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Command and Control Center Specialists

Operate and monitor communications, detection, and weapons systems essential for controlling air, ground, and naval operations. Duties include maintaining and relaying critical communications between air, naval, and ground forces; implementing emergency plans for natural and wartime disasters; relaying command center information to high-level military and government decisionmakers; monitoring surveillance and detection systems, such as air defense; interpreting and evaluating tactical situations and making recommendations to superiors; and operating weapons targeting, firing, and launch computer systems.

Median salary

$55,000

Typical range

$34k – $99k

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Education

Typical entry: Associate degree

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  1. Junior Command and Control Center Specialists

    Entry / Junior

    $34,100

    ~2 yrs to advance

  2. Command and Control Center Specialists

    Established

    $55,000

    ~3 yrs to advance

  3. Senior Command and Control Center Specialists

    Senior

    $77,000

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