NAVAL INTELLIGENCE ESSAY CONTEST

2009 is a transition year for the Naval Intelligence Essay Contest.  A Memorandum of Understanding has been agreed to by NIF®, NIP and AFCEA and the following are the timelines for the 2009 Naval Intelligence Essay Contest.

The deadline date for essay submissions to the NIF/NIP review panel is November 1, 2009. The top three essays will be forwarded to the AFCEA Intelligence Committee not later than December 15, 2009 for selection of the first and second place essays. AFCEA will inform the winners of their selection and advise the first place winner of the choice of venues for the prize presentation.

The first prize will be presented at either West 2010, February 2-4, 2010, San Diego, CA or at the Joint Warfighting Conference to be held in Virginia Beach, VA, May 11-13, 2010, depending on the venue selected. The winning essay, upon publication approval by SIGNAL Magazine’s editor, would be published in the May 2010 issue of SIGNAL Magazine.

AFCEA will promote the Naval Intelligence Essay Contest at the Spring Intelligence Symposium, 22-23 April 2009. NIP will advertise the 2009 contest and AFCEA’s 2009 essay contest in its May issue of the Quarterly, on the NIP website and through NIPMAIL. SIGNAL Magazine will promote the contest through one house ad and by including information on its blog and potentially through other online media.  AFCEA Intelligence will promote both essay contests on its website.

Attached for your information are the submission guidelines for prospective authors.

2009 Naval Intelligence Essay Contest

$1,000 First Prize: 5-year membership in the Naval Intelligence Professionals; possible publication in Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) SIGNAL Magazine; 2-year membership in AFCEA. Second Prize: $500 and 1-year membership in NIP and AFCEA.

Maximum Length: 2,000 words.

Topic: Any subject pertaining to Naval Intelligence or intelligence support to naval forces.

Open to: Any military or civilian author

Published: Potential publication in AFCEA’s SIGNAL Magazine, and SIGNALScape Blog, and the AFCEA Intelligence website, and/or the NIP Quarterly.

Submission deadline: 1 November 2009.

Sponsors: Naval Intelligence Foundation, Naval Intelligence Professionals, and AFCEA. Underwritten in part by the Inman Foundation.

Direct entries to: navintproessays@aol.com.

Essay Contest Guidelines

Essays must be submitted electronically. To be eligible for consideration for the 2009 Naval Intelligence Essay Contest, e-mail submissions must be dated no later than 2359 on 1 November 2009. Submission for the contest constitutes the author’s permission to publish. It is the responsibility of the author to meet any requirement for pre-publication security review prior to submission.

Submit entries electronically to: navintproessays@aol.com.  Note the title of the essay contest in the subject line of your email. In the body of the email include the title of your essay, your name, address, telephone number, and a biography of 50 words or less. Because essays are judged without knowing the author's identity, your attached essay’s cover page should include the title of your essay as noted in the email and the word count (excluding text within graphic elements or footnotes), but not your name.

Your submission must be an original analytical and/or interpretive work not currently submitted or previously published elsewhere. You are encouraged to submit electronic photographic and/or graphic elements to support your essay. Images must be no less than 300 dpi. Illustrations submitted with essays by e-mail should be as a separate attachment or attachments, and must not be imbedded within the text of the essay.

The Naval Intelligence Foundation/Naval Intelligence Professionals review panel will choose the top three essays and forward them to the AFCEA Intelligence Committee for selection of the first and second place winning essays. If approved for publication, the winning essay will be published in AFCEA’s SIGNAL magazine. It is possible that essays, other than the winning essay, may also be published in SIGNAL, the SIGNALScape Blog and/or the NIP Quarterly.