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.”)
  
  

• Briefing on National Security Language Initiative
  (January 5, 2006 Barry Lowenkron, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Dina Powell, Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Washington, DC)
  
  
• National Security Language Initiative Fact Sheet
  January 5, 2006
  
  

• 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
  
  
• Hindi/English Brochure
  
  
• Indonesian/English Brochure
  
  
• Russian/English Brochure
  
  
• Vietnamese/English Brochure
  

Media Contact

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