Captain Laurance Safford Scholarship

Scholarship Value: $3,000

Awards Available: 3

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Each year, the U.S. Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association awards three scholarships to three meritorious students in the amounts of $3000, $2500, and $2000. These scholarships are intended to recognize academic excellence, leadership, community service and a commitment to pursuing higher education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, math, linguistics, and cyber.

About Captain Safford

Captain Safford established the Naval cryptologic organization after World War I, and headed the effort more or less constantly until shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His identification with the Naval cryptologic effort was so close that he was often referred to as the Friedman of the Navy.

Captain Safford was the first to begin organizing the worldwide Naval collection and direction-finding effort, so that when the United States entered World War II it already had a system of intercept stations. The effort he headed broke Japanese naval codes, and began mechanizing its operations with IBM equipment.

Safford was directly involved with building cryptographic machines. He collaborated with the Army's Frank Rowlett in the invention of the SIGABA, the only cipher machine never broken by any country during World War II.

Application Procedures

  1. Complete application must be submitted no later than 30 June of the year you are applying. This date is driven by availability of applicants end of year academic reports such as transcripts and educational institution acceptance letters.
    • Download and complete the scholarship application form online.
    • Scan all documents (minimum 300 dpi resolution) as PDFs.
    • Attach and send them by email to the Scholarship Manager. Your submission will be acknowledged via E-mail, and you will be advised if there are any elements missing or illegible.
  2. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
  3. While not required, submission of a head/shoulders photo of the candidate would be appreciated for future publication in CRYPTOLOG in the event the applicant wins a scholarship.
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