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[CITE: 10USC2194]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                    PART III--TRAINING AND EDUCATION
 
 CHAPTER 111--SUPPORT OF SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION
 
Sec. 2194. Education partnerships

    (a) The Secretary of Defense shall authorize the director of each 
defense laboratory to enter into one or more education partnership 
agreements with educational institutions in the United States for the 
purpose of encouraging and enhancing study in scientific disciplines at 
all levels of education. The educational institutions referred to in the 
preceding sentence are local educational agency, colleges, universities, 
and any other nonprofit institutions that are dedicated to improving 
science, mathematics, and engineering education.
    (b) Under a partnership agreement entered into with an educational 
institution under this section, the director of a defense laboratory may 
provide, and is encouraged to provide, assistance to the educational 
institution by--
        (1) loaning defense laboratory equipment to the institution for 
    any purpose and duration in support of such agreement that the 
    director considers appropriate;
        (2) notwithstanding the provisions of the Federal Property and 
    Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.) or any 
    provision of law or regulation relating to transfers of surplus 
    property, transferring to the institution any computer equipment, or 
    other scientific equipment, that is--
            (A) commonly used by educational institutions;
            (B) surplus to the needs of the defense laboratory; and
            (C) determined by the director to be appropriate for support 
        of such agreement;

        (3) making laboratory personnel available to teach science 
    courses or to assist in the development of science courses and 
    materials for the institution;
        (4) involving faculty and students of the institution in defense 
    laboratory research projects;
        (5) cooperating with the institution in developing a program 
    under which students may be given academic credit for work on 
    defense laboratory research projects; and
        (6) providing academic and career advice and assistance to 
    students of the institution.

    (c) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the director of each 
defense laboratory shall give a priority under this section to entering 
into an education partnership agreement with one or more historically 
Black colleges and universities and other minority institutions referred 
to in paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) of section 312(b) \1\ of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1058(b)).
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    (d) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that, in entering into 
education partnership agreements under this section, the director of a 
defense laboratory gives a priority to providing assistance to 
educational institutions serving women, members of minority groups, and 
other groups of individuals who traditionally are involved in the 
engineering and science professions in disproportionately low numbers.
    (e) In this section:
        (1) The term ``defense laboratory'' means any laboratory, 
    product center, test center, depot, training and educational 
    organization, or operational command under the jurisdiction of the 
    Department of Defense.
        (2) The term ``local educational agency'' has the meaning given 
    such term in section 14101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
    Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801).

(Added Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title II, Sec. 247(a)(1), Nov. 5, 1990, 
104 Stat. 1522; amended Pub. L. 103-382, title III, Sec. 391(b)(4), Oct. 
20, 1994, 108 Stat. 4021; Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title XV, 
Sec. 1503(a)(19), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 512; Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 
[[div. A], title II, Sec. 253], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-
49.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, 
referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, 63 Stat. 
377, as amended. The surplus property provisions of that Act are 
classified to chapter 10 (Sec. 471 et seq.) of Title 40, Public 
Buildings, Property, and Works. For complete classification of this Act 
to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 471 of Title 40 
and Tables.
    Paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) of section 312(b) of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1058(b)), referred to in subsec. (c), 
were repealed by Pub. L. 102-325, title III, Sec. 302(a)(3), July 23, 
1992, 106 Stat. 472.


                               Amendments

    2000--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title II, 
Sec. 253(a)(1)], inserted ``, and is encouraged to provide,'' after 
``may provide'' in introductory provisions.
    Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title II, 
Sec. 253(a)(2)], inserted before semicolon ``for any purpose and 
duration in support of such agreement that the director considers 
appropriate''.
    Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title II, 
Sec. 253(a)(3)], added par. (2) and struck out former par. (2) which 
read as follows: ``transferring to the institution defense laboratory 
equipment determined by the director to be surplus;''.
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title II, 
Sec. 253(b)], amended subsec. (e) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. 
(e) read as follows: ``In this section, the term `local educational 
agency' has the meaning given such term in section 14101 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801).''
    1996--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104-106 substituted ``(20 U.S.C. 8801)'' 
for ``(20 U.S.C. 2891(12))''.
    1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-382, Sec. 391(b)(4)(A), substituted 
``educational agency'' for ``education agencies''.
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 103-382, Sec. 394(b)(4)(B)(iii), which directed 
amendment of subsec. (e) by striking out ``(20 U.S.C. 1058(b)'' could 
not be executed because ``(20 U.S.C. 1058(b)'' does not appear in 
subsec. (e).
    Pub. L. 103-382, Sec. 391(b)(4)(B)(i), (ii), substituted 
``educational agency'' for ``education agency'' and ``section 14101'' 
for ``section 1471(12)''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 15 section 3715.
