{
  "id": "ACQ-24",
  "category": "Research workforce",
  "capability": "Provide STEM scholarships and fellowships tied to service",
  "summary": "Fund critical national-security STEM education, arrange internships, appoint successful participants and convert qualifying appointments into career service.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4093",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4093&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "DoDSMART program and sponsoring facility workforce planners"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "SMART program funds and sponsoring component personnel resources"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense/designated SMART and appointment officials"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "SMART program administrator; sponsoring facility HR"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Accredited institutions; qualifying industry internship sponsors"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. §4093 — statutory actor assignment",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4093&num=0&edition=prelim"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Critical discipline, eligible citizenship/institution, written service agreement at least matching supported study period."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Non-U.S. TTCP participation capped at 5 new recipients per year.",
    "Noncompletion/service failure can create repayment debt; Secretary has specified waiver authority."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Scholarship/fellowship funds; sponsor must identify funded employment and service placement."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Facility identifies STEM need → SMART selection and service agreement → education/internship → appointed service position.",
  "availability": "Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.",
  "confidence": "High on express authority and cited conditions; execution assignment is illustrative unless statute expressly names it.",
  "currentness": "GovInfo 2024 Code (includes FY2025 NDAA, P.L. 118-159) read in full for cited provision; targeted FY2026 NDAA P.L. 119-60 amendment/repeal sweep. No claim of complete legislative currency through 2026-10-02; remaining 2026 delta needs counsel validation.",
  "family": "Workforce and expertise",
  "mechanisms": [
    "People & expertise"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense/designated SMART and appointment officials"
    }
  ]
}