Position Locator for Centers of Academic Excellence

All of the NSA Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance have successfully mapped their curriculum to NSA training standards. There are two scholarship programs that fund students to attend these schools in return for promised service in the Information Assurance field. There are presently 36 centers and the number of graduates with a strong information assurance foundation is growing.

One issue that has developed is that placing non-scholarship graduates in IA positions has been challenging. I believe this is largely because of the number of "cookie cutter" computing positions that are routinely pitched to graduating students.

We are not able to get similar quality/quantity of information to our graduates regarding IA-specific opportunities.

It would be nice if we could facilitate matching this valuable IA resource to available positions.

It is The Colloquium’s intent to try to provide non-scholarship students with as much employment information as possible and we would appreciate if you can provide us a URL that allows our students to review relevant positions as they become available. Because of the ambiguity in position names and in the way and time frame for recruitment in the government, It would be even better if I could receive relevant position announcements via email for redistribution to students nearing graduation.

This effort is being coordinated by Professor Alec Yasinsac at Florida State University.