Collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence for naval operations. Brief commanders on threat assessments and operational intelligence.
Officer - College Degree Required, Security Clearance
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Intelligence Officers turn collected information into assessments commanders actually use, and the work happens in briefing rooms, watch floors and secure spaces. Afloat you brief the captain and the air wing, manage the intelligence team and keep the picture current as an operation develops. Ashore you might support a staff, a special operations unit, a program office or a joint command, usually on a steadier schedule. Watch rotations, long nights before a major operation and the standing deadline of the morning brief define the rhythm. Sea tours send you on deployment for months, while shore tours are where much of this career actually happens.
You learn to collect, evaluate and fuse information from many sources into a judgment you will defend with your name attached. Briefing becomes a genuine skill, including the discipline of separating what you know from what you assess and what you are guessing. Targeting, order of battle analysis and geospatial tools give you a technical vocabulary that civilian analysts already share. A bachelor's degree with a commission from the Naval Academy, NROTC or Officer Candidate School is required, and writing ability matters more here than in most designators. Managing analysts teaches task assignment, quality control and the counseling side of leading educated people.
Analysis builds intellectual honesty, because overstating your confidence is the one mistake that permanently damages an analyst's reputation. You get comfortable delivering bad news to senior people and holding your ground when they push back hard. The work sharpens curiosity into something disciplined, aimed at the question that actually bears on the decision. Deadlines with incomplete information teach you to deliver a useful answer on time instead of a perfect one late. Intelligence officers tend to be well-read, skeptical people who write clearly and think before they speak.
A clearance held continuously across a career is the most portable thing you carry out of this job. Cleared analytic work with federal agencies and defense contractors recruits heavily from this community, and the compensation is solid. Corporate roles in threat intelligence, geopolitical risk, due diligence and competitive intelligence use the same analytic tradecraft under different names. The briefing and writing ability also moves into consulting, policy work and communications jobs where clarity under scrutiny is the product. Graduate programs in international affairs, security studies and business are common next steps, and veterans' education benefits make them affordable.
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Related field: information warfare — signals collection perspective. Source occupation: Navy CTR.
This is the third installment of 'Information Warfare,' a series about ratings in the IW community and the vital role each rating plays. In this video you will learn more about what it means to be a Navy Cryptologic Technician Collection (CTR) Sailor. You will also learn a little about the training Sailors will receive at Information Warfare Training Command Corry Station. CTRs are the Navy’s experts analyzing, reporting and exploiting communication signals to determine threats to national security. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lindsay Lair) Graphics templates and music credits used with permission under limited license.
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$77,814–$144,392
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Collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence for naval operations. Brief commanders on threat assessments and operational intelligence.
Intelligence Officers turn collected information into assessments commanders actually use, and the work happens in briefing rooms, watch floors and secure spaces. Afloat you brief the captain and the air wing, manage the intelligence team and keep the picture current as an operation develops. Ashore you might support a staff, a special operations unit, a program office or a joint command, usually on a steadier schedule. Watch rotations, long nights before a major operation and the standing deadline of the morning brief define the rhythm. Sea tours send you on deployment for months, while shore tours are where much of this career actually happens.
You learn to collect, evaluate and fuse information from many sources into a judgment you will defend with your name attached. Briefing becomes a genuine skill, including the discipline of separating what you know from what you assess and what you are guessing. Targeting, order of battle analysis and geospatial tools give you a technical vocabulary that civilian analysts already share. A bachelor's degree with a commission from the Naval Academy, NROTC or Officer Candidate School is required, and writing ability matters more here than in most designators. Managing analysts teaches task assignment, quality control and the counseling side of leading educated people.
A clearance held continuously across a career is the most portable thing you carry out of this job. Cleared analytic work with federal agencies and defense contractors recruits heavily from this community, and the compensation is solid. Corporate roles in threat intelligence, geopolitical risk, due diligence and competitive intelligence use the same analytic tradecraft under different names. The briefing and writing ability also moves into consulting, policy work and communications jobs where clarity under scrutiny is the product. Graduate programs in international affairs, security studies and business are common next steps, and veterans' education benefits make them affordable.
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.
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Advertised — Navy, as of 2026-09-28Deployment likelihood: Moderate*
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