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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

National Security Innovation Network

PE 0603950D8Z·Defense-Wide·Approp. 0400 — RDT&E·BA3 — Advanced Technology Development
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
Defense-Wide · RDT&E
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Defense-Wide requests $0.0M in FY2027.

FY2027 Request
$0.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$1.6M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, Defense-Wide agencies are requesting $0.0M for National Security Innovation Network under RDT&E program element 0603950D8Z, against nothing enacted in FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031

Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.

01.6FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED0.0FY27REQUEST0.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual1.6
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request0.0
FY2028Outyear0.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 3 — Advanced Technology Development.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Current
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Later
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0603950D8Z

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year.

Project 439

National Security Innovation Network

$0.0MFY2027 request
FY2025 actual$1.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M

DIU will execute a range of programs and activities to enhance DoW’s access to technologists and entrepreneurs for the purposes of improving its talent pool, enable collaboration with universities and the early-stage venture community to develop novel concepts and solutions for end-user problems and requirements, and prototype and test new technologies to place them on the path to becoming programs of record or integrated with existing platforms.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
National Security Innovation Network (NSIN)
FY2025 actual$1.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M

FY2025 accomplishments Under the reorganization, this initiative will: •Establish a coherent front-door for dual-use and emerging technology companies to access the Department of Defense in partnership with the Office of Small Business Programs and Service innovation organizations. •Expand successful outreach pilots to HBCU/MSIs •Strengthen the talent pipeline to serve our country and solve real-world national security, technology, and policy challenges. •Facilitate and accelerate global exchange of commercial technology and expertise via prize challenges, dual-use accelerator programming, and other programming.

Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

This program supports the Department’s initiatives to Build a Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage and Build a Resilient Joint Force and Defense Ecosystem. The National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) activities build networks of innovators that generate new solutions to national security problems. The FY 2026 spend plan amount for 0603950D8Z includes $0 of discretionary and $21,202 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $21,202 thousand.

Project 439 — National Security Innovation Network
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FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0603950D8Z (President's Budget PB2027).
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