2022 U.S. NAVY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SOLICITATION

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SUBJ/2022 U.S. NAVY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE SUPERIOR 
ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SOLICITATION// 
 
RMKS/1.  Purpose.  Solicit nominations for the first annual U.S. Navy 
Counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Superior Achievement 
Awards.  The CI and HUMINT Superior Achievement Awards consist of six 
separate awards:  HUMINT Collector Award, Foreign Military Intelligence 
Collection Activities (FORMICA) Collector Award, CI Agent Award, HUMINT Team 
Award, CI Team Award, and CI/HUMINT Management and Oversight Team Award. 
 
2.  Eligibility.  The eligibility period for all awards is 1 January 2022 to 
31 December 2022.  These awards recognize U.S. Navy civilian employees, 
active duty personnel, and reservists in an active duty status, who performed 
CI or HUMINT activities and distinguished themselves during calendar year 
2022.  Activities performed by U.S. Navy Sailors and civilians while assigned 
or under the operational control outside of the U.S. Navy are also eligible.   
U.S. Navy contractors may not be submitted for awards.  Nominations for team 
awards can include no more than twenty-five personnel. 
 
3.  Nomination Package Criteria.  Nomination packages will be assessed 
according to significance/impact, relative difficulty and operational 
complexity, level of innovation, and resourcefulness.  Individual and team 
awards may capture sustained performance throughout the calendar year or 
focus on individual operations, deployments, support activities, or other 
shorter-term actions that occurred during the calendar year.  The target 
population for the FORMICA Collector Award are those Sailors and civilians 
who are graduates of the Navy's FORMICA Course and have no other HUMINT or CI 
training.  The target population for the CI/HUMINT Management and Oversight 
Team Award are the Fleet N2X staffs, or similar oversight management staffs 
at Navy commands with organic CI/HUMINT personnel. 
 
4.  Submission Instructions.  Nomination packages can be classified no higher 
than Top Secret//SCI.  Packages must be submitted electronically via NIPRNET, 
SIPRNET, or JWICS depending on classification level.  Commands should avoid 
including unnecessary personal identifiable information in nomination 
packages.  Recent fitness reports, evaluations, or awards are not required in 
nomination packages and should not be included in submissions. 
    a.  Nominations should not exceed two pages.  Use Times New Roman 12 
point font and mark the document with the appropriate classification 
markings, per Controlled Access Program Coordination Office guidelines.  List 
in order the award category, nominee/team name, job series, and rank/grade, 
nominee organization, location and point of contact, summary of achievements, 
and impact of achievements in the context of the criteria in paragraph 3.  
For all award nominations, submit an endorsement letter from the leadership 
chain of command for the individual or team being nominated for an award. 
    b.  The current command of the nominee(s) must forward all nomination 
packages to Mr. Stephen Carr at stephen.j.carr.civ(at)us.navy.mil.  For 
classified package submissions, email Mr. Carr on SIPRNET at 
stephen.j.carr1(at)navy.smil.mil or JWICS at carrste(at)nmic.ic.gov. 
Nomination packages must be submitted no later than 30 days after release of 
this NAVADMIN.  Award recipients will be notified by 30 June 2023.  Awards 
will be forwarded to respective commands by 31 July 2023. 
 
5.  Released by VADM Jeffrey E. Trussler, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations 
for Information Warfare, OPNAV N2N6.// 
 
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