37 U.S.C. § 315 : US Code - Section 315: Special pay: engineering and scientific career continuation pay

Search 37 U.S.C. § 315 : US Code - Section 315: Special pay: engineering and scientific career continuation pay

(a) In this section, the term "engineering or scientific duty"
means service performed by an officer -
(1) that requires an engineering or science degree; and
(2) that requires a skill designated (under regulations
prescribed by the Secretary of Defense for the armed forces, by
the Secretary of Commerce for the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, or by the Secretary of Health and
Human Services for the Public Health Service) as critical and as
a skill in which there is a critical shortage of officers in the
uniformed service concerned.
(b) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned, an
officer of a (!1) uniformed service who -
(1) is entitled to basic pay;
(2) is below the pay grade of O-7;
(3) holds a degree in engineering or science from an accredited
college or university;
(4) has been certified by the Secretary concerned as having the
technical qualifications for detail to engineering or scientific
duty;
(5) has completed at least three but less than nineteen years
of engineering or scientific duty as an officer; and
(6) executes a written agreement to remain on active duty for
detail to engineering or scientific duty for at least one year,
but not more than four years;
may, upon acceptance of the written agreement by the Secretary
concerned, be paid, in addition to all other compensation to which
the officer is entitled, an amount not to exceed $3,000 multiplied
by the number of years, or monthly fraction thereof, of obligated
service to which the officer agrees under the agreement. The total
amount payable may be paid in a lump sum or in equal periodic
installments, as determined by the Secretary concerned.
(c) An officer who, having entered into a written agreement under
subsection (b) and having received all or part of a bonus under
this section, does not complete the period of active duty as
specified in the agreement shall be subject to the repayment
provisions of section 303a(e) of this title.