National Security Agency/Central Security Service careers
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The NSA runs a museum the public can walk into. The National Cryptologic Museum, next door to headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, holds thousands of artifacts and a research library of commercial code books, declassified documents, and transcribed oral histories, and it takes school and civic group tours by appointment. The agency's trade is cryptology, making the systems that protect US communications and analyzing the ones foreign powers use, and its workforce mixes civilians with service members from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.
Mathematicians and language analysts work beside civil and electrical engineers, physicists, computer scientists, intelligence analysts, researchers, security officers, data flow experts, budget analysts, contract specialists, and finance managers. An employee here has to be a loyal, trustworthy US citizen and qualify for a TOP SECRET clearance, which is the gate before anything else. Scholarship, internship, and high school work-study programs are separate entry routes.