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Defense Civilian Training Corps
Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $0J-book detail · PB2026 |
| FY25 | $27.1MR-1 TOA · PB2026 |
| FY26 | $8.75MR-1 TOA · PB2026 |
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|
| Enacted | $27.1M | |
| Request | $27.1M | $8.75M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Mission — Defense Civilian Training Corps
The FY 2026 request for DCTC includes $8.752 thousands of discretionary and $0 thousands of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $8.752 thousands. The Defense Civilian Training Corps (DCTC) program is directed by 10 U.S.C. Ch 113 with the purpose to prepare selected students for public service and meet critical skill gaps in acquisition, digital and critical technologies, science, engineering, finance, and other civilian occupations determined by the Secretary of Defense. Chapter 113 requires the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (USD(A&S)), to establish units at any accredited civilian educational institution authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees. Using Chapter 113 direction and FY 2023 and FY 2024 DCTC appropriated funding, both an add by Congress (the PB23 and PB24 request did not include a request for DCTC funding), the USD(A&S) initiated in August 2023 a pilot two-year (junior and senior) program preparing future acquisition and sustainment civilians, with four DCTC pilot units deployed at four universities. The first DCTC cohort was comprised of 85 undergraduate scholars who started DCTC in August 2023 and graduated May 2025.. The second DCTC cohort started in August 2024 and is comprised of 100 undergraduate scholars (juniors). The third cohort was selected in December 2024 and graduates in May 2027. The DCTC pilot program is completed and ends with graduation of the third cohort. The DCTC program provides scholar education and development through DoD-context undergraduate classes and DoD real-world challenge projects sponsored by DoD field organizations which also host project-based summer internships with mentoring. DCTC classes cover DoD mission, structure and functions, the defense acquisition system and functions, innovation and technical literacy. The DCTC program includes completion of scholar security clearances and use of hiring authorities at graduation for immediate placement in jobs at DoD organizations. DCTC strengthens the DoD talent (supply-side) pipeline with new-hire DoD civilians, prepared for DoD acquisition and sustainment mission careers, accelerated in development and readiness for public service and contributing day-one as national security professionals to the DoD acquisition and sustainment mission. Again, the DCTC pilot program is completed and ends with graduation of the third cohort.
Mission — Defense Civilian Training Corps
The Defense Civilian Training Corps (DCTC) program is directed by 10 U.S.C. Ch 113 with the purpose to prepare selected students for public service and meet critical skill gaps in acquisition, digital and critical technologies, science, engineering, finance, and other civilian occupations determined by the Secretary of Defense. With the requested FY 2026 funding, DoD will continue the two-year DCTC acquisition and sustainment-focused education and development program, piloting with the four universities and testing model improvements.
Justification
No accomplishments or planned-program narratives in this line's J-book detail — some exhibits carry figures without per-project prose.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY25 Enacted | $27.1M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY25 Total | $27.1M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY26 Disc. Request | $8.75M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY26 Total | $8.75M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $55.0M | $0 | $27.1M | $8.75M | $8.75M |
| 852: Defense Civilian Training Corps | $55.0M | $0 | $27.1M | $8.75M | $8.75M |
Follow the dollar
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | HQ003423F0237 | medium |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | HQ003425FE252 | medium |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Defense Civilian Training Corps. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · M1053
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · L1027
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.
RDTE OSD PB 2026 · comptroller.war.gov
PDF page 1287