Communications Systems Warfare

Community Overview: The Communications Systems Warfare Officer (CSWO) community is the premier warfighting cadre responsible for the Navy’s most critical weapon system: its global digital network.

As the Navy’s experts in Assured Command and Control (AC2), CSWOs build, defend, and operate the resilient, high-speed networks – encompassing voice, video, and data – that form the backbone of joint operations. From the depths of the ocean to space, CSWOs ensure that any sensor can seamlessly connect to any shooter, delivering the decisive information advantage required to win.

Creed: Connect the Fleet. Accelerate Decisions. Enable the Kill.

Vision: To be the undisputed masters of the Navy’s digital environment, guaranteeing the United States holds an unbreakable information advantage from seabed to space.

Mission: To design, operate, and defend the Navy's global communication networks, ensuring our leaders have the secure, real-time data required to act decisively in any environment.

Lateral Transfer

• Source Communities. Officers will be considered from any URL, IWL, Special Duty, or Staff communities, as well as qualified LDOs. LDOs must possess at least a baccalaureate degree. 682X LDOs are NOT ELIGIBLE for this board and are expected to redesignate in accordance with NAVADMIN 014/18. 629X LDOs are expected to redesignate in accordance with NAVADMIN 128/19.

• APC Requirement. Applicants without a Master’s degree must request to have an academic profile code (APC) calculated by the Naval Postgraduate School. Apply online and submit proof with the package. APC Website: http://www.nps.edu/Students/Prospective/index.html

• Degree requirements. Applicants must include their undergraduate transcript in their package. Major fields of study directly related to STEM are preferred but not required. Completion of calculus sequence (Calculus I and Calculus II) and calculus-based physics sequence with a C average or better is preferred but not required. Applicants with non-STEM majors can still be competitive - contact the CSWO OCM for clarification.

• Qualifications and current community screenings. URL candidates must be warfare qualified, and it is preferred that they are positively screened in their current community (i.e.: DH-screened SWOs are preferred over those who did not satisfactorily screen). Contact the CSWO OCM for any clarifications or waiver requests
  
   

  (Please call if you do not receive a response within 2 weeks)

   Email for all OCS Waiver Questions  (ocsquestions@navy.mil)
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Contact Info
CSWO Community Manager
BUPERS 311-CSWO
(901)874-2846
DSN 882-2846
IWL Email 

CSWO Community Information

• Community Information Sheet

CSWO Program Authorization

• Program Authorization (PA-108D)

CSWO OCS Information

• OCS Information

• OCS CO, DIVO, and Interviewer Guidance

• OCS Recruiter Guidance

CSWO POCR Information

• POCR Information

• POCR Process and Requirements

CSWO Lateral Transfer Information

• Lateral Transfer Information

• Lateral Transfer Process and Requirements