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The '''Science, Mathematics, And Research For Transformation (SMART) Defense Scholarship Program''' was tested as a program in 2005 under the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. SMART was fully established by the [[National Defense Authorization Act]] for fiscal year 2006, and was assigned to the [[Naval Postgraduate School|Navy Postgraduate School]] [[Naval Postgraduate School|(NPS)]] as the managing agency in late 2005-early 2006.
The '''Science, Mathematics, And Research For Transformation (SMART) Defense Scholarship Program''' was tested as a program in 2005 under the Air
The '''Science, Mathematics, And Research For Transformation (SMART) Defense Scholarship Program''' was tested as a program in 2005 under the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. SMART was fully established by the [[National Defense Authorization Act]] for fiscal year 2006, and was assigned to the [[Naval Postgraduate School|Navy Postgraduate School]] [[Naval Postgraduate School|(NPS)]] as the managing agency in late 2005-early 2006.
 
The SMART scholarship program is a [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] (DoD) workforce development program created to address the growing gap between America and the rest of the world in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. SMART facilitates this goal by recruiting and retaining some of the best and brightest STEM candidates in the nation.