{
  "id": "USC-16",
  "category": "Defense-industry education",
  "capability": "Educate eligible defense-industry employees at the Naval Postgraduate School",
  "summary": "Admit eligible employees of defense firms to specified Naval Postgraduate School master’s or professional-certificate instruction in defense product development and systems engineering, charging and retaining tuition as authorized.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §8549",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleC-partIII-chap855-sec8549.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of the Navy; President of the Naval Postgraduate School for tuition",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of the Navy; President of the Naval Postgraduate School for tuition; 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": "Defense industry civilians: admission to defense product development program — statutory holder and execution conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleC-partIII-chap855-sec8549.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Employee must work for a firm providing significant and substantial defense-related systems, products, or services, and remain with that firm.",
    "No more than 125 such employees may be enrolled at once; an annual Secretary determination must establish mission benefit and space availability without expanding faculty, course offerings, or facilities.",
    "The specified defense-focused curriculum must not be readily available through other schools, and tuition must meet the statutory floor."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "This is bounded admission to instruction, not a general company training grant or guaranteed seat."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Tuition receipts are retained to defray instruction costs and specifically identified in school records."
  ],
  "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": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "navy-marine-corps",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of the Navy; President of the Naval Postgraduate School for tuition; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "workforce-and-expertise",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-16",
    "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-16/",
    "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": "Tuition receipts are retained to defray instruction costs and specifically identified in school records. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-16/#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-16/#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": "This is bounded admission to instruction, not a general company training grant or guaranteed seat."
}