Number: RL31643
Title: National Security Education Program: Background and Issues
Authors: Wayne C. Riddle, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there has been increased congressional interest in the NSEP and other federal programs of aid for critical foreign language and area studies. Several bills passed in the 107th and 108th Congressional sessions that would have altered the NSEPs funding and administration. In addition, the intelligence reform bill (P.L. 108-458) signed by the President on December 17, 2004, amends Title X of the National Security Act to create a new Intelligence Community Scholarship Program (ICSP) that is quite similar to the NSEP (1042). This report provides background information on the NSEP and an analysis of related issues including the ICSP.
Pages: 13
Date: January 21, 2005