About ATAP
The Acquisition Tuition Assistance Program (ATAP) is designed to fund business/acquisition related individual college courses or business/acquisition related college courses required for a master’s or bachelor’s degree in a business/acquisition related discipline to eligible Army acquisition workforce members. The ATAP is a fiscal year (Oct-Sep) program that provides tuition, laboratory and technology fees, within limits, to Army Acquisition Workforce (AAW) civilians, Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) 51 Contracting (51C) Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs), and flexible length and renewable term technical appointment employees in the Department of Defense laboratories designated as Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories (STRLs).
Army Acquisition workforce civilians and MOS 51C NCOs must upload a correctly completed Service Agreement signed by employee and supervisor as part of the application process.
Participants must obtain at least a grade of “B” in each graduate course and at least a “C” in each undergraduate course and individual course not toward a degree seeking program. Participants are required to repay the Federal Government for tuition costs, laboratory and technology fees associated with each class that does not meet the grade standards. Participants are in the program until they complete their educational pursuits or administratively removed from the program.
Who May Apply:
- Army Acquisition Workforce (AAW) civilians
- Department of Defense (DOD) laboratories designated as Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories (STRLs)
- Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) 51 Contracting (51C) Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs)
Call for Applications:
Policy and Procedures:
Eligibility:
Applicants pursuing individual college courses not towards a degree must:
- Be coded as “1-Permanent – Tenure Group 1” in the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System
- Meet certification level required for current position or be within their certification grace period
Applicants pursuing courses towards a bachelor’s degree must:
- Be coded as “1- Permanent -Tenure Group 1” in the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System
- Meet certification level required for current position or be within their certification grace period
- Not have a bachelor’s degree in a technical, acquisition or business discipline
- Be fully accepted into a business, technical or acquisition bachelor’s degree discipline with a declared major at a nationally or regionally accredited university or college
Applicants pursuing courses towards a master’s degree must:
- Be coded as “1- Permanent -Tenure Group 1” in the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System
- Meet certification level required for current position or be within their certification grace period
- Be fully accepted into a business, technical or acquisition master’s degree discipline with a declared major at a nationally or regionally accredited university or college
- May currently possess a master’s degree in a technical, acquisition, or business discipline if pursuing a second acquisition-related master’s degree.
Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) 51 Contracting (51C) Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) must:
- Not have a bachelor’s degree in an acquisition, technical or business discipline if pursuing a bachelor’s degree (required certification level met not required)
- Meet certification level required for their current position or be within their certification grace period
- Be fully accepted into a bachelor’s or master’s degree discipline with a declared major at a nationally or regionally accredited university or college of choice
DOD laboratories applicants designated as STRL pursuing individual college courses, a bachelor’s or master’s degree in an acquisition or business discipline must: (Note: Term employees not appointed under Section 1109, FY16 NDAA are not eligible to apply to the ATAP):
- Term employees (STRL) applicants must have enough time remaining left in term position as outlined on a current Standard Form 50 in block 5-B
- Meet certification level required for the current position or be within their certification grace period
- Be flexible length or renewable term technical appointment employees in the Department of Defense laboratories designated as STRLs
- Not have a bachelor’s degree in an acquisition or business discipline if pursuing a bachelor’s degree
- Be fully accepted into an acquisition, technical or business bachelor’s or master’s degree discipline with a declared major at a nationally or regionally accredited university or college
Funding Limits:
Master’s degree:
- $3,000 per course including laboratory and technology fees
- $15,000 per FY
Bachelor’s degree:
- $2,500 per course including laboratory and technology fees
- $12,500 per FY
Individual technical, acquisition, or business-related courses not toward a degree:
- $2,500 per course including laboratory and technology fees
- $12,500 per FY
The ATAP participant is responsible for all fees that are not laboratory or technology fees.
Resources:
Continued Service Agreement (CSA):
AAW civilians and MOS 51C NCOs can obtain a copy of the CSA by clicking here.
MOS 51C NCOs must contact SFC Summer Mcmahon, 51C Proponent NCO, at email, summer.l.mcmahon.mil@army.mil, or SFC Arthur (Art) Dominguez, 51C Proponent NCO, at email, arthur.j.dominguez2.mil@army.mil to inform them of intent to apply.
FAQs
Contact:
Uhura N. Smith
Acquisition Training and Education Manager
Email: uhura.n.smith.civ@army.mil
In addition, you may contact your Acquisition Career Manager at the following: https://apps.asc.army.mil/camp/index.cfm?fuseaction=support.helpRequest
