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(U//FOUO) New A&P-NCS Sabbatical Program Unveiled
FROM: Carl L. Johnson and
Leonard T. Reinsfelder
Run Date: 10/03/2006
(U//FOUO) Sabbatical program will allow S2 experts to work at NCS for 9-12 months to assist
with training.
(U//FOUO) The SID Deputy Directorate for Analysis & Production (A&P, S2) and the National
Cryptologic School's Center for Cryptology (NCS, E9) are pleased to announce a new and
exciting professional development opportunity -- the A&P/NCS Sabbatical Program. This jointly
established and endorsed program is designed to increase and maintain the professional health
of the NSA/CSS analytic community by lending A&P's subject matter expertise to the NCS to
assist the School in meeting A&P's most critical training requirements for the civilian and military
analytic workforce, worldwide.
(U//FOUO) A&P subject-matter experts (SME) will have the opportunity to deploy to NCS/E9
for assignments of 9 to 12 months to help design, develop, refresh, and/or deliver
analytic training. Program participants located throughout the Extended Enterprise will be colocated with their respective Education and Training officer (ETO). SMEs must have a minimum
of three years' experience in the target or topic area identified by the NCS in its requirement. All
mid-level analysts (civilian grades 12,13, or 14; military E5, E6, or E7) are eligible to apply.
(U//FOUO) The A&P/NCS Sabbatical Program provides both professional development and career
advancement opportunities for mid-career analysts. SMEs offering their services and performing
well during their deployments will be helping to satisfy some of the highest priority training
requirements jointly identified by both SID and the Associate Directorate for Education and
Training (ADET) and will be considered to be fulfilling the Agency criteria for both continuous
professional growth and for the transfer of knowledge.
(U//FOUO) On our behalf, Analytic Resources (S201A) will manage the selection and deployment
of SMEs to the Sabbatical Program, and NCS/E9 will provide administrative support for A&P's
deployed SMEs. A process for the articulation and advertising of NCS/E9's requirements for SMEs
has yet to be developed, but you can expect a call for assistance to be out within a month.
Additional information on the Program is available in the Concept of Operations (CONOP) that
can be found on the Intelligence Analysis Skill Community web page . (Scroll down to "Career
Development.")
(U//FOUO) We understand how difficult it is for many of our most talented and profoundly
knowledgeable SMEs to contemplate leaving mission for perhaps as much as a year, but at the
same time we also know that this is the only solution that will fill our significant training gaps
and place the responsibility for training back where it belongs, in ADET. ADET cannot succeed
without A&P, and your assistance is critical to A&P's long-term success. Therefore we both
strongly encourage you to be on the lookout for the follow-on announcements and to consider
this opportunity very seriously: you will be helping to deliver our future.
Leonard T. Reinsfelder,
Carl L. Johnson,
Dean/Chief, Center for Cryptology (E9),
SID/Deputy Director for Analysis & Production
Associate Director for Education and Training
(S2)
(ADET)
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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