Future Program: National Security Economic Theory (NASCENT)
Dept of Defense · DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
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- Response deadline
- Feb 28, 2026, 11:59 PM EST
- Posted
- Jan 9, 2026
- Solicitation
- DARPA-SN-26-26
- Set-aside
- None listed
- Place of performance
- —
- Contracting office
- DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY · ARLINGTON · VA
- Source
- SAM.gov · updated Jul 5, 2026
Description
The National Security Economic Theory (NASCENT) program will establish a principled theoretical foundation for geoeconomics, enabling evidence-based economic statecraft and defining a rigorous scholarly field of quantitative geoeconomics. The program seeks to achieve the following objectives: - Test the technical hypothesis that economic mechanism design, computer science formal methods, and experimental economics can be combined to construct a robust scientific framework for geoeconomics - Prevent strategic surprise by building the methodologies and tools necessary to both anticipate and mitigate unintended consequences of economic warfare.
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