---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2200b"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2200b"
heading: "Grant program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2200b"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 112 — Cyber Scholarship Program"
---

# §2200b. Grant program

- (a) **Authority.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may provide grants of financial assistance to institutions of higher education to support the establishment, improvement, or administration of [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) of education in [cyber](/usc/10/2200e.md?p=1) disciplines referred to in [section 2200(a) of this title](/usc/10/2200.md?p=a).
- (b) **Purposes.—** The proceeds of grants under this section may be used by an [institution of higher education](/usc/10/2199.md?p=2) for the following purposes:
  - (1) Faculty development.
  - (2) Curriculum development.
  - (3) Laboratory improvements.
  - (4) Faculty research in information security.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title IX, § 922(a)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–235; amended Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title XVI, § 1649(d)(1)(D), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1753.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–91 substituted “cyber disciplines” for “information assurance disciplines”.