# National Security Economic Theory (NASCENT) Proposers Day

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- Solicitation number: DARPA-SN-26-29
- Notice type: Special notice
- Status: Closed. Deadline was February 9, 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 21, 2026
- Last posted: January 21, 2026
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/a1e31888dab24044a83508625d3a5493/view

## Description

The National Security Economic Theory (NASCENT) program will aim 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

- January 21, 2026: Special notice, due February 9, 2026. Notice a1e31888dab24044a83508625d3a5493. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/a1e31888dab24044a83508625d3a5493/view

## Points of contact

- Solicitation Coordinator, NASCENT@darpa.mil

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