Usually when I’m looking at the job and internship requirements to get a feel for what a company is looking for, I’m looking at things like education, experience, skills, and job functions. It’s not often that I’m thinking about security clearance, but at today’s company, SPARTA, it’s essential for most of their jobs and even some of their internships. (Now, don’t worry if you don’t already have Top Secret Clearance, they still might have jobs for you as long as you didn’t get into too much trouble during your college years or before.) The reason that there’s all this talk about clearance is that SPARTA is a company whose “core business areas include strategic defense and offense systems, tactical weapons systems, and space systems” and whose “major intelligence credentials include intelligence production, computer network operations, and information assurance.”
If you’ve spent your time in college attending peace protests, then SPARTA probably isn’t for you, but if you have a hard science or engineering background that you’d like to put to practical use, then you’ll be fascinated by the job titles that SPARTA is hiring for. Current openings include Weapons Effects Analyst, Cyberspace Analyst, and WMD Engineer (don’t worry, this job is about “supporting national efforts in developing, integrating and synchronizing capabilities to combat weapons of mass destruction”). These obviously aren’t internships, but they give you a good sense of what kind of work SPARTA does.
As for internships, SPARTA has some pretty interesting looking opportunities. There’s an Engineering Internship at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado, a Mathematics / Stats/ Computer Science Internship in El Segundo, CA, a Software Programming Internship in Centreville, VA, and a General Internship in Columbia, MD. There’s no mention of whether or not these internships are paid, but I would be shocked if they weren’t. You can apply for the internships online directly from the postings.
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