NSA Summer Internships in Mathematics
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Director’s Summer Program (DSP)/Cryptanalysis and Signals Analysis Summer Program (CASA SP)
Director’s Summer Program (DSP)
The Director’s Summer Program (DSP) is a highly competitive program that seeks to reach the nation’s most outstanding undergraduate mathematics majors. Each summer, we invite exceptional undergraduate students to put their skills to the test solving problems in mathematics, cryptology and communications technology in support of the national security mission. These problems often involve applications of abstract algebra, geometry, number theory, analysis, probability, statistics, combinatorics, graph theory, algorithms, and computer science. State of the art computing resources are available to all students. Computational algebra packages, including Mathematics, MATLAB, Magma and MAPLE are available, in addition to a variety of statistics packages.
Cryptanalysis and Signals Analysis Summer Program (CASASP)
The Cryptanalysis and Signals Analysis Summer Program (CASASP) gives undergraduate mathematicians and computer scientists a chance to contribute to mission-essential technical operations at the NSA. Our mission is to transform collected data into a format analysts can readily consume for intelligence purposes by analyzing signals and protocals, and overcoming security measures. Each summer we invite twelve students to learn, use and further NSA’s tradecraft as they work on operational problems of national importance. If you possess imagination, initiative and intellectual curiosity, apply for the CASASP.
Signals Intelligence Collection Program (SICP)
Would you like to spend your summer working on technical projects and/or in operational collection-related assignments with access to foreign intelligence data critical to the security of our country? Does the prospect of applying your computer, technical, analytic, social science, communication, problem solving, and/or critical thinking skills to the National Security Agency’s Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) mission pique your interest? Will you be a college Freshman, Sophomore or Junior at the beginning of the Fall 2017 semester? If you answered “Yes” to these questions, you could be one of the next Signals Intelligence Collection Program (SICP) summer interns to join the NSA team in the summer of 2018. As a SICP intern, you will work to directly support the United States Intelligence Community, national-level customers and our armed forces operating around the globe.
Cyber Summer Program (CSP)
The Cyber Summer Program (CSP) is the National Security Agency's (NSA) premier outreach effort to the very best undergraduate and graduate computer science, engineering, mathematics, network security and information assurance students in the country. Each summer we invite up to 24 exceptional students to participate in a 12-week program where they work together, and in teams, directly with NSA technical professionals on mission-critical cyber-related problems.
Summer Intern Program for Information Assurance (SIPIA)
The Summer Intern Program for Information Assurance (SIPIA) is a 12-week summer program meant to help accelerate your career in the field of Information Assurance (IA) by working for NSA. SIPIA hosts high potential students pursuing Bachelor's (between junior and senior year), Master's or Ph.D. technical degrees (listed below) that can contribute to the IA mission. Interns will be involved in projects that enable the cyber mission force through current analysis, expertise, training and tools. Interns will be involved in IA projects, including protecting and defending the nation's information systems networks and outmaneuvering cyber adversaries. To participate in this program, students must return to school for at least one semester following the internship.
Graduate Mathematics Program (GMP)
The Graduate Mathematics Program (GMP) is a summer program for students currently enrolled in a graduate program. The GMP provides an opportunity for exceptional mathematics and statistics graduate students to work directly with NSA Mathematicians and Statisticians on mission-critical problems and experience the excitement of the NSA technical community first-hand. The students participating in this program work on a wide range of problems involving mathematics, statistics, data analysis, cryptology and communications technology. Students document their work in technical papers which are internally published at the Agency. State of the art computing resources are available to GMP participants. Computational software packages such as Mathematica, MATLAB, Magma, MAPLE and S-PLUS are also available.
Summer Program for Operations Research Technology (SPORT)
Spend your summer at NSA further developing your technical skills. As an Intern Analyst in the Enterprise Operations Research Division at NSA, you will work side-by-side with analysts in mission organizations to apply state-of-the-art scientific and quantitative methods, which employ applied mathematics and data science techniques, to develop innovative solutions to current agency, operational "hard" problems and to unconventional problems exclusive to the Intelligence Community.
Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART)
Students, including current DoD employees seeking advanced degrees, work in a full-time, paid summer internship. Participants must be pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematical (STEM) fields of study. Benefits include full tuition and fees, stipend and guaranteed employment upon graduation. Further information is available, please visit the SMART website.