The National Security Agency's Intelligence Analysis (IA) Summer Program offers the opportunity for training in a multi-faceted cryptologic discipline. The IA Summer Program, an intensive 12-week program, gives rising college seniors the opportunity to build knowledge and skills in the intelligence analysis field. Training is combined with an apprenticeship to senior NSA analysts on vital strategic intelligence targets. The projects and the accompanying analysis become part of NSA's effort to provide a complete SIGINT picture to U.S. policy makers, military commanders, and other Intelligence Community (IC) members and partners.
Specific skills gained include:
- Understanding modern digital communications
- Analyzing network structure
- Developing background on intelligence topics
- Using advanced analytic tools in multiple operating system environments
- Executing advanced query techniques within extensive classified and unclassified databases
- Understanding the structure and processes of NSA and the U.S. IC
- Conducting independent research and coordinating results with analysts in other disciplines across NSA's intelligence production organizations
- Preparing and presenting SIGINT findings to help satisfy customer requirements.
Qualifications
Pay, Benefits, & Work Schedule
Application Deadline
Applications for the 2016 program are accepted 15 May 2015 - 15 October 2015.
Salary
Students are paid a competitive salary commensurate with their education level.
Benefits
- Receive annual leave, sick leave and paid federal holidays.
- Participation in agency-wide extracurricular programs.
- Students may be eligible for travel expenses.
- Subsidized housing accommodations are available upon request if school is located in excess of 75 miles from NSA main HQs campus.
To Apply:
Visit www.nsa.gov/careers.
Questions?
Email summer_interns@nsa.gov. More details are available in UMBCworks.
Specific skills gained include:
- Understanding modern digital communications
- Analyzing network structure
- Developing background on intelligence topics
- Using advanced analytic tools in multiple operating system environments
- Executing advanced query techniques within extensive classified and unclassified databases
- Understanding the structure and processes of NSA and the U.S. IC
- Conducting independent research and coordinating results with analysts in other disciplines across NSA's intelligence production organizations
- Preparing and presenting SIGINT findings to help satisfy customer requirements.
Qualifications
- Must be a U.S. citizen
- Must be eligible to be granted a security clearance
- Must be a full-time student in an undergraduate or graduate program
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 desired
- Must be available for the entire 12-week program
- Must be available for an operational interview and other applicable processing between May 2015 and March 2016
- Major studies areas of consideration:
- International Affairs/Politics/Relations
- Intelligence/Security Studies
- Regional Studies
- Economics
- Decision/Information/Data Science
- Note: Minors/Certificate programs or multiple courses in computer science, networking, technology, or telecommunications areas are highly sought.
Pay, Benefits, & Work Schedule
Application Deadline
Applications for the 2016 program are accepted 15 May 2015 - 15 October 2015.
Salary
Students are paid a competitive salary commensurate with their education level.
Benefits
- Receive annual leave, sick leave and paid federal holidays.
- Participation in agency-wide extracurricular programs.
- Students may be eligible for travel expenses.
- Subsidized housing accommodations are available upon request if school is located in excess of 75 miles from NSA main HQs campus.
To Apply:
Visit www.nsa.gov/careers.
Questions?
Email summer_interns@nsa.gov. More details are available in UMBCworks.
