Build research capacity in eligible states through DEPSCoR
Competitively fund university research, instrumentation and graduate assistance, and facilitate laboratory collaboration in eligible states and territories.
Other statutory tools
USC-11 / Workforce and expertise
Exchange personnel with governments, universities, nonprofits, and FFRDCs through IPA assignments
Arrange assignments for work of mutual concern with eligible governments, higher-education institutions, and defined other organizations, using appointment or detail and the statute’s reimbursement and travel authorities.
At a glance
Mission goalDevelop a technology
Possible toolUSC-11 · Cooperation & exchanges
Legal basis5 U.S.C. §3371
Responsible rolesPlanning · funds · approval · execution
Authority holder: Head of the federal agency, including a military department
Cooperation & exchanges
Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.
Availability and verification
Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.
Requirements and limits
Eligibility & prerequisites
- Obtain counterpart concurrence and employee consent; document mutual benefit.
- Apply §3371 entity definitions and the excluded categories of federal employees in §3372(a).
- Ordinary assignments are limited to two years plus a possible two-year extension; special tribal rules differ.
- Outgoing federal employees undertake equivalent return service, and travel reimbursement carries its own written agreement.
Limits & exclusions
- This is not a general exchange mechanism for every for-profit company; use the eligible-organization definitions and applicable personnel regulations.
- Pay, reimbursement, benefits, ethics, and employee status depend on whether the arrangement is an appointment, detail, or leave-without-pay assignment.
Funding conditions
- Sections 3373-3375 authorize the stated reimbursements, pay treatment, and travel expenses from appropriate agency appropriations.
Who contributes what
Need & planning
- Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor
Resources
- Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified
Approval
- Head of the federal agency, including a military department; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed
Execution
- Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative
Partners & review
- Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable
Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.
Coordination pathway
Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.
October 5 statutory review
Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified.
Legal basis
- 5 U.S.C. §3371Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
- 5 U.S.C. §3372Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
- 5 U.S.C. §3373Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
- 5 U.S.C. §3374Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
- 5 U.S.C. §3375Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
What this research establishes
Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedSections 3373-3375 authorize the stated reimbursements, pay treatment, and travel expenses from appropriate agency appropriations. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.
Confidence: High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.
Currentness: Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.
Review scope: Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.