National Cryptologic School

The National Cryptologic School (NCS) is a school within the National Security Agency that provides training to members of the Agency.

The National Cryptologic School is a Cryptologic Training School within the National Security Agency (NSA). It is responsible for designing, developing, and delivering curriculum in Cryptology, Information Assurance, Language, and Leadership.

It was opened on November 1, 1965, and is now housed on multiple campuses, including the NSA's Friendship Annex facility in Linthicum, Maryland.^[1][2]

NCS courses are provided to the civilian and military population of the NSA, as well as the Intelligence Community, the military services, and the Central Security Service (CSS). Many of the courses are accredited by the American Council on Education and the Council on Occupational Education, and are eligible for transfer credits at a variety of educational institutions.

Training is delivered via computer-based methods, as well as in the traditional classroom setting. Employees have access to literally thousands of web-based training courses developed by NSA, as well as those offered by a variety of vendors and agencies throughout the Intelligence Community.

See also

• Dundee Society
• Zendian problem
• Government Code and Cypher School

References

External links

• Svrluga, Susan (November 9, 2015). "The NSA school: How the intelligence community gets smarter, secretly". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 11, 2015. 

National Security Agency
Locations	Alaskan Mission Operations Center Colorado Cryptologic Center Consolidated Intelligence Center CSSG Dorsey Road European Cryptologic Center European Technical Center Fort Meade Friendship Annex Georgia Cryptologic Center Hawaii Cryptologic Center Interagency Training Center Kent Island Misawa Security Operations Center Multiprogram Research Facility Pine Gap RAF Menwith Hill Roaring Creek Room 641A Salt Creek Sugar Grove Texas Cryptologic Center Utah Data Center
Leaders	Ralph Canine John A. Samford Laurence Hugh Frost Gordon Blake Marshall Carter Noel Gayler Samuel C. Phillips Lew Allen Bobby Ray Inman Lincoln D. Faurer William Eldridge Odom Bill Studeman John Michael McConnell Kenneth Minihan Michael Hayden Keith B. Alexander Michael S. Rogers
Divisions	Central Security Service Information Warfare Support Center Remote Operations Center Special Collection Service Special Source Operations Tailored Access Operations NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center National Security Operations Center
Technology	ANT catalog FROSTBURG HARVEST Secure Terminal Equipment (STE) STU-I STU-II STU-III WARRIOR PRIDE
Controversy	2013 mass surveillance disclosures Church Committee Edward Snowden LOVEINT James Bamford NSA warrantless surveillance controversy Pike Committee Russ Tice Thomas Andrews Drake Thomas Tamm
Programs	Boundless Informant Dropmire ECHELON Fairview Insider Threat Program MUSCULAR MYSTIC PRISM Real Time Regional Gateway Stellar Wind TRAILBLAZER Turbulence Upstream XKeyscore
Databases	DISHFIRE Interquake Main Core MAINWAY MARINA Nymrod PINWALE
Other	Dundee Society Institute for Defense Analyses National Cryptologic Museum National Cryptologic School National Vigilance Park NSA Hall of Honor VENONA Zendian Problem