10 USC § 2200e - Definitions

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s2200e"
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title: "10 USC § 2200e - Definitions"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "2200e"
section_name: "Definitions"
chapter_number: 112
chapter_name: "CYBER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM"
part_number: "III"
part_name: "TRAINING AND EDUCATION"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title IX, § 922(a)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–236; amended Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title XVI, § 1649(c), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1752.)"
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# § 2200e. Definitions

In this chapter:

**(1)** The term “cyber” includes the following:

**(A)** Offensive cyber operations.

**(B)** Defensive cyber operations.

**(C)** Department of Defense information network operations and defense.

**(D)** Any other information technology that the Secretary of Defense considers to be related to the cyber activities of the Department of Defense.

**(2)** The term “institution of higher education” has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).

**(3)** The term “Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Education” means an institution of higher education that is designated by the Director of the National Security Agency as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Education.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title IX, § 922(a)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–236; amended Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title XVI, § 1649(c), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1752.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2017— amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section defined “information assurance”, “institution of higher education”, and “Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education”.