Contract directly for university students’ temporary technical services
- Objective
- Develop a technology
- Family / instrument
- Workforce and expertise · Research workforce
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense
- Executor · routing lead
- Laboratory and student or nonprofit employing students
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Student and institution meet implementing definitions; services are technical support at defense R&D laboratory.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Expressly subject to appropriations for this purpose.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Specified workers-compensation and tort-claims employee status only; not general federal employee status.
- Not an unrestricted personal-services contract exception for all professionals.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProgram-specific
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.
Actor sources
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.