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National Security Innovation Network
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Budget figures
$21.2M one-time reconciliation. Discretionary change vs FY2025 enacted: -100.0%.
Two official figures, one label— reconciled below
Fiscal Receipts uses P-1/R-1 workbook total obligation authority (TOA) as the headline figure sitewide. The workbook TOA includes budget rows that the R-2/P-40 J-book program line excludes — advance procurement in an ordinary year, and in FY2026 the one-time reconciliation appropriation as well. Each row below names the one it is. How the two bases relate →
FY26 Request · $21.2M TOA − $2.26M J-book line = 18.9M (21.2 − 2.3 = 18.9) — $21.2M of one-time FY2026 reconciliation money accounts for this gap — not advance procurement
Figures in the sentence are rounded for reading; the parenthesised arithmetic is the same subtraction in USD millions, at the precision where it closes.
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $21.2M |
| FY25 | $1.59M |
| FY26 | $21.2M |
All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $37.7M | $38.5M | $34.9M | $77.0M | $21.2M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $40.0M | $40.0M | $36.2M | $79.3M | $21.6M | $1.59M | |
| Request | – | – | $25.0M | $0 | $21.3M | $22.0M | $21.6M | $21.3M | $21.2M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $22.0M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $77.0M as actual total obligation authority — $55.0M above the request. 77.0 − 22.0 = 55.0 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Mission — National Security Innovation Network
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. On April 4, 2023, the Secretary of Defense issued a memorandum re-aligning the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Director as a direct report to the Secretary of Defense. In July 2023, the DIU Director announced a reorganization that integrated NSIN into DIU to maximize strategic impact. The Regional Network Team is responsible for building the networks of innovators. The physical network is spread across regions spanning the Continental United States and reaching out to Hawaii and Alaska. Regional engagement activities are led by Regional Directors supported by additional Regional Network Team members able to reach into critical venture innovation centers throughout the country including: Boston, MA; New York City, NY; Washington, DC; Orlando, FL; Chicago, IL; St. Louis, MO; Austin, TX; Denver, CO; Seattle, WA; San Diego, CA; and San Francisco, CA. Additional members of the Regional Network Team currently include Regional Engagement Principals (REPs) that are embedded in - and have responsibility for - critical innovation ecosystems within each region including universities and other tech hubs. This team will be integrated with DIU’s commercial and regional engagement efforts to reduce duplication, strengthen national outreach, and foster cross-pollination of activities across the technological maturity spectrum. DIU will strengthen pathways for talent to serve and facilitate access to early-stage companies to engage with the Department through the following programmatic portfolios: The Talent Portfolio provides opportunity for individuals outside the traditional federal talent pipeline to serve our country and solve real-world national security, technology, and policy challenges. By bridging the gap between students, academics, and entrepreneurs to engage with the Department of Defense (DoD), DIU is helping build a deep bench of diverse, qualified civilian and military workers to preserve our competitive emerging technology advantage with resilient personnel trained for the unpredictable global operating environment. The Venture Portfolio develops and executes programs and services to facilitate access to emerging technology as it engages the talents of fast-moving innovators and non-traditional problem-solvers. The Venture Portfolio works directly with dual-use early-stage ventures emerging from both the academic and venture community who have solutions that address DoD problems. The Venture Portfolio creates advantage for defense innovation through customer discovery and solution adoption. This programmatic activity is supported through other enterprise functions that measure programmatic impact, support follow-on activities by alumni, and help share broader information about the network.
Mission — National Security Innovation Network
DIU will execute a range of programs and activities to enhance DoD’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.
Mission — National Security Innovation Network
DIU will execute a range of programs and activities to enhance DoD’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.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)
National Security Innovation Network (NSIN)
Following the FY 2023 reorganization, DIU and NSIN will take on the mission to build networks of innovators that generate new solutions to national security problems. DIU will continue ongoing efforts to develop and execute programs that engage these networks to solve the problems of Department of Defense (DoD) entities from the Military Services, Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Defense Agencies, and Field Activities.
National Security Innovation Network (NSIN)
Following the FY 2023 reorganization, DIU and NSIN will take on the mission to build networks of innovators that generate new solutions to national security problems. DIU will continue ongoing efforts to develop and execute programs that engage these networks to solve the problems of Department of Defense (DoD) entities from the Military Services, Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Defense Agencies, and Field Activities.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY24 Actuals | $21.2M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY25 Enacted | $1.59M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY25 Total | $1.59M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY26 Reconciliation | $21.2M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY26 Total | $21.2M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $188.1M | $21.2M | $1.59M | $2.26M | $2.26M |
| 439: National Security Innovation Network | $0 | $10.8M | $1.59M | $2.26M | $2.26M |
| 845: National Security Innovation Network | $188.1M | $10.4M | — | — | — |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
| District | Program obligations |
|---|---|
| DC-98 | $77.8M |
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| ECCALON, LLC | HQ003418F0572 | high |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not National Security Innovation Network. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J927
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2020 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J869
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2020_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2021 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J934
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2021_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2022 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J910
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2022_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J885
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2023_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J882
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J904
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.