Warrants and limited duty officers in the Information Dominance Corps are getting new designators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 4-digit codes define each community\u00a0that can be managed and the administrative change is\u00a0meant to reconfigure the IDC’s chief warrants and LDOs into one such branch.\u00a0into a\u00a0the IDC\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Six-years into life as a war fighting community, the Information Dominance Corps is realigning it’s warrant and limited duty officer communities to better fit into it’s total officer corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Ultimately this is a part of deliberate planning that has been going on for many years,” said Cmdr. CDR <\/span>James Scarcelli, officer community manager for the information dominance and intelligence officer communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We realigned the officer communities in 2010, a year after the Information Dominance Corps was formally established, this effectively brings the LDO and CWO communities and designators in line [with the] IDC restricted line officer corps.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In essence, it\u2019s a simple name change for all each of <\/span>the 327 officers in four LDO designators and the 297 chief warrants in four CWO designators. along with the additional four CWO designators and the 297 officers in those.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s no change in end strength for either community, nor is there any shuffling of job responsibilities between the <\/span>any of the designators, officials say. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n “No actions are required on the part of the officers. The designator change will be automatic \u2014 they’ll just wake up one day and their designators will have changed,” said Capt.\u00a0Bill Johnson, the LDO\/CWO officer community manger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That day, he said, is expected to happen by mid-December at the latest, and officers will see the change reflected in their records online once it\u2019s done<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, <\/span>There will be no impact on opportunity for the approximately 25,000 enlisted sailors in the eight enlisted ratings that feed into these eight officer <\/span>designators.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n For those applying for this year, the board meets in January and here, too, no action is required by the sailor;\u00a0they\u2019ll automatically be up for selection in the same specialty under the new designator number<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, aerographer\u2019s mates who have already applied to be in the LDO\u00a0646X, meteorology and oceanography, LDO<\/span>\u00a0designator will simply become part of the 680X designator if selected.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n “No change to what we are assessing,” Johnson said. When asked what he expected accessions to be like, he said only that it would be “inappropriate” to discuss what this year\u2019s quotas would be as they\u2019d not been approved\u00a0yet \u2014 but that sailors can expect slots in line with those chosen numbers picked the during <\/span>the last few cycles. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s how<\/span> The new designators: will shake out:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n LDO\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 680X \u00a0 Meteorology\/Oceanography replaces 646X CWO\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 781X \u00a0Information Warfare Technician replaces 744X Warrants and limited duty officers in the Information Dominance Corps are getting new designators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":69810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[7,12,65],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3087],"class_list":["post-36047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-transition","category-news","category-your-navy"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"JDS5R5HEXVD4TEDOMX3S72ZZAI","arc_canonical_url":"\/education-transition\/jobs\/2015\/11\/02\/mustang-officers-in-info-dominance-corps-to-get-new-designators\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n