{
  "id": "USC-13",
  "category": "Cyber workforce development",
  "capability": "Fund cyber scholarships, university cyber programs, and qualifying graduate appointments",
  "summary": "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.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2200",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap112-sec2200.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2200a",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap112-sec2200a.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2200b",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap112-sec2200b.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2192c(e)",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2192c.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2200c",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap112-sec2200c.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; Director of the cyber academic-engagement office for §2192c(e) functions",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense; Director of the cyber academic-engagement office for §2192c(e) functions; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "Programs; purpose; Scholarship program; Grant program — statutory holder and execution conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap112-sec2200.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "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": [
    "Do not confuse institutional cyber grants with an unrestricted scholarship to any student or a general direct-hire power."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Available Cyber Scholarship Program funds and lawfully available institutional grant funds; no current solicitation or appropriation verified."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "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.",
  "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently 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.",
  "family": "Workforce and expertise",
  "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05",
  "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.",
  "usc_review_notes": [
    "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."
  ],
  "mechanisms": [
    "People & expertise"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense; Director of the cyber academic-engagement office for §2192c(e) functions; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "workforce-and-expertise",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-13",
    "name": "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative",
    "label": "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-13/",
    "basis": "Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office."
  },
  "program_context": [],
  "program_research": null,
  "checks": [
    {
      "key": "legal",
      "label": "Legal basis",
      "state": "Sources linked",
      "detail": "Legal sources and instrument limits are recorded."
    },
    {
      "key": "eligibility",
      "label": "Requirements",
      "state": "Gates recorded",
      "detail": "Read the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action."
    },
    {
      "key": "funds",
      "label": "Public funding",
      "state": "Rules recorded",
      "detail": "Available 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.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-13/#funding"
    },
    {
      "key": "delegation",
      "label": "Assigned roles",
      "state": "Roles recorded",
      "detail": "Public sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-13/#roles"
    },
    {
      "key": "execution",
      "label": "Engagement",
      "state": "Program unverified",
      "detail": "Added in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.",
      "url": "/sources/usc/"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "Do not confuse institutional cyber grants with an unrestricted scholarship to any student or a general direct-hire power."
}