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[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
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  January 2, 2001 and January 28, 2002]
[CITE: 10USC2360]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
                  CHAPTER 139--RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
 
Sec. 2360. Research and development laboratories: contracts for 
        services of university students
        
    (a) Subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose, 
the Secretary of Defense may procure by contract under the authority of 
this section the temporary or intermittent services of students at 
institutions of higher learning for the purpose of providing technical 
support at defense research and development laboratories. Such contracts 
may be made directly with such students or with nonprofit organizations 
employing such students.
    (b) Students providing services pursuant to a contract made under 
subsection (a) shall be considered to be employees for the purposes of 
chapter 81 of title 5, relating to compensation for work injuries, and 
to be employees of the government for the purposes of chapter 171 of 
title 28, relating to tort claims. Such students who are not otherwise 
employed by the Federal Government shall not be considered to be Federal 
employees for any other purpose.
    (c) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations to carry 
out this section. Such regulations shall include definitions for the 
purposes of this section of the terms ``student'', ``institution of 
higher learning'', and ``nonprofit organization''.

(Added Pub. L. 97-86, title VI, Sec. 603(a), Dec. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 
1110.)
