National Language Service Corps Press Page

Press Releases

• May 23, 2007 - General Dynamics Awarded $19 Million Contract to Establish National Corps of Language Professionals
  
  
• May 08, 2007 - DoD Announces Pilot Language Corps

NLSC in the News

• Defense to test run foreign language corps
  8/19/08 - Government Executive Magazine

Background Materials

• NLSC Fact Sheet
  
  
• John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007
  (Public Law 109-364, Section 944 – “Administration of pilot project on Civilian Linguist Reserve Corps.”)
  
  
• National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006
  (Public Law 109-163, Section 1124 – “Support by Department of Defense of pilot project for Civilian Linguist Reserve Corps.”)
  
  

• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005
  (Public Law 108-487, Sec. 613 - "Pilot project on Civilian Linguist Reserve Corps.")
  
  
• A Call to Action for National Foreign Language Capabilities
  (White Paper for the National Language Conference, February 1, 2005.)
  
  
• United States Civilian Linguist Reserve Corps Feasibility Study
  
  
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003
  (Reference Section 325, "Report on establishment of a Civilian Linguist Reserve Corps.")
  
  
• The President's Management Agenda of FY 2002

NLSC Brochures

• English-Only Brochure
  
  
• Chinese Mandarin/English Brochure
  
  
• Hausa/English Brochure
  
  
• Hindi/English Brochure
  
  
• Indonesian/English Brochure
  
  
• Marshallese/English Brochure
  
  
• Russian/English Brochure
  
  
• Somali/English Brochure
  
  
• Thai/English Brochure
  
  
• Vietnamese/English Brochure
  

Media Contact

• Department of Defense Public Affairs Press Desk at +1 (703) 697-5131.