The Intelligence Career Field encompasses functions involved in collecting, producing, and distributing data that have strategic, tactical, or technical value from an intelligence viewpoint.  This field includes functions necessary to maintain information security and language translation and interpretation. 

Excluded from this career field are functions of collecting, collating, interpreting, and distributing general information of primary concern to other career fields.  These functions are contained in the specific career field concerned.

Individuals in the Weather career field collect, analyze, predict, tailor, and integrate weather and space environmental information, including forecasts of conditions, to provide decision-quality information on environmental impacts to Air Force, Army, Joint and Coalition operations.

They operate meteorological equipment and employ computer workstations to interrogate current and forecast atmospheric and space weather conditions based on observations, terrestrial and space sensing instruments, weather radars, data and imagery from geostationary and polar orbiting satellites, and forecast data provided by military, national, and international weather centers.

Air Force weather personnel are attached or assigned to Air Force, Army, Joint, or coalition conventional and special operations at garrison and expeditionary locations worldwide. Qualified volunteers may perform airborne and special operations duty in this career field. Weather is a Battlefield Airman (BA) career field according to AFPD 10-35, Battlefield Airmen.

The Manned Aerospace Maintenance Career Field includes:  Installing, maintaining, calibrating, and repairing avionics photographic and sensor equipment, integrated avionics equipment, and selected conventional avionics equipment; avionics guidance and control systems; communication and navigation systems; airborne communications, early warning radar, and electronic warfare equipment; and avionics support equipment.

Installing, removing, maintaining, and repairing aircrew egress, fuel, and pneudraulic systems including in-flight refueling systems; and maintaining aerospace ground equipment used in direct support of aircraft weapon systems.

The Fuels Career Field encompasses operating, maintaining and managing petroleum fuel systems and activities including the entire spectrum of requisitioning, accounting, receiving, storing, dispensing, and testing of aviation and ground fuels, cryogenics, missile propellants and alternative fuels such as compressed natural gas.

Mobile refueling vehicles or equipment along with installed mechanical fuel systems are used to receive or distribute aviation and ground fuels. All operations encompass environmental protection and energy conservation practices. Computer systems are used throughout the fuels career field.

The Logistics Plans Career Field encompasses managing, administering, and operating logistics plans systems and activities.

Included in this field are formulating, developing, evaluating, and monitoring all aspects of logistics plans systems such as plans, policies, and programs pertaining to executing partial or total Air Force or joint service mission, and using the guidance and procedures for interpreting and implementing current, intermediate, and long range plans, policies, and programs.

The Missile and Space Systems Maintenance Career Field encompasses the skills, functions, and techniques used to acquire, activate, assemble, transport, install, and maintain missiles and subsystems; acquire, activate, and supervise assembly, transportation, maintenance, inspection, modification, and launch processing of spacelift boosters, satellites, and subsystems.

Launch, control, track, and recover unmanned air vehicles (UAV) and related equipment; assemble, operate, fabricate, install, test, and troubleshoot specialized research and development (R&D) systems and subsystems; acquire, activate, inspect, maintain, repair, calibrate, modify, and manage these actions on related missile, spacelift booster, satellite, UAV, and R&D facilities, support systems, test equipment, and subsystems.

The Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory Career Field provides maintenance, modification, repair, calibration, and certification for test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment. It also implements methods and procedures for managing the US Air Force Metrology and Calibration (AFMETCAL) Program as established and directed by AFI 21-113, Air Force Metrology & Calibration (AFMETCAL) Program.

The AFMETCAL Program is a composite of measurement standards and equipment, users, calibration data, and integrated planning to provide a disciplined US Air Force program to ensure reliability, accuracy, and traceability of systems, subsystems, and equipment.

The Maintenance Management Systems Career Field includes planning and scheduling aircraft, missiles, and associated equipment; operating and maintaining the management information system; and collecting, analyzing, and presenting maintenance data in maintenance organizations. Such organizations include aircraft, missile, avionics, communications-electronics, and munitions maintenance.

The Materiel Management Field encompasses managing, controlling, and operating materiel management systems associated with specified Classes of Supply.

This field includes functions of designing, developing, analyzing, and operating materiel management systems; requirements determination and computation; operating and managing materiel storage warehouses; equipment review and validation; records maintenance; inventory and distribution control; inspection and identification of property; and assisting commanders in maintaining accountability of assigned readiness spares and equipment.

Excluded from this field are managing Defense Reutilization and Marketing Offices, and operation and maintenance of organizational, tool cribs, equipment custodial responsibilities, and other duties not related solely to providing materiel management capability.