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ACQ-23 / Workforce and expertise

Contract directly for university students’ temporary technical services

Obtain temporary/intermittent student technical support for defense R&D laboratories, directly or through nonprofit employers.

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At a glance

Possible toolACQ-23 · Contracts & purchases
Legal basis10 U.S.C. §4143

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense

Contracts & purchases

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Student and institution meet implementing definitions; services are technical support at defense R&D laboratory.

Limits & exclusions

  • Specified workers-compensation and tort-claims employee status only; not general federal employee status.
  • Not an unrestricted personal-services contract exception for all professionals.

Funding conditions

  • Expressly subject to appropriations for this purpose.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Laboratory technical manager

Resources

  • Laboratory research budget owner

Approval

  • Authorized agency contracting official under Secretary of Defense regulations/delegation
    Office profile

Execution

  • Laboratory and student or nonprofit employing students

Partners & review

  • University; laboratory HR/counsel

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Lab identifies time-limited support → student/nonprofit eligibility → contracting office → lab supervision and liability review.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

  • 10 U.S.C. §4143Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative.

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

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.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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