# Future Program: National Security Economic Theory (NASCENT)

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- Solicitation number: DARPA-SN-26-26
- Notice type: Special notice
- Status: Closed. Deadline was February 28, 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: January 9, 2026
- Last posted: January 9, 2026
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/87e62585a51e4b639702692f87e9ff1d/view

## Description

The National Security Economic Theory (NASCENT) program will 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 warfare.

## Publications

- January 9, 2026: Special notice, due February 28, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST. Notice 2b0b062860d245f3854344423816b65e. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/2b0b062860d245f3854344423816b65e/view
- January 9, 2026: Special notice, due February 28, 2026. Notice 87e62585a51e4b639702692f87e9ff1d. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/87e62585a51e4b639702692f87e9ff1d/view

## Points of contact

- Solicitation Coordinator, NASCENT@darpa.mil

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