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(U//FOUO) Coming Soon: A Call for Employees to Create or Update
Profiles in the DANCEHALL Mission Readiness Database
FROM:
Dancehall Team Lead (S01)
Run Date: 09/30/2005
(U//FOUO) DANCEHALL database has two separate functions: 1) to document employee skills
and mission data and 2) to allow employees to see and apply for job vacancies
(U//FOUO) In October, all employees in the following organizations...
S2 (SID/Analysis and Production)
S17 (SID/Strategic Intelligence Issues)
S01 (SID/Integrated Planning)
all of the Cryptologic Centers (formerly known as RSOCs)
...will be asked to create or update their profile in the DANCEHALL database. Specific
information and guidance will be forthcoming soon on this effort, but for now, here's an
explanation of what DANCEHALL is all about:
(U//FOUO) NSA has thousands of analysts engaged in the pursuit of Signals Intelligence and
Information Assurance missions. How do we document these activities and ensure that analysts
are deployed against missions in a way that is consistent with national priorities and maximizes
limited resources? One mechanism is DANCEHALL, the multifaceted project that helps SID
organizations to account for all civilian and military personnel performing cryptologic missions
throughout the global enterprise. Still developing, DANCEHALL is a relational database by which
individuals 1) document their skills and mission data and 2) query and/or apply for job
vacancies. It also allows managers to optimize staffing as missions and priorities change, identify
tools and training that may be needed, and understand current analytic resource deployments.
(U//FOUO) DANCEHALL provides these capabilities in two ways. The first is through the analyst
profile tool that allows you to document in the DANCEHALL database your cryptologic
skills and knowledge, and the missions that you are working. Once entered, your
individual profile is saved and must be updated whenever you change jobs, assume a new
mission, acquire a new skill, or feel you have significantly increased your proficiency in one of
these areas.
(U//FOUO) The data in the DANCEHALL database help to inform internal mission management
decisions as well as respond to external queries from Congress and the Intelligence Community
on mission readiness and resource allocation. Because the data is used in this way, and to make
sure that training needs and resource gaps are correctly identified, it is essential that you
document your profile accurately. Please note that you will not be subjected to an
involuntary directed assignment solely on the basis of the skills information provided.
(U//FOUO) One of the most influential activities that DANCEHALL supports is the DDNI/A*
Analytic Resource Catalog (ARC), an Intelligence Community (IC) database of analysts, their
missions, skills, knowledge, and abilities. Analysts throughout the IC are required to update
their individual profiles every six months and this data is forwarded to the ARC. This semiannual
mandatory event is scheduled to begin again on 1 October. NSA will forward data contained in
DANCEHALL to fulfill this requirement--stay tuned for further instructions.
(U//FOUO) Another (separate) feature provided by DANCEHALL is the capability to view and
apply for advertised positions. DANCEHALL is used by civilians and military, analysts and
managers, throughout SID and is the backbone database for the NSA/CSS Deployment Center.
Through the CVA application, you can scan the vacancies, market your skills, and volunteer
online for missions to which you can contribute. If you are looking for an exciting challenge,
and/or a rotational assignment, check out this link:
Deployment Services/CVA (or "go CVA")
...Or for general info about DANCEHALL, see:
DANCEHALL introduction (or "go Dancehall").
(U//FOUO) DANCEHALL depends on you. Please help us make DANCEHALL effective. Watch for
further information! You may reach us at
or e-mail: dl dancehallteam or
POC is
*(U) Note: DDNI/A = Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Anaysis
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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