26JAN2026 IWC Board

[Infamous]

If it makes you feel any better, there were Intel applicants at the August 2025 IWC board who submitted their packets in the Fall of 2024 and had largely the same experience. The IWC board in August 2024 did pretty much the exact same thing – picking up a relatively large number of folks for Intel (compared to boards past), then cancelling draws for civilian Intel applicants at subsequent IWC boards for about a year. From what it sounds like your recruiters are saying, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a trend continuing into 2026 (as the old saying goes – once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and thrice is a pattern…...or enemy action. Dealer’s choice).

As much as that sucks, I'd also point out that a fair number of Intel selects who posted in the August 2025 IWC Board thread received projected ship dates ranging between March and September of 2026 (which means they haven’t even left for OCS yet). All this is to say, if you're a civilian and Intel is really what you want, you can bank on the process not moving quickly. That said, if you're not imminently about to age out of eligibility, I'd still argue that waiting to get the designator you want is better (for you and the Navy in the long run) than locking yourself into something tolerable just because it's available sooner.

100% agree especially that last bit. It’s just nice to talk about these things with people in the same boat ask you tbh. But yea I mean hopefully your right and there will be another big selection in June but I’m not banking on it, just hopeful at this point .

 

[ezsloth]

does anyone have access to the sharepoint tracker? I requested access but I doubt it gets approved lol

 

[sumorocky]

I have spoken with my recruiter and he did tell me I was at board for IP Officer. So it looks like IPO is still open, but from reading the other posts, other designators for IWC are closed. So for anyone that have their packages in for IPO we should be good but who really knows haha

 

[exNavyOffRec]

Yikes... so that means that there will have been almost a year between INTEL boards open to civilians (I believe August '25 was the last one)? How is that at all strategic? Why accept >50% of applicants in the August '25 IWC board to stonewall qualified apps in following quarters. (Just a frustrated applicant ranting lol).

I know dude, my recruiter was telling me about the cw guys since that’s what I’m applying for. He told me there were like some guys that really had no business being selected especially since there were 84 guys picked up from 1 board. It messed everything up. And I was an applicant for intel in that board and I switched to cw so yes by the time I get the answer for 6/29 it will have been 1 year.

If it makes you feel any better, there were Intel applicants at the August 2025 IWC board who submitted their packets in the Fall of 2024 and had largely the same experience. The IWC board in August 2024 did pretty much the exact same thing – picking up a relatively large number of folks for Intel (compared to boards past), then cancelling draws for civilian Intel applicants at subsequent IWC boards for about a year. From what it sounds like your recruiters are saying, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a trend continuing into 2026 (as the old saying goes – once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and thrice is a pattern…...or enemy action. Dealer’s choice).

As much as that sucks, I'd also point out that a fair number of Intel selects who posted in the August 2025 IWC Board thread received projected ship dates ranging between March and September of 2026 (which means they haven’t even left for OCS yet). All this is to say, if you're a civilian and Intel is really what you want, you can bank on the process not moving quickly. That said, if you're not imminently about to age out of eligibility, I'd still argue that waiting to get the designator you want is better (for you and the Navy in the long run) than locking yourself into something tolerable just because it's available sooner.

There can be a few things in play, ISEL for one as who knows how many spots those are taking up for Intel and CW, there is no IP ISEL on their PA which might be why IP could be still available. The other is that there have been a few times where the IWC community even with direction from NRC went ahead and just picked more than they were supposed to, and it caused a mess.