# National Security Education Program, National Flagship Language Initiative; Advanced Language Institutional Grants Pilot Program
**AGENCY:**
Department of Defense.
**ACTION:**
Notice.
**SUMMARY:**
The National Security Education Program (NSEP) announces a special competition for Advanced Language Institutional Grants under a pilot program. The competition is administered for NSEP by the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC), University of Maryland.
**DATES:**
Grant Solicitations will be available online beginning Monday, April 1, 2002. Proposals must be received no later than Wednesday, May 15, 2002. Electronic submissions will not be accepted.
**ADDRESSES:**
Obtain copies of the solicitation, beginning April 1, 2002 via Internet at *http://www.nfl.org.* Requests for copies of the proposal to those who are unable to obtain copies through the Internet should be directed by email to NFLC at: *[email protected]>mailto: [email protected]>* or by fax: 301-403-1754.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Dr. Thomas W. Gething, Deputy Director, National Foreign Language Centers, 7100 Baltimore Avenue, #300, College Park, Maryland 20742; Electronic mail address: *tgething @nflc. org<mailto: [email protected]>*
Dated: March 25, 2002.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.