Define campaign needs and integrate capabilities into plans and operations. FY2026 §873 authorizes experimentation, prototyping and technology demonstrations addressing command operational needs; a commander’s post-demonstration written determination may satisfy specified noncompetitive-acquisition justification and capability-need requirements. This authority sunsets September 30, 2028.
What this office does not control
Do not infer unrestricted industrial financing or general procurement funds from combatant command. Identify the actual account, contracting support and any special statute.
Counts are matches to names and explicit aliases within the original role labels. They are routing leads, not appointment, warrant or delegation evidence.
DIU can support joint research/innovation partnerships with funding, resources, participation and technical advice, and allocate its available funds to selected Service innovation projects.
Respond to documented combat, contingency or cyber deficiencies through accelerated acquisition/deployment; specified determinations unlock bounded use of available funds and selected legal waivers.
Use contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and other transactions; provide private-sector incentives to create, maintain, protect, expand or restore essential domestic industrial-base capabilities. Express eligible uses include workforce, facilities and production infrastructure.
Provide subsidies to offset market manipulation; use conditioned material subsidy payments, including loss-making resale or purchase commitments, for specified supply risks.