<p>Not that I’m aware of. You might work for the feds for several years as a tech, do well, and use that experience to catapult you into a grad program such as the ones at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. I know about a dozen years ago their nursing PHD program began accepting civilian health professionals working in the government and I wonder if other programs there do the same for such civilian federal employees. It’s a very long shot. Is there no way to make up those Ds in OC before you graduate? The DoD also has PhD scholarships thru SMART, but what kind of grades you need to get into that program I can’t begin to guess. Again, perhaps good work experience can mitigate the 2.0 in sciences.</p>