VETERAN RESOURCES FOR NSEP PROGRAMS

The National Security Education Program (NSEP) programs within the Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO) have developed a strategic relationship between the national security community and higher education, and help address the government’s need for experts in critical languages and regions. NSEP initiatives are designed to attract, recruit, and train a future national security workforce and strongly encourage the participation of veterans in their programs.

Key NSEP programs to consider are:

• David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships: individual awards to undergraduate and graduate students to study critical languages overseas in exchange for future federal service.

• The Language Flagship: university-based grants to provide advanced critical language instruction in Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, and Russia. Participating students are able to obtain professional-level proficiency while pursing any major. This program concludes with an overseas capstone year supported via Boren Flagship Awards or via ROTC commitments. 

• Project Global Officer: funding for ROTC students to improve the language skills and culture skills through short-term overseas critical language study.

• Regional Flagship Languages Initiative (RFLI): Boren Awards program to improve the learning of the critical languages of Africa, Indonesia and South Asia that includes intensive domestic and overseas language training.
  
  NSEP actively seeks veterans willing to take on the challenge of obtaining advanced and professional critical language proficiency, as part of their higher education experience, and hope to further their service to the nation.
  
  To find out more about the NSEP initiatives sponsored by the DLNSEO office, please go here.