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The Story

“Shhhh! There is a test in progress"

We had been shushed by the test proctor. And for the second time. This might not sound unusual, but I was at

Friendship Annex (FANX) - the NSA facility near the Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) airport where

applicant processing takes place -being interviewed by a division manager and several of his direct reports for a

systems-development position. We were sitting in a large room directly behind the computerized testing facility

where there were a gaggle of applicants taking foreign language tests. Naturally, I had assumed that the walls were

all copper-lined to prevent inter-room electromagnetic emissions, slathered with Jello (on the inside), and insulated

with bubble-wrap, with "Tunes of the Amish" piped-in to confuse any bug-planting Russkies. The walls would be

watertight too, in case they need to Dog The Hatches - although that might only be applicable on things that float

and sail. But in actuality, these were ordinary office-walls. Our voices had carried through as in any ordinary office

setting. For the most part, this was a reasonably standard office building except for the guns, soldiers, barbed wire,

and an abnormally high number of locked doors. Welcome to the National Security Agency.

It’s a good sign when your hosts are making as much or more noise than you are, but I said “Sorry, we’ll keep it

down.” On the shelves in our room I spied several foreign language dictionaries and thought “I am having way

more fun than the people in the next room.”

How Did I Get Here?

I was in a period of professional transition and I had a brainstorm that I wanted to work for the National Security

Agency. It was a little bit of a lot of things: from the pre-NSA World War II crypto successes that I read in my

youth (e.g., “AF is short of freshwater”) – being a history nut, recent developments in world-events (e.g., 9/11), to

the simple fact that it is the largest intelligence agency in the world. And the agency has historically measured

computing resources in acres. Acres! One can only imagine the top-secret high-tech synthesis of agricultural and

computer science phraseology: “Go out and data-mine the back-40. Harvest the intelligence. We had a problem

with the combine on last night’s batch job.” Awesome!

But the agency had issues. A late 1999 external management review cited a technological gap with commercial

practice, a broken Requirement & Delivery process, and poor stakeholder relations (with quotes such as “when

people say the NSA doesn’t get it, they just talk louder”). Too insular, and by inference, too in-bred. Ouch. From

the report there were, no doubt, large numbers of smart people in the organization, but perhaps not enough people

just crazy enough to believe they can break through the bureaucracy and crank up whatever they do a notch or ten.

“Hey, I can help with that!” I thought. “Wouldn’t it be cool to not only work there, but to help make it better!”

And I even managed to get an interview.

But actually getting to the NSA isn’t easy - in more ways than one.

To become an NSA employee, one must follow a process that can be as involved as the most invasive medical

procedure ending in “-oscopy.” For experienced personnel, the first step is to have a pre-screen interview, which is