National Guards and other units, as part of the Army, are outside the control of civilian agencies and are activated following their own chains of command. (politics.stackexchange.com)
«GDIT is positioned to deliver cost - effective, next - generation IT solutions and services to the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and federal civilian agencies as they modernize their information systems.» (defensenews.com)
With NIH, NSF, and other civilian agencies already losing ground to inflation and on notice that the coming years will bring significant budget cuts, competition for grant money is likely to increase, perhaps sharply. (sciencemag.org)