MOS Description: The Defensive Cyberspace Weapons Officer is a subject matter expert (SME) in Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO) with advanced and mastery knowledge of defensive cyber weapons systems and platforms and their employment. They serve as master defensive operators, technical directors, top-level representatives, special staff officers, and principal technical advisors to selected headquarters and staffs. 1720s coordinate and synchronize all defensive cyberspace missions and related activities with representatives of other information-related capabilities in peer, higher, and adjacent staff organizations and advise commands conducting, supporting, or assisting in providing critical input and analysis in the development, review, and update of OPLANS, CONPLANS, cyberspace operations annexes to operations, operational orders, training, exercises, and letters of instruction. In doing such, Defensive Cyberspace Weapons Officers improve the commander's decision-making during planning and execution by integrating DCO capabilities into the development of problem framing and desired end states by identifying friendly and enemy cyber vulnerabilities, challenging assumptions about cyberspace, offering alternative perspectives, and aiding in the development of best courses of action at the tactical and operational levels. Most notably, 1720s utilize knowledge and experience in order to outmaneuver adversaries in cyberspace, defend operational missions and associated key terrain in cyberspace, and employ effects to ensure friendly freedom of movement in and through cyberspace to leverage capabilities, maximize effects, and optimize combat effectiveness in operational domains and across warfighting functions.
Assigned to types of units: MARFORCYBER, DCO/IDM CO, MIG, MFP, MFE/A, and a variety of other units.
Training Requirements: Must complete the Cyber Operations Planning Course (COPC) (A09BN72)