Fund cyber scholarships, university cyber programs, and qualifying graduate appointments
- Objective
- Develop a technology
- Family / instrument
- Workforce and expertise · Cyber workforce development
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense; Director of the cyber academic-engagement office for §2192c(e) functions
- Executor · routing lead
- Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
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.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Available Cyber Scholarship Program funds and lawfully available institutional grant funds; no current solicitation or appropriation verified.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Do not confuse institutional cyber grants with an unrestricted scholarship to any student or a general direct-hire power.
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
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.