{
  "id": "ACQ-10",
  "category": "Innovation partnerships",
  "capability": "Fund multistakeholder innovation partnerships and allocate DIU project funding",
  "summary": "DIU can support joint research/innovation partnerships with funding, resources, participation and technical advice, and allocate its available funds to selected Service innovation projects.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4127(d)-(f)",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4127&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Director, Defense Innovation Unit",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "DIU with Joint Staff, COCOMs and mission customers"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "DIU funds made available to it"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "DIU Director; instrument-specific awarding approver"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DIU and selected Service innovation organization"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Universities, nonprofits, commercial firms, government partners and investors"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DIU Work With Us — mission customer, liaison, funding and prototype execution",
      "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us"
    },
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. 4127 — statutory director responsibilities",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4127&num=0&edition=prelim"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Partnership addresses defense/security needs and has technology-transfer or commercialization objective.",
    "Use lawful underlying instrument for the particular support."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Liaison to investors or support for commercialization is not itself blanket stock-purchase or lending authority.",
    "Service project allocation does not certify recipient office’s contracting delegation."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "DIU funding available for the project; underlying instrument controls payments and accountability."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "COCOM/Service demand → DIU commercial team → partnership and performer selection → instrument/funding/legal review → Service execution and DIU monitoring.",
  "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": "GovInfo 2024 Code (includes FY2025 NDAA, P.L. 118-159) read in full for cited provision; targeted FY2026 NDAA P.L. 119-60 amendment/repeal sweep. No claim of complete legislative currency through 2026-10-02; remaining 2026 delta needs counsel validation.",
  "family": "Research, innovation and experimentation",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Cooperation & exchanges"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "joint-staff",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "DIU with Joint Staff, COCOMs and mission customers"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "DIU with Joint Staff, COCOMs and mission customers"
    }
  ]
}