Awards

The NIF decided that the best way to “support naval intelligence and its people” would be to recognize excellence in performance, in the most visible way possible, at all the places where there were numbers of Naval Intelligence personnel, in the schoolhouses —

• the Naval Academy ADM Robert L. J. Long Award,
• the “C” School Outstanding Graduate Award (~25 awards per year),
• the RADM Donald M. Showers NIOBC Awards (six per year),
• the VADM Rufus L. Taylor NMITC and FITCPAC (now FITC) Awards (two per year),
• the ADM B.R. Inman Naval Post Graduate School Award,
• the Ann Caracristi NDIC Post Graduate Award,
• the ADM Ike Kidd Naval War College Award, and
• the Naval Intelligence Essay Contest Award.

We expanded our horizons to the operational navy, establishing awards for

• Naval Intelligence personnel in the fleet with the CDR Dan F. Shanower Intelligence Specialist of the year Awards, (junior and senior; afloat and ashore),
• the NIP Capital Chapter ONI Sailor of the Year Awards (junior, senior, reserve, and Blue Jacket),
• the LCDR John G. Tilson Reserve Intelligence Analyst of the Year Award,
• the RADM Thomas A. Brooks Junior Officer of the Year Awards (afloat and ashore)
• the CAPT Sidney E. Wood ONI Junior Officer of the Year Award , and
• the NIF-Navy League Award for exceptional leadership in providing excellence in operational intelligence support to the fleet.

NIF has provided permanent plaques at each of the locations where there are major awards, upon which are engraved the names of the annual winners. Through its Awards, scholarship, and Essay contest programs, NIF now sponsors and funds 13 awards, four scholarships, and two Naval Intelligence Essay Contest prizes.