# National Security Economic Theory (NASCENT)

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- Solicitation number: DARPA-PS-26-14
- Notice type: Solicitation
- Status: Closed. Deadline was April 24, 2026
- Department: Department of Defense
- Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Contracting office: Def Advanced Research Projects Agcy (HR0011)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: AC12 National Defense R&D Services; Department Of Defense - Military; Applied Research
- First posted: February 23, 2026
- Last posted: February 23, 2026
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/66d59a7a71484b0ab5985576853de2ff/view

## Description

The National Security Economic Theory (NASCENT) program aims to 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 statecraft.

## Publications

- February 23, 2026: Solicitation, due April 24, 2026. Notice 66d59a7a71484b0ab5985576853de2ff. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/66d59a7a71484b0ab5985576853de2ff/view

## Points of contact

- Solicitation Coordinator, NASCENT@darpa.mil

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