DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

At NSA, career development begins on day one and continues throughout your career. We offer the following entry-level programs to help employees enhance their skills, improve their understanding of a specific discipline and even cross-train into a new career field. Most programs are three years long with rotational tours.

CNODP is for highly skilled technical professionals with a background in low level development, computer security, or network security who are interested in developing skills in network, hardware, and software protection and exploitation. Consisting of three independent programs, CNODP's goal is to produce technical Computer Network Operations (CNO) leaders in the areas of CNO defense, exploitation and attack. Program graduates are in high demand throughout the agency.

Diverse academic backgrounds are key to NSA's continued cryptanalytic success. As part of the CADP, all incoming cryptanalysts attend formal classes, receive technical training from experienced cryptanalysts and rotate to various job assignments throughout NSA. No particular major is required; rather, evidence of technical skills and abilities is preferred.

A firm grasp of mathematics and computer science/engineering skills are combined in the C2DP to address NSA's cryptanalytic and computer network challenges. The C2DP provides classroom and on-the-job training in cryptanalysis, computer network operations, software engineering and high performance computing.

The increased complexity of supporting cyber warfare requires world-class researches and developers. CDP builds the cadre of computer scientists NSA needs to address work across computer science disciplines, including computer network operations, architecture and systems, knowledge discovery, big data processing and information technology infrastructure.