Fund multistakeholder innovation partnerships and allocate DIU project funding
- Objective
- Develop a technology
- Family / instrument
- Research, innovation and experimentation · Innovation partnerships
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Director, Defense Innovation Unit
- Executor · routing lead
- DIU and selected Service innovation organization
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Partnership addresses defense/security needs and has technology-transfer or commercialization objective.
Use lawful underlying instrument for the particular support.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
DIU funding available for the project; underlying instrument controls payments and accountability.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Liaison to investors or support for commercialization is not itself blanket stock-purchase or lending authority.
- Service project allocation does not certify recipient office’s contracting delegation.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.
Actor sources
- DIU Work With Us — mission customer, liaison, funding and prototype execution
- 10 U.S.C. 4127 — statutory director responsibilities
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.