Five career development programs with military and civilian organizations will be available to select categories of military intelligence officers in fiscal 2016.
Officers who complete one of the demanding courses, and the common core component of Intermediate Level Education, will receive ILE Advanced Operations Course equivalency, and will be credited with Military Education Level 4, the code for command and staff college attendance.
Officers incur an active-duty service obligation of three days for every day they participate in one of these programs. Service obligations are capped at six years.
Selections for these programs will be made by a board that meets July 14-16 at Human Resources Command, Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Applications consisting of a DA Form 4187 (Request for Personnel Action) signed by the first colonel in an officer's chain of command, must be received at HRC's Military Intelligence officer career management branch by June 22. Selection results will be announced in mid-August.
Programs available for the coming school year are:
Junior Officer Cryptologic Career Program is open to year group 2008 "series-35" military intelligence officers who have completed the Captains Career Course and who have an outstanding record of performance in key developmental positions for captains.
Officers selected for this program will be assigned to the National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland, for a three-year developmental regimen that will include six-month operational tours with at least four NSA work centers and 1,300 hours of formal instruction at the National Cryptologic School.
Officers who complete the course will receive an initial utilization tour of 12 to 24 months, and will incur a six-year active-duty service obligation.
Warrant Officer Cryptologic Career Program is open to series-352 military intelligence CW2s and CW3s who have not attended the Warrant Officer Advanced Course, and who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and performance as a technical subject matter expert in signals intelligence.
Officers will be assigned to NSA for a three-year tour a three-year that will include six-month operational tours with NSA work centers and 800 hours of formal instruction at the National Cryptologic School.
Officers who complete the course will receive an initial utilization tour of 12 to 24 months, and will incur a six-year active-duty service obligation.
Army Intelligence Development Program includes education opportunities in the traditional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance track at Fort Meade, and a two-year cyber track, also at Meade.
Graduates of the ISR track will incur a three-year service obligation, and grads of the cyber track
Applicants for these programs must be graduates of the Captains Career Course, and be a member of year group 2006 for the ISR track, and year group 2007 for the cyber track.
Active Guard and Reserve officers can apply for the ISR track, provided they can serve three years before reaching their mandatory retirement date.
AGR applicants must be in the rank of major, or be a captain with an O-3 date of rank no earlier than Aug. 31, 2011.
National Intelligence University: A master's degree program in strategic intelligence or science and technology intelligence is available to series-35 captains in year group 2006, and majors who do not have a master's degree.
Also eligible are series-352 Regular Army warrant officers with at least four, but no more than 12, years of active warrant service.
Non-military intelligence officers who are interested in attending the National Intelligence University should contact their assignment officer for eligibility criteria and application procedures.
Attendance at the university, located at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling, D.C., is contingent upon selection and nomination by the MI career branch, and subsequent selection by the NIU admissions office. Upon completion of the course, officers will incur a three-year active-duty service obligation.
National Security Agency/Central Security Service Director's Fellowship Program is a one-year assignment/fellowship opportunity beginning in July 2016 for one 35-series major or lieutenant colonel in area of concentration 35G (signals intelligence and electronic warfare) to work with senior decision makers at NSA headquarters. Participants incur a three-year service obligation.
Advanced Civil Schooling: In addition to the above listed programs, the Army provides fully funded 18-month graduate school opportunities for 10 military intelligence officers who begin studies in the fall semester of 2016.
For eligibility and application criteria, officers should contact their HRC career manager.
