Applications are being accepted for a highly competitive broadening opportunity that allows certain officers and noncommissioned officers of the military police and military intelligence specialties to attend the FBI National Academy at Quantico, Virginia.

Army candidates for four 10-week courses to be conducted at the academy in 2016 will be made by a nomination panel that meets May 18-22 at the Human Resources Command. Nominations must be approved by the FBI.

The panel will nominate four primary attendees and 10 alternates from a group of eligibles that will include commissioned officers of the Military Police Corps; warrant officers and senior NCOs of the Criminal Investigation Command; and commissioned officers, warrant officers and senior NCOs of the counterintelligence specialties of military intelligence as follows:

Military police captains and non-promotable majors holding area of concentration 31A.

Criminal investigator warrant officers grades CW2-CW4 holding MOS 311A, and senior NCOs (sergeant first class through sergeant major) holding MOS 31D.

Military intelligence captains and majors holding AOC 31E, and warrant officers CW2-CW4 holding MOS 351L, and senior NCOs (sergeant first class through sergeant major) holding MOS 35L or 35Y.

Additional criteria requires that applicants be ages 25-50, meet Army weight and physical fitness standards, have no more than 15 years of active federal service as of June 2016, and be able to serve a law enforcement or investigative assignment after graduating from the academy.

Soldiers will incur an active-duty service obligation of three days for every day spent in school.

Officer applicants must be graduates of the Captains Career Course. Military police officers must have credit for a company command tour, while military intelligence officers must have completed a key developmental assignment for their grade.

Interested soldiers should consult MilPer Message 15-065, dated Feb. 27, for application details.The application deadline is May 13.