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Telecommunications Specialist (Aviation)
Drug Enforcement Administration · Posted 15 days ago
On-site Fort Worth, TX $97K – $150K Apply by Sep 9, 2026 Telecommunications ENFJENFPENTPESFP MarketingOperations
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This position is located in the DEA, Operational Support Division, Aviation Division This position(s) primary purpose is to to serve as the technical expert in the areas of covert surveillance, tracking, and interception to assist Special Agents, personnel internal or external to the agency, and across the DEA world-wide with investigative operations by researching, modernizing, testing, evaluating and integrating the use of electronic communications aerial surveillance equipment.
What You'll Do
- →As a Telecommunications Specialist, your typical work assignments may include: Participating in sensitive covert activities requiring the installation and recovery of electronic devices.
- →Tracking and intercepting airborne surveillance to assist personnel with investigative operations by integrating the use of electronic communications equipment.
- →Designing and modifying large and diverse inventory of highly specialized state-of-the-art electronics used in surveillance and information gathering activities to support criminal investigations and prosecutions.
- →Participating in maintenance of covert and concealed surveillance equipment.
- →Analyzing networks, including radio frequency-based (e.g., cellular, radio, Wi-Fi) and internet protocol-based, to determine the best technological approach (i.e. electronic surveillance, communication, and interception) to use in support of an investigative operations.
Requirements
- ✓See the qualification section of this vacancy announcement for education requirements.
- ✓Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.
- ✓It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
- ✓For a list of accredited organizations recognized as specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials, visit: www.naces.org/members.php.
- ✓If you are claiming education as any part of your qualifications for this position, you must submit an official transcript, unofficial transcript, or a list including courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 5af6b824-f67c-48d2-95c9-0312c09fcd6a
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