NOVEMBER 2013 ACTIVE DUTY OFFICER LATERAL TRANSFER/REDESIGNATION BOARD:

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SUBJ/NOVEMBER 2013 ACTIVE DUTY OFFICER LATERAL TRANSFER/REDESIGNATION BOARD// 

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NARR/REF A IS OPNAVINST 1210.5, LATERAL TRANSFER/REDESIGNATION AND 
AUGMENTATION OF OFFICERS IN THE NAVY.  REF B IS MILPERSMAN ARTICLE 1212-010, 
LATERAL TRANSFER AND CHANGE OF DESIGNATOR CODES OF REGULAR AND RESERVE 
OFFICERS.  REF C IS MILPERSMAN ARTICLE 1212-030, REDESIGNATION OF REGULAR 
PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS.  REF D IS MILPERSMAN ARTICLE 
1210-220, NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE OFFICER (SEA-AIR-LAND AND SEAL DELIVERY 
VEHICLE (SEAL AND SDV) TEAMS).  REF E IS MILPERSMAN ARTICLE 1220-410, 
SEAL/EOD/SWCC/DIVER/AIRR PHYSICAL SCREENING TESTING STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES.  
REF F IS MILPERSMAN ARTICLE 1210-230, EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) 
OFFICER.  REF G IS MILPERSMAN ARTICLE 1220-100, NAVY DIVER (ND) RATING.  REF 
H IS SECNAV M-5510.30, DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY PERSONNEL SECURITY PROGRAM.

RMKS/1.  This NAVADMIN announces the November 2013 Active Duty Officer 
Lateral Transfer/Redesignation Board.  One element of Navy's personnel 
program is to properly balance the skills and experience in the officer 
corps.  As part of the process, applications from qualified unrestricted 
line, restricted line, staff corps, and limited duty officers (LDO) are now 
being accepted for an Active Duty Officer Lateral Transfer/Redesignation 
Board which convenes 12 November 2013.  Full-Time Support (FTS) and Selected 
Reserve (SELRES) officers are not eligible to apply for this board.

2.  In addition to the year group (YG) limitations imposed in paragraph 6, 
applicants must also meet eligibility requirements detailed in refs
(a) through (c).
    a.  Members who do not meet eligibility requirements per refs (a) through 
(c) such as time-in-grade (TIG), years-of-commissioned service (YCS), or 
time-in-service (TIS) must submit a waiver package in addition to their 
lateral transfer/redesignation application.
    b.  Waiver packages must include member's waiver request and commanding 
officer's endorsement.  This endorsement is separate from any endorsements 
contained in the member's lateral transfer/redesignation application and must 
specifically address the eligibility requirement requiring a waiver.

3.  Submit applications and waiver packages, using the format in ref (b), to 
the address below:
       Commander Navy Personnel Command
       Customer Service Center
       November 2013 Active Duty Lateral Transfer/Redesignation Board #40
       5720 Integrity Drive
       Millington TN 38055-0000

4.  Application and waiver packages must be received NLT 25 September 2013.

5.  To confirm application receipt, contact NAVPERSCOM Customer Service 
Center at (866) 827-5672/DSN 882, or log onto www.public.navy.mil and click 
on customer service.

6.  The following information provides potential candidates an indication of 
existing lateral transfer/redesignation opportunities.
    a.  Designators indicated are authorizing a limited number of active-duty 
officers to transfer from their current community.  Each YG is subject to 
change prior to the board convening:
Community/Designator                  Available YG         Notes
Surface Warfare (111X)                11 and senior        a, b, p
Submarine (112X)                      07 and senior        b, c
Pilot (131X)                          05 and senior        d
Naval Flight Officer (132X)           07 and senior        d
Information Warfare (181X)            96                   N/A
JAG (250X)                            06-00                e
Supply (310X)                         10-04, 01 and senior N/A
Limited Duty (6XXX)                                        f
    b.  Requests for transfer from communities not listed in paragraph 6a 
(including all LDO designators) are extremely limited and handled on a case-
by-case basis.
    c.  The following designators have requirements for a limited number of 
officers to transfer into their active duty community.  
Each YG is subject to change prior to the board convening:
Community/Designator                   Available YG        Notes
Surface Warfare (116X)                 12 and junior       g
Special Warfare (118X)                 10 and junior       h
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (119X)     11                  i
Human Resources (120X)                 11-02               N/A
Pilot (139X)                           10 and junior       N/A
Naval Flight Officer (137X)            10 and junior       N/A
Engineering Duty (146X)                10-99               q
Aerospace Engineering (151X)           06-99               N/A
Aerospace Maintenance (152X)           12-02               j
Information Warfare (181X)             11, 09-07, 02       k
Information Professional (182X)        08-05, 03, 01-00    k
Intelligence (183X)                    11, 09-07, 03-02    k
Public Affairs (165X)                  04, 07 and junior   N/A
Foreign Area Officer (17XX)            08-01, 99-98        l
Oceanography (180x)                    10-05               m
Medical Service Corps (230X)           04 and junior       N/A
Supply Corps Officer (310X)            08-06               n
Civil Engineer Corps (510X)            07 and junior       o

7.  Notes:
    a.  Must have surface warfare officers (SWO) qualification completed to 
apply for transfer.  Officers under SWO continuation pay or revised junior 
critical skills retention bonus contract are not eligible for transfer until 
completion of requisite department head tours.  SWO serving under an 
agreement for any of the special or incentive pays are not eligible to apply 
to the board until within one year of satisfaction of the full obligation.
    b.  Waivers to the requirements of paragraph 4h of ref (b) for nuclear-
trained surface and submarine warfare officers may be considered on a case-
by-case basis.
    c.  Officers screened "not cleared" for their next career milestone are 
eligible.
    d.  The YG range provided displays possible opportunities.  Contact your 
specific community placement officer with questions regarding quota 
availability for each platform/community.  All officers YG-00 and senior are 
eligible, regardless of platform/community.
    e.  Judge advocates looking to laterally transfer to another community 
should be aware that upon lateral transfer to another community, they will 
lose the three years of constructive credit provided to judge advocates upon 
commissioning.  As a consequence, some junior officers with less than four 
years of total service, looking to laterally transfer, may be reduced in rank 
to LTJG.
    f.  LDO redesignation requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, 
considering impact to overall community health.  Nuclear LDO submissions will 
not be considered.  All other designators must have completed four years 
commissioned service and accepted permanent LDO appointment to LT prior to 
lateral transfer/redesignation.  LDO out quotas are extremely limited, 
special consideration will be given to those LCDRs with 28 or more years 
total active service facing statutory retirement as a LCDR.  Supply Corps and 
Information Dominance Corps applicants in YG's 07 and senior will receive 
favorable consideration.
    g.  Officers YG-11 and senior seeking lateral transfer into the surface 
warfare community are strongly encouraged to contact the SWO community 
manager prior to applying in order to discuss critical SWO career milestone 
requirements.
    h.  Only Restricted Line and Staff Corps selections to the Naval Special 
Warfare (NSW) community will be processed via this board.  
Unrestricted Line applications for NSW will not be considered by this board.  
All applicants must be eligible for Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented 
Information (TS/SCI) security clearance, worldwide assignable, meet 
requirements of ref (d) and pass physical screening 
test per ref (e).   
    i.  Warfare qualified officers in YG-11 seeking lateral transfer into the 
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), community are strongly encouraged to 
contact the EOD community manager prior to applying in order to discuss 
critical EOD career milestone requirements.  All applicants must be eligible 
for TS/SCI security clearance, worldwide assignable, meet requirements in ref 
(f) and pass physical screening test per ref (g).
    j.  Applicants are encouraged to contact the aerospace maintenance duty 
officer community manager to discuss milestones and qualifications.
    k.  Officers applying for Information Professional (IP), Information 
Warfare (IW) or Intelligence communities:  O4 and O5 applicants for 1820 with 
more than two years time-in-grade should contact the IP community manager to 
discuss milestone and performance requirements.  All officers who are either 
above or in-zone for FY-15 promotion to LCDR through CAPT will not be 
considered for lateral transfer.  IP, IW, and Intel applicants must be 
eligible for TS/SCI, have a single scope background investigation (SSBI) 
completed within the past five years, or upon selection submit a personnel 
security questionnaire (SF-86) per ref (h).  
IW applicants that do not hold or are not currently eligible for TS/SCI must 
complete an SCI eligibility pre-screening interview with the fleet cyber 
command security directorate field office at (850) 452-6868 and submit the 
results as part of their application.  All applicants must be worldwide 
assignable.  All YG-07 and senior 6440 and 6450 redesignation applicants will 
be considered.  All YG-08 and senior 6420 redesignation applicants will be 
considered.
    l.  All Foreign Area Officer applicants must be eligible for TS/SCI 
security clearance and worldwide assignable.  Worldwide assignability shall 
be verified and documented via successful overseas screening to NAVCENT 
standards (e.g., Bahrain) to include family members.  Candidates must have 
their language abilities documented by a recent (2010 or later is desired) 
Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT), oral proficiency interview (OPI), 
or Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB)
- DLPT/OPI level 2 or higher, DLAB score greater than 120 and Arabic, 
Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, and French speakers are highly 
desirable.  Applicants without a regionally-focused masters degree must have 
an academic profile code of 265 or better, or an undergraduate GPA of at 
least 2.65.  The following paragraphs provide rank and YG specific 
information for officers considering lateral transfer/redesignation to 
Foreign Area Officer (FAO):
        (1) LT - applicants in YG 08-05 are desired. 
        (2) LCDR or LCDR(sel) - applicants in YG 04-01 are desired.
        (3) CDR or CDR(sel) in YG 99-98 are desired.  Applicants should 
already possess a regionally-focused masters degree.  The community is 
especially interested in applicants who have substantial overseas experience, 
and/or language capabilities.  Interested officers in these year groups are 
highly encouraged to contact the FAO community manager to discuss milestones, 
qualifications and career implications before applying.  There are limited 
availability for other YGs for qualified commanders with significant overseas 
experience who possess proficiency in one or more language(s).  Please 
contact the FAO community manager before applying.
        (4) CAPT - qualified captains with significant experience in the 
Pacific Command or Central Command area of responsibility who possess 
proficiency in one or more Asian-Pacific or middle eastern languages are 
encouraged to apply.  Please contact the FAO community manager before 
applying.
    m.  Oceanography applicants shall request to have academic profile codes 
(APC) calculated by Naval postgraduate school prior to board convening date.  
All YG-10 and senior 6460 redesignation applicants will be considered.
    n.  The Supply Corps is only accepting applicants from the LDO Supply 
community (651X) in YG 08-06 IAW LDO off-ramp initiative.
    o.  Civil Engineer Corps applicants must have an accreditation board for 
engineering and technology accredited engineering degree or a national 
architectural accrediting board accredited architecture degree.
    p.  Board applicants commissioned under a still-valid SWO-option 
agreement (ED, Intel, IP, IW, OCEANO) must contact their respective 
restricted line option community manager regarding desire to be released from 
the SWO-option agreement and seek lateral transfer to a different community.
    q.  Officers without a warfare qualification are expected to submit an 
application for the ED dolphin program.  Contact the Engineering Duty 
Community Manager for additional guidance.

8.  Each applicant is required to list their lateral transfer/redesignation
choice(s) by priority in their application.  Additionally, each applicant is 
required to indicate their desire to be considered/not considered for lateral 
transfer/redesignation by communities not listed in the application with the 
following statement:  "If not selected by one of my listed choices, I 
desire/do not desire my package to be reviewed by other communities during 
the lateral transfer/redesignation board."  If selected by a community not 
listed in their application, these applicants will be notified via official 
correspondence after the selection results are released with the option to 
accept or decline.

9.  For additional lateral transfer eligibility information, refer to the 
selection board website at www.public.navy.mil/bupers-NPC/boards/
administrative/transferredesignation/pages/default.aspx and click on letter 
of instruction.  Interested officers are strongly recommended to contact 
their respective community managers listed below: 

               SPECWAR               (703) 604-5059
               IP                    (901) 874-2846/DSN 882
               HR                    (901) 874-4049/DSN 882
               FAO                   (901) 874-3694/DSN 882
               AEDO                  (301) 757-8480/DSN 882
               EDO                   (901) 874-3473/DSN 882
               AMDO                  (301) 757-8481/DSN 882
               SWO                   (901) 874-3173/DSN 882
               CEC                   (901) 874-4034/DSN 882
               MSC                   (901) 874-2369/DSN 882
               IW                    (901) 874-3123/DSN 882
               EOD                   (901) 874-4991/DSN 882
               Intel                 (901) 874-3426/DSN 882
               Oceano                (901) 874-2461/DSN 882
               Supply                (901) 874-3189/DSN 882
               PAO                  (901) 874-3098/DSN 882
               Aviation             (901) 874-3353/DSN 882
               Sub                  (703) 604-5490/DSN 664
               SWO(N)               (703) 604-5488/DSN 664

10.  Points of contact are CWO3 Mitchell D. Allen at (901) 874-3170/DSN
882 or via e-mail at mitchell.d.allen@navy.mil and Ms. Linda Coffield at 
(901) 874-3171/DSN 882 or via e-mail at linda.coffield@navy.mil.

11.  Released by Vice Admiral W. F. Moran, N1.//

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