---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 462"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "462"
heading: "Financial assistance to certain employees in acquisition of critical skills"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/462"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 22 — National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency"
  - "Subchapter III — Personnel Management"
---

# §462. Financial assistance to certain employees in acquisition of critical skills


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may establish an undergraduate [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) with respect to civilian employees of the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) that is similar in purpose, conditions, content, and administration to the [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) established by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense under section 16 of the [National Security](/usc/10/801.md?p=16) Agency Act of 1959 ([50 U.S.C. 3614](/usc/50/3614.md)) for civilian employees of the [National Security](/usc/10/801.md?p=16) [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–108, title V, § 504(a), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1405; amended Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title IX, § 921(d)(2)(A), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1568; Pub. L. 113–291, div. A, title X, § 1071(c)(9), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3509.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–291 substituted “(50 U.S.C. 3614)” for “(50 U.S.C. 402 note)”.

2003—Pub. L. 108–136 substituted “National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency” for “National Imagery and Mapping Agency”.