the production cycle: tasking collection, reviewing analysts' work, briefing commanders, and pushing assessments out to operational units and partner agencies. Because this service works inside the Department of Homeland Security and mostly in American waters and approaches, your customers include other federal agencies, state fusion centers, and police as often as military commands. You sit in planning sessions where your assessment decides where a cutter or aircraft spends its limited hours. A commission through the Academy, Officer Candidate School, or direct commission is required, and the work is classified almost end to end.
You learn structured analytic technique, source evaluation, and how to write an assessment that states its confidence level honestly instead of hiding behind hedges. Leading analysts teaches collection management, prioritization, and quality control over other people's reasoning. Briefing senior decision makers sharpens your ability to be concise, precise, and clear about what you do not know. You become fluent in information sharing rules and the legal limits on intelligence work in a domestic context. Program management, security administration, and the personnel leadership of a small specialized team all come with the billet.
The role builds intellectual honesty, because overstating certainty eventually costs somebody an operation or sends a cutter to the wrong stretch of ocean. You learn to hold judgments loosely and update them the moment evidence shifts. Managing analysts develops the ability to critique work hard while keeping the person who produced it motivated to try again. Discretion becomes instinctive after years of knowing things you cannot discuss with friends or family. You also develop the nerve to tell a commander something they would rather not hear, and to say it early enough to matter.
Federal agencies hire intelligence officers steadily, and a clearance plus law enforcement adjacent experience is a strong combination. Analytic and program management roles across the intelligence community, the Homeland Security components, and their contractors are the common destinations. Corporate security intelligence, risk consulting, maritime and supply chain analysis, and bank financial crime units also recruit from this background. Some officers use the GI Bill for graduate work in security studies or an MBA and move into general management. Over a full career the leadership record tends to travel further than the subject matter expertise does.
You arrive at the intelligence spaces early to pull the overnight message traffic and update the maritime threat picture on your classified terminals. Much of your day is spent fusing reports, tracking vessels of interest, and building the assessment slides you'll deliver at the commander's morning brief. You coordinate with analysts across agencies, answer requests for information from cutters underway, and refine targeting packages for law enforcement operations.
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$77,814–$144,392
2026 basic pay only; the same grade and service time pay the same across jobs. Promotions are assumed, not promised. Excludes allowances, bonuses and special pays.
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Official military rank referenceThe October 2026 Reserve Servicewide Examination announcement makes advancement conditional on rating/pay-grade qualifications and command recommendation, with rating-specific examination exceptions. Its scope is Reserve E-5 through E-7, not every grade or active-duty cycle. It does not establish a promotion ceiling for this listing.
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Collect and analyze intelligence for maritime security and law enforcement operations. Brief commanders on threats to maritime safety.
Intelligence Officers lead the analysis teams that support interdiction, port security, fisheries enforcement, and maritime domain awareness. Days revolve around the production cycle: tasking collection, reviewing analysts' work, briefing commanders, and pushing assessments out to operational units and partner agencies. Because this service works inside the Department of Homeland Security and mostly in American waters and approaches, your customers include other federal agencies, state fusion centers, and police as often as military commands. You sit in planning sessions where your assessment decides where a cutter or aircraft spends its limited hours. A commission through the Academy, Officer Candidate School, or direct commission is required, and the work is classified almost end to end.
You learn structured analytic technique, source evaluation, and how to write an assessment that states its confidence level honestly instead of hiding behind hedges. Leading analysts teaches collection management, prioritization, and quality control over other people's reasoning. Briefing senior decision makers sharpens your ability to be concise, precise, and clear about what you do not know. You become fluent in information sharing rules and the legal limits on intelligence work in a domestic context. Program management, security administration, and the personnel leadership of a small specialized team all come with the billet.
Federal agencies hire intelligence officers steadily, and a clearance plus law enforcement adjacent experience is a strong combination. Analytic and program management roles across the intelligence community, the Homeland Security components, and their contractors are the common destinations. Corporate security intelligence, risk consulting, maritime and supply chain analysis, and bank financial crime units also recruit from this background. Some officers use the GI Bill for graduate work in security studies or an MBA and move into general management. Over a full career the leadership record tends to travel further than the subject matter expertise does.
Officer - College Degree Required, Security Clearance. This is the catalog's listed requirement, not an individual eligibility decision. Confirm the current standard and any exceptions with the service.
A civilian can pursue this specialty through an officer accession path, subject to eligibility and assignment. Confirm the current status of this specific classification with an official recruiter.
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Coast Guard officer support specialties · reviewed 2026-09-26
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