Cryptanalysis Development Program (CADP) – Entry to Experienced Level (Maryland)

Austincc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Security Agency (NSA) offers the Cryptanalysis Development Program (CADP) in Maryland, a three-year training track designed to produce professional cryptanalysts through tours, courses, and electives.

Participants perform data analysis, hypothesis testing, and software testing in a dynamic cryptanalytic environment, with duties ranging from analyzing data to drawing conclusions from test results.

Qualifications

• Cryptanalysts monitor and detect problems in data flow or collection to ensure collection quality.
• Analyze garbled intercepts using processing skills and techniques.
• Debug and test software programs.
• Work in a dynamic environment with duties that can include the following:

Responsibilities

• Analyzing data of various types
• Formulating questions and hypotheses about the data
• Testing hypotheses, usually via computer programs
• Drawing conclusions from test results

Skills

Cryptanalysis

Data analysis

Programming

Software debugging

Tools

Computer programs

Job description

Cryptanalysis Development Program (CADP) - Entry to Experienced Level (Maryland)

The NSA must maintain and develop a highly skilled workforce. The NSA/CSS Cryptanalysis Development Program (CADP) is designed to produce professional cryptanalysts through an intensive, structured program of formal training courses and varied work assignments. The CADP is a three-year development program where participants complete five (5) tours of duty in cryptanalytic offices, attend seven (7) required courses, and choose at least two (2) elective courses. After completion, they are then placed in a technical mission office to use their cryptanalytic skills.

Cryptanalysts at the NSA monitor and detect problems in data flow or collection to ensure collection quality. They analyze garbled intercepts by using processing skills and techniques, conduct analysis of signals and/or cryptographic data, and use that knowledge to diagnose and exploit encrypted material. They also debug and test software programs. The selected individual will work in a dynamic environment with duties that can include the following:

- Analyzing data of various types

- Formulating questions and hypotheses about the data

- Testing hypotheses, usually via computer programs

- Drawing conclusions from test results