DEVCOM hires professionals, recent graduates and interns, and participates in a variety of Army, Department of Defense and federal scholarship, internship, apprenticeship, graduate and fellowship programs. Some of these are:
Army Educational Outreach Program – Apprenticeships and Fellowships
Advance your education and career by joining a team that makes scientific discoveries and develops technologies that support America’s innovation goals. AEOP apprentices (high school, undergraduate) and AEOP fellows (graduate, post-doctoral) conduct real-world, Army-sponsored research alongside scientists and engineers in world-class facilities. Whether you are seeking a summer, semester, or long-term STEM research and career development opportunity, AEOP has a program for you. For more information, visit https://www.usaeop.com/apprenticeships-fellowships/.
Department of Defense Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship Program
This program offers scholarships for students pursuing bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in STEM. While in school, students will receive full tuition, monthly stipends, health insurance and book allowances, as well as summer internships that range from 8 to 12 weeks. Upon degree completion, scholars begin working in a civilian position with their sponsoring facility. For more information, visit https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart?id=smart_index.
Defense Civilian Training Corps
The Defense Civilian Training Corps (DCTC) is a congressionally-mandated talent development program that provides a multidisciplinary, active-learning curriculum with summer internship projects at DoD organizations. DCTC is a highly selective pilot program that provides a 100% tuition scholarship and two-year curriculum with a project-based summer internship that prepares scholars for direct pathway into DoD acquisition-related careers. For more information, visit https://www.dctc.mil.
CyberCorps – Scholarship for Service
The CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program is designed to recruit and train the next generation of information technology professionals, industrial control system security professionals and security managers to meet the needs of the cybersecurity mission for federal, state, local and tribal governments. This program provides scholarships for up to three years of support for cybersecurity undergraduate and graduate (M.S. or Ph.D.) education. In return for their scholarships, recipients must work for the U.S. government after graduation in a position related to cybersecurity for a period equal to the length of the scholarship. For more information, visit https://www.sfs.opm.gov/.
Pathways Intern Program
Designed to provide students enrolled in a wide variety of educational institutions with opportunities to work in agencies and explore federal careers while getting paid for work performed. Students who successfully complete the program may be eligible for conversion to a permanent job in the civil service. For more information, visit https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/students-recent-graduates/#url=Overview.
Pathways Recent Graduate Program
The Pathways Recent Graduate Program provides developmental experiences in the U.S. Federal government for individuals who graduated from qualifying educational institutions within the past two years with an associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral or other professional degree, or a vocational or technical certificate. For more information, visit
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/students-recent-graduates/#url=Overview.
Presidential Management Fellows Program
The Presidential Management Fellows Program offers a prestigious two-year opportunity in the federal government working on various assignments at different agencies. Individuals who have completed a qualifying advanced degree such as a master’s or other professional degree within the past two years are eligible to apply. For more information, visit https://www.pmf.gov/.
Department of Defense Historically Black Colleges & Universities and Minority Institutions Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
This program provides faculty of HBCU/MI summer placement opportunities in one of the Army laboratories to conduct joint research projects with Army laboratory scientists. The primary goal is to help build in-house research capacity by exposing faculty to cutting-edge scientific work they can take back to their campuses to improve curriculum, research products and student outcomes. For more information, visit https://orau.org/usre/.
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program
The NDSEG Fellowship Program a highly competitive, portable fellowship that is awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one of 15 supported disciplines. The NDSEG Fellowship Program confers high honors upon its recipients who choose the U.S. institution they wish to attend. The program lasts three years, pays full tuition and all mandatory fees, a monthly stipend, and up to $1,000 USD a year in medical insurance (dental and vision insurances are not included). For more information, visit https://www.ndseg.org/.