AFOSI Special Agent case studies

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The Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Special Agent Selection Process is the hiring pipeline through which the U.S. Air Force recruits civilian and military special agents for its federal law enforcement and counterintelligence mission. The AFOSI Special Agent case studies are 5 cases and about 3,610 words.

The Smudged Hash and the Spouse's SSD

During a search of an off-base apartment rented by a junior enlisted member, AFOSI agents seize a government laptop, a personal external SSD, and a smartphone. The laptop is powered on and displaying a login screen.

754 words, about 4 min 2

The Invoices That Do Not Match the Badge Logs

A contracting officer at a stateside base refers a services contractor after a finance analyst notices that 18 monthly invoices bill 6,400 labor hours, while base access logs show only 2,100 hours. The $1.2 million task order covers maintenance training and requires government acceptance by the contracting officer's technical representative (COTR).

717 words, about 4 min 3

Late Nights, Foreign Contacts, and 62 Printed Pages

A technical sergeant with TS/SCI eligibility works in a test wing and reports 11 foreign national contacts on social media, including three he met in person during a recent conference in Southeast Asia. He did not report the contacts as required.

734 words, about 4 min 4

Fourteen Beacons and a Deadline at 07:00

At 02:14, network monitoring detects 14 Windows workstations on a base NIPRNet enclave beaconing to the same external IP address every 30 seconds. The endpoint tool flags a scheduled task that launches an encoded PowerShell command.

705 words, about 4 min 5

The Source Who Wants a Wire and Immunity

A confidential source, a 24-year-old airman with a prior Article 15 for larceny, tells an AFOSI agent that a dorm neighbor is selling THC vape cartridges. The source says the neighbor asked him to help sell and that he has already been in the room during two sales.

700 words, about 4 min