Delivering America's next generation of defense leaders
A student-led network building the pipeline between campus and the national security enterprise.
One partnership. Ten campuses.
Partner firms brief every chapter, host site visits, and meet trained candidates before the recruiting cycle opens.
Any major, any year. Students join a local chapter.
Speaker series, site visits, and tabletop exercises.
A curriculum that trains members as analysts.
Referrals into partner firms and federal service.
Speaker series, panels, and site visits with practitioners from government and industry.
Tabletop exercises, briefing drills, and a fellowship curriculum that treats undergraduates like analysts.
A referral network into 24 partner firms and the federal national security workforce.
Any major, any year. Join a chapter, attend two events, and you are in the placement cycle by spring.
Apply to a chapter →Brief the chapters, host a site visit, and see the placement roster before anyone else. Tiers from $5,000.
Partnership tiers →Alumni, parents, faculty. Gifts fund chapter operations and fellowship travel. NDS is a 501(c)(3).
Support the pipeline →Chapter reports, placements, reading list. Thursdays.