---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3223"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3223"
heading: "Educational scholarship program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3223"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — National Security"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Education in Support of National Intelligence"
  - "Part C — Additional Education Provisions"
---

# §3223. Educational scholarship program


The head of a department or agency containing an element of the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4) may establish an undergraduate or graduate training program with respect to civilian [employees](/usc/50/3164.md?p=4) and prospective civilian [employees](/usc/50/3164.md?p=4) of such element similar in purpose, conditions, content, and administration to the program that the Secretary of Defense is authorized to establish under [section 3614 of this title](/usc/50/3614.md).


## Source credit

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title X, § 1023, as added Pub. L. 111–259, title III, § 312(e)(1), Oct. 7, 2010, 124 Stat. 2664.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 441o of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.