{
  "id": "ACQ-56",
  "category": "Transition & scaling",
  "capability": "Request DIU commercial-technology adoption and integration support through BOOST",
  "summary": "Portfolio acquisition executives, program managers and product support managers can request DIU assistance identifying, adopting and integrating commercial technologies into programs of record or fielded capabilities.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §1833",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted public law, not a pending bill."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "DIU Director establishes and executes program; Secretary of Defense issues guidance",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Requesting portfolio acquisition executive, program manager or product support manager"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "DIU appropriations made available for BOOST; customer program resources as needed"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "DIU Director under required guidance; instrument-specific award officials"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DIU and coordinated development, experimentation or integration teams"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Rapid Innovation Program, SBIR/STTR offices, urgent-acquisition organizations and customer contracting offices"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DIU Work With Us — mission customer, liaison, funding and prototype execution",
      "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us"
    },
    {
      "title": "P.L. 119-60 §1802 / 10 U.S.C. 1732 — portfolio plans, budgets, execution and reporting chain",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Request identifies a program or fielded-capability adoption/integration need.",
    "DIU reviews candidate technologies and, upon request, executes coordinated development, experimentation or integration; termination criteria apply."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Program and statutory authorities expire December 31,2030.",
    "Does not itself waive requirements of the underlying contract, OT or funding instrument."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Expressly subject to appropriations; DIU amounts authorized for this purpose may be used; current availability not verified."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "PAE/program/product support manager request → DIU technology review → coordinated development or integration with related transition programs → funded program adoption.",
  "availability": "Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.",
  "confidence": "High on express authority and cited conditions; execution assignment is illustrative unless statute expressly names it.",
  "currentness": "P.L. 119-60 §1833 read directly; guidance required within 90 days after December 18,2025; guidance issuance and live program implementation not verified.",
  "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": []
}