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-13 / Workforce and expertise
Fund cyber scholarships, university cyber programs, and qualifying graduate appointments
Provide cyber-discipline education support tied to DoD service, award institutional grants for faculty, curricula, laboratories, and research, and appoint eligible scholarship graduates to cyber positions under the statutory hiring route. The cyber academic-engagement office also has separately bounded authority for educational contracts, cooperative agreements, grants, awards, and voluntary services.
At a glance
Mission goalDevelop a technology
Possible toolUSC-13 · People & expertise
Legal basis10 U.S.C. §2200
Responsible rolesPlanning · funds · approval · execution
Authority holder: Secretary of Defense; Director of the cyber academic-engagement office for §2192c(e) functions
People & expertise
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
- Scholarships require a qualifying degree or certificate program and a service agreement under §2200a; the minimum obligation is three-fourths of the supported degree-pursuit period, in addition to other obligations.
- Apply academic-progress, eligible-expense, repayment, and funding-allocation rules; at least half of scholarship funds and the stated associate-degree share have specified institutional restrictions.
- Institutional grants under §2200b have the four enumerated purposes.
- The special appointment route applies to successful scholarship graduates who owe DoD service; competitive conversion requires two years of satisfactory substantially continuous service.
- Apply the institutional considerations in §2200c for scholarship and grant selection.
- Section 2192c(e) additional instruments further a provision supporting cyber-related education in chapter 111 or elsewhere in Title 10 and yield to any contrary specification in that provision; they do not remove the distinct scholarship-service or institutional-grant conditions.
Limits & exclusions
- Do not confuse institutional cyber grants with an unrestricted scholarship to any student or a general direct-hire power.
Funding conditions
- Available Cyber Scholarship Program funds and lawfully available institutional grant funds; no current solicitation or appropriation verified.
Who contributes what
Need & planning
- Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor
Resources
- Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified
Approval
- Secretary of Defense; Director of the cyber academic-engagement office for §2192c(e) functions; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed
Office profile
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.
Actor and execution-role sources
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
- 10 U.S.C. §2200Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
- 10 U.S.C. §2200aOfficial GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
- 10 U.S.C. §2200bOfficial GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
- 10 U.S.C. §2192c(e)Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately.
- 10 U.S.C. §2200cOfficial GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately.
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 recordedAvailable Cyber Scholarship Program funds and lawfully available institutional grant funds; no current solicitation or appropriation verified. 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.