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ACQ-56 / Acquisition, transition and contract finance

Request DIU commercial-technology adoption and integration support through BOOST

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.

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At a glance

Possible toolACQ-56 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: DIU Director establishes and executes program; Secretary of Defense issues guidance

Other statutory tools

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • 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 & exclusions

  • Program and statutory authorities expire December 31,2030.
  • Does not itself waive requirements of the underlying contract, OT or funding instrument.

Funding conditions

  • Expressly subject to appropriations; DIU amounts authorized for this purpose may be used; current availability not verified.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Requesting portfolio acquisition executive, program manager or product support manager

Resources

  • DIU appropriations made available for BOOST; customer program resources as needed

Approval

  • DIU Director under required guidance; instrument-specific award officials

Execution

  • DIU and coordinated development, experimentation or integration teams

Partners & review

  • Rapid Innovation Program, SBIR/STTR offices, urgent-acquisition organizations and customer contracting offices

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

PAE/program/product support manager request → DIU technology review → coordinated development or integration with related transition programs → funded program adoption.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

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.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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