Summary
DIA's National Security Education Program (NSEP) Internship provides recent college graduates the opportunity to gain practical work experience through research, report writing, briefing (development and delivery), policy writing and intelligence analysis. Interns are appointed for a one-year period and will be eligible for full government benefits (health insurance, etc.). DIA's Intelligence Officers are professionals on the front lines of the nation's defense by collecting, analyzing and reporting intelligence that ensures a clear and accurate understanding of foreign military capabilities, respective governments and their intentions.
Applicants will be evaluated on academic background and aptitude, analytical ability, written
communication skills and demonstrated leadership. Proficiency in a hard target language such as Arabic (all dialects). Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese), Korean, Indonesian, Persian-Iranian (Farsi), Persian-Afghan (Dari), Pashtu, Urdu, Russian, Thai, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Burmese, Malay, Hindu, Panjabi, Baluchi, Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Kurdish, Hausa, Yoruba, Swahili or Somali will enhance your application.
This announcement is open to any Boren Scholar, Boren Fellow, and English for Heritage Language Speakers Scholar with an outstanding service requirement. Academic disciplines of interest include but not limited to: Foreign Policy, International Relations, Homeland Security, Political Science, Criminal Justice, Security Policy, STEM degrees, geography, data sciences, military intelligence, intelligence operations, or other related majors.
NSEP Interns will be considered for full-time permanent employment at the conclusion of the
internship. However, permanent employment is not guaranteed and is subject to the needs of the Agency and available vacancies.
Science and Technology Career Field
Officers in this Career Field apply scientific methods and technical tradecraft across the full range of intelligence requirements. They support and conduct technical collection including collection planning, execution, exploitation, research and development, processing, reporting, and the development of tradecraft, tactics, techniques, and procedures. Officers conduct technical exploitation including exploitation of organically and externally collected materials, as well as exploitation of existing data for novel or innovative uses and undiscovered signatures. Officers are expected to have a broad understanding of the totality of the career field and a deep expertise in their specialty. They are expected to collaborate across the intelligence community on tradecraft and within the Science and Technology (S&T) community of National Labs, Industry, and Academia on technical collection and exploitation systems and methods.
2026 National Security Education Program (NSEP) Internship opportunities for the Science and Technology Career Field are available in the National Capital Region.