Hi Paul,
Good to hear from you. I will respond here as the insight on the process will be beneficial to others.
Your kit was lost at CNRC. The other day I requested an update on all the outstanding kits at CNRC, to discover yours was not in the mix. It is now and will be sent to the next Intel board.
When an applicant completes his kit, or ADDOCS (additional documents, words taken from the nuclear processing side), and returns to his recruiter, we fax them to a single computer at CNRC. CNRC had some serious growing pains with implementing this new ADDOCS system. At the time yours was sent up, CNRC had only one incoming fax line, they now have four. It took awhile for us out in the field to realize we needed to contact CNRC in a few days to check if the fax was received on their end. On and on, both sides discovered problems and fixes for this new submission system. Paul, yours and about 6 others from different districts were lost, or rather floating around in their system with no where to go. The kits are electronically routed to the different selection boards. We had checked that CNRC received your kit, that was fine. But the processing within CNRC after receipt, something we cannot monitor out here, was the problem. Since I had not heard any news from the selction board, I thought your kit was simply waiting for the next board. Hearing nothing from Intel and Crypto for the months of Nov thru Jan was not unusually, as those two communities effectively stopped selecting until they could figure out their end-strength numbers for FY-03 and FY-04 manning. So hearning nothing did not raise any flags with us. Unfortunately, it also meant discovery of your "lost kit" was delayed.
Sorry that happened, Paul. Hang in there.
OPO