Action brief · USC-12

Support technical education, graduate training, and laboratory partnerships

Objective

Develop a technology

Family / instrument

Workforce and expertise · STEM education and laboratory partnerships

Statute

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense and authorized defense-laboratory directors; the relevant Secretaries for STARBASE support

Executor · routing lead

Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative

Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)

Section 2193 student grants concern national-security-critical scientific and engineering disciplines, are paid to the enrolled student’s institution, and may not exceed attendance cost.

Section 2194 agreements are with qualifying U.S. educational institutions; apply its priority requirements and the separate conditions for equipment loans, surplus transfers, and financial assistance.

All requirements & limits

Recorded funding condition (excerpt)

Appropriate available education and research funds; STARBASE may accept the financial or other support enumerated in §2193b(f); partnership financial assistance uses new and separate contracts, agreements, or grants under §2194(b)(8).

All funding conditions

What this does not authorize / limits

Do not import SMART service-obligation terms into §2193 student grants; these are distinct authorities.

An education partnership is not a general unrestricted commercial subsidy, and equipment access does not convey all associated IP.
Do not impose SMART-style return service on NDSEG fellowships without a separate applicable basis. No current §2198 Japanese-training program or solicitation was verified.

Legal basisSources linked

RequirementsGates recorded

Public fundingRules recorded

Assigned rolesRoles recorded

EngagementProgram unverified

Implementation caution: Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.

Actor sources

Improvement of education in technical fields: grants for higher education in science and mathematics; Department of Defense STARBASE Program; Education partnerships; Utilization of Federal technology — statutory holder and execution conditions

Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.