Restricted line officer

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Restricted Line Officers in the United States Navy and Navy Reserve are line officers who are not eligible for
Command at Sea. There are many different types and communities, including Engineering Duty Officers,
Aerospace Engineering Duty Officers, Aerospace Maintenance Duty Officers, Naval Intelligence Officers,
Cryptologic Warfare Officers, Information Operations Officers, Foreign Area Officers, Public Affairs Officers,
Naval Oceanographers, Information Professionals, and Human Resources.

Contents
1 Engineering Duty Officers
2 Aerospace Engineering Duty Officers
3 Aerospace Maintenance Duty Officers
4 Naval Intelligence
5 Cryptologic Warfare
6 Foreign Area Officers
7 Public Affairs Officers
7.1 Media Operations
7.2 Internal Communications
7.3 Community relations
8 Naval Oceanographers
9 Information Professionals
10 Human Resources
11 See also
12 References

Engineering Duty Officers

EDOs apply technical expertise, practical engineering judgment, and business acumen to the research,
development, design, acquisition, construction, life cycle maintenance, modernization, and disposal of ships
and submarines and their associated warfare support systems. EDOs work in Fleet Maintenance & Industrial
Management (50%), Acquisition (20%), and Systems Engineering (30%).

Aerospace Engineering Duty Officers

AEDOs provide professional management and technical direction in the entire air weapon system acquisition
process from design to production and later product improvements of Naval aircraft, spacecraft, and weapons.
Over one-third of AEDO billets are flying billets. AEDOs test and evaluate new aircraft, weapons systems, and
weapons in various stages of development. Throughout a career, the AEDO will have billets primarily in
NAVAIR in: (1) operational support activities; (2) headquarters; (3) research, development, test, and evaluation;
and (4) manufacturing and production. All active duty AEDOs and most Navy Reserve AEDOs are accessed
from the Unrestricted Line and have previously qualified and been designated as Naval Aviators or Naval
Flight Officers.

Aerospace Maintenance Duty Officers

AMDOs provide full-time direction in the development, establishment, and implementation of maintenance and
material management policies and procedures for the support of naval aircraft, airborne weapons, attendant
systems and related support equipment. The community includes approximately 500 officers. In addition to
working in fleet maintenance organizations throughout the fleet, AMDOs are very much involved in all aspects
of material acquisition and support as top-level Program Managers in NAVAIR and as Commanding Officers of
the Naval Aviation Depots. AMDOs and AEDOs are combined into a new, single competitive category at the
Captain level.

Naval Intelligence
Naval Intelligence provides tactical, operational and strategic intelligence support to U.S. naval forces, joint
services, multi-national forces, and executive level decision-makers. Naval Intelligence Officers have a wide
variety of technical and non-technical academic backgrounds, including political science, modern history,
physical and natural sciences, and the liberal arts (which include languages and linguistics). There are
approximately 1,350 Naval Intelligence Officers.

Cryptologic Warfare
Formerly known as Naval Information Warfare Officers, there are over 800 Navy Cryptologic Warfare officers,
who perform Naval Information Operations functions as directed by the Chief of Naval Operations afloat and
ashore, and National Signals Intelligence tasks assigned by the Director, National Security Agency at NSA
facilities ashore. These functions include: -Information Operations (IO, composed of Electronic Warfare-EW,
Operational Security-OPSEC, Military Deception-MILDEC, Computer Network Operations-CNO, and
Psychological Operations-PSYOP) support on board ships, submarines and aircraft and ashore -Signals
Intelligence/EW tasks assigned under CNO authority (generally afloat) and DIRNSA (ashore) -Information
Operations to maximize friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum and to minimize adversary IO efforts

Foreign Area Officers

The Navy Foreign Area Officer (FAO) Community is a stand-alone Restricted Line Community offering world-
wide assignment opportunities to qualified Naval Officers.

Naval Officers selected for FAO are assigned a region of specialization, provided language and graduate
education on an as-required basis, and detailed to FAO-coded billets in accordance with the Navy FAO career
path.

Navy FAOs maintain a broad range of military skills and experiences: knowledge of political-military affairs;
familiarity with the political, cultural, social, economic, and geographic factors of the countries and regions in
which they are stationed; and proficiency in one or more of the dominant languages in their regions of
expertise.

Navy FAOs can expect to serve on staffs of Fleets, Combatant Commands, Defense Agencies, and DoD
military-diplomatic offices at U.S. Embassies. They provide expertise in planning and executing operations,
provide liaison with foreign militaries operating in coalitions with U.S. forces, conduct political-military
activities, and execute military-diplomatic missions.[1]

Public Affairs Officers

The Public Affairs community is responsible for "Telling the Navy Story." Navy Public Affairs comprises three
functional areas:

Media Operations

PAOs work with media outlets to communicate with the American public.

Internal Communications
PAOs produce publications, briefings and video news programs to communicate with Sailors, their families,
reservists, retirees and civilian employees.

Community relations

PAOs reach out to the American public through "hands-on" programs like public tours, Congressional and VIP
visits and embarks, speaking engagements, open houses and special events.

PAOs serve at sea, ashore, and in joint assignments, and are always deployed where Navy news is being made.
All active duty PAOs join the community through lateral transfer from the Unrestricted Line while the Navy
Reserve has a limited number of direct annual accessions into the PAO designator through a Direct
Commission Officer (DCO) program. Today there are about 226 officers in this community, the smallest in the
Restricted Line.

Naval Oceanographers
The Naval Oceanography community collects, analyzes, and then distributes data about the ocean and the
atmosphere to Navy forces operating all over the world. Naval oceanographers are first on the scene - either
literally in survey ships, or figuratively through computer prediction programs - in any military operation.
There are approximately 430 Oceanography officers. They assist the war fighter in taking tactical advantage of
the environment. They support the operational fleet from a variety of platforms. This can range from local area
weather forecasting in support of aircraft carrier operations to optimizing the use of a sonar system in
accordance with prevailing underwater sound conditions.

Information Professionals
The Information Professional Community is responsible for offensive and defensive Navy information
operations to support requirements of theatre and operational commanders and national policy makers. They
provide expertise in information, command and control, and space systems through the planning, acquisition,
operation, maintenance, and security of systems that support Navy operational and business processes.
Presently, there are billets for 535 officers.

Human Resources
The Human Resources community plans, programs, and executes life-cycle management of the navys most
important resource its people. The primary focus will be on the human resources system: the combined
elements of manpower, personnel, training, and recruiting. There are billets for 570 officers in this community,
under the direction of the Chief of Naval Personnel.

See also
List of Naval Officer Designators

References
1. http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/officer/Detailing/IDC_FAO/FAO/Pages/default.aspx

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