---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6130"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6130"
heading: "Authorization of workforce development and training partnership programs within National Nuclear Security Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6130"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 602 — Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Matters"
  - "Subchapter I — Stockpile Stewardship and Weapons Production"
---

# §6130. Authorization of workforce development and training partnership programs within National Nuclear Security Administration

- (a) **Authority.—** The [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) for Nuclear Security may authorize management and operating contractors at covered [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to develop and implement workforce development and [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) partnership [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) to further the education and [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) of employees or prospective employees of such management and operating contractors to meet the requirements of section 6128.
- (b) **Capacity.—** To carry out [subsection (a)](#a), a management and operating contractor at a covered [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) may provide funding through grants or other means to cover the costs of the development and implementation of a workforce development and [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) partnership [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) authorized under such subsection, including costs relating to curriculum development, hiring of teachers, [procurement](/usc/10/3011.md?p=1) of equipment and machinery, use of [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) or other properties, and provision of scholarships and fellowships.
- (c) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) The term “covered [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2)” means—
    - (A) Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; or
    - (B) the Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina.
  - (2) The term “prospective employee” means an individual who has applied (or who, based on their field of study and experience, is likely to apply) for a position of employment with a management and operating contractor to support plutonium pit production at a covered [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1366.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 3126 of Pub. L. 117–263, which was set out as a note under section 2538a of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(11).