Scholarship For Service (SFS)
Program Internet Site
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
10/29/2024
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
11/30/2024
3,165
761
647
761
24,724
12,442
The Scholarship For Service (SFS)
Program was established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in
accordance with Presidential Directive 63 and the Federal Cyber
Service Training and Education Initiative as described in the
President's National Plan for Information Systems Protection. The
Internet Site will register program students, agency officials,
principal investigators, and program administrators; provide the
ability for students to create and maintain online resumes; provide
Federal agency officials access to student resumes for placement
opportunities; provide placement status reports; and overall system
support and maintenance by program administrators.
Each year NSF awards grants to
additional universities to use for scholarships under the SFS
program which increases the number of students that receive
scholarships, and consequently, the number of scholars that need to
be monitored through the completion of their service commitment.
Each student awarded a scholarship must register their profile and
resume with the SFS website for the successful facilitation of
their placement with a government agency, and they must maintain
up-to-date profile and employment information through program
completion. Additionally, the previous data collection only
included new scholars registering with the SFS portal, and it did
not include the IT system costs. IT costs, and the requirement for
scholars to provide annual employment verification and to maintain
an up-to-date profile, have been captured in this submission in
addition to the information collected from academic and agency
officials.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.