§8477 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of the Navy can allow the Academy Superintendent to accept competitive research grants when an Academy professor or instructor will do the work for scientific, literary, or educational purposes. Grant money must go into a special account and be spent under the grant terms and applicable rules. Congress-approved funds may pay grant-application costs when allowed, and the Secretary will write rules to run the program. Qualifying grant: a competitively awarded grant for scientific, literary, or educational research. Eligible source: a foundation, school, corporation, or similar group set up mainly for those purposes.

Title 10, §8477

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(a)The Secretary of the Navy may authorize the Superintendent of the Academy to accept qualifying research grants under this section. Any such grant may only be accepted if the work under the grant is to be carried out by a professor or instructor of the Academy for a scientific, literary, or educational purpose.

(b)A qualifying research grant under this section is a grant that is awarded on a competitive basis by an entity referred to in subsection (c) for a research project with a scientific, literary, or educational purpose.

(c)A grant may be accepted under this section only from a corporation, fund, foundation, educational institution, or similar entity that is organized and operated primarily for scientific, literary, or educational purposes.

(d)The Secretary shall establish an account for administering funds received as research grants under this section. The Superintendent shall use the funds in the account in accordance with applicable regulations and the terms and conditions of the grants received.

(e)Subject to such limitations as may be provided in appropriations Acts, appropriations available for the Academy may be used to pay expenses incurred by the Academy in applying for, and otherwise pursuing, award of a qualifying research grant.

(f)The Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe regulations for the administration of this section.

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2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6977 of this title as this section.

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of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

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and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

§8477 Grants for faculty research for scientific, literary, and educational purposes: acceptance; authorized grantees

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Title 10, §8477

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