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(U//FOUO) New Registration Method for NETW and NETO Classes
FROM: Deborah Maklowski
NSA/CSS Deputy Senior Intelligence Authority
Run Date: 06/02/2006
(U//FOUO) As many of you may know, most all of NSA's available training on data network
operations and exploitation is provided under contract with an outside vendor. This includes
nearly all the NETW and NETO courses. For analysts in SID, in the SID elements at the
Cryptologic Centers, and now in NTOC*, this contract is funded by SID/Analysis and Production
(A&P).
(U//FOUO) In our desire to make sure that these A&P training dollars were spent wisely -- i.e.,
making sure that the students in the courses were analysts (of whatever kind) with a
demonstrable need for this kind of training -- A&P, SID, and the National Cryptologic School had
jointly devised a registration methodology that looked good on paper but, as it turned out, was
confusing and didn't work too well in practice. For those of you who, over the course of the last
year or so, experienced problems and frustration with this registration process, please accept
our apologies. We have heard your complaints and have scrapped that method.
(U//FOUO) In the future -- which starts pretty much right now -- SID's SIGINT Mission Interface
for Education and Training (S01SMI/E&T) will send out calls each month for analysts
interested in signing up for NETW and NETO classes scheduled 6 weeks out. Analysts
will have two weeks to provide the registration data requested (including a justification for the
training) to A&P, which will verify analytic need and send a prioritized list of students for each
class to ADET.
(U//FOUO) ADET will register the students in the Enterprise Learning Management (ELM)
system, creating a wait list if necessary, and ELM will manage the course from that point. We
believe this will greatly reduce the number of empty seats in each class and will solve the
problem that led to classes being cancelled despite the existence of a wait list.
(U) The first of these calls, for classes scheduled to run in July 2006, should go out very shortly,
so keep an eye on your email!
*(U) Note:
NTOC = National Threat Operations Center
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without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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