50 U.S.C. § 3224 — Intelligence officer training program

(a)(1) The Director of National Intelligence^* may run grant programs under subsections (b) and (c) to improve recruitment and retention of an ethnically and culturally diverse intelligence-community workforce with skills critical to United States national security.
(2) The Director must identify skills needed for current or emerging intelligence-community needs and the educational fields that provide them.
(b)(1) The Director may grant money to institutions of higher education to establish or continue programs of study in those fields.
(2) The grants may pay for curriculum or program development, faculty development, laboratory equipment or improvements, and faculty research.
(c)(1) The Director may grant money to historically Black colleges and universities, Predominantly Black Institutions, Hispanic-serving institutions, and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions to provide programs in the fields identified under subsection (a)(2) or paragraph (2).
(2) Those programs may be in intermediate or advanced foreign languages immediately important to the intelligence community^*, including Farsi, Pashto, and Middle Eastern, African, and South Asian dialects; and study-abroad or cultural-immersion programs.
(d) An institution seeking a grant must apply, describing the proposed use, at the time and in the manner the Director requires.
(e) A recipient must regularly report on grant use, including (1) benefits to participating students, (2) results and accomplishments of the funded course of study, and (3) other information the Director requires.
(f) The Director must issue regulations needed to carry out this section.
(g) Definitions. (1) “Director” means the Director of National Intelligence. (2) “Historically black college and university” has the meaning of “part B institution” in section 1061 of title 20. (3) “Institution of higher education” has the meaning in section 1001 of title 20. (4) “Predominantly Black Institution” has the meaning in section 1059e of title 20. (5) “Hispanic-serving institution” has the meaning in section 1101a(a)(5) of title 20. (6) “Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution” has the meaning in section 1059g(b)(2) of title 20. (7) “Study abroad program” means a credit or noncredit program of study that (A) occurs outside the United States, (B) focuses on regions important to United States national security and generally underrepresented in higher-education study-abroad programs, including Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and (C) is either for credit or not for credit. This section does not define the quoted cross-referenced terms.