Direct-hire laboratory scientists, engineers, students and qualified veterans
- Objective
- Develop a technology
- Family / instrument
- Workforce and expertise · Research workforce
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Directors of designated STRLs; specified research/test directors for covered positions
- Executor · routing lead
- Laboratory HR and appointing official
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Position and candidate must fit scientific/engineering, veteran STEM or student categories.
Annual caps by category based on prior-year filled positions; senior technical positions have separate limits.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Existing laboratory personnel funds; no automatic additional funded billets.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Budget control remains; exclusion from personnel limits does not cover SES or scientific/professional §3104 positions.
- Other preserved civil-service requirements remain.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementUse documented
Program process, audience and dated intake check (2026-10-04)
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.
Actor sources
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.