Defense Innovation Acceleration (DIA)

Abstract

This program supports the Department's initiatives to Build a Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage, and Build a resilient Joint Force and Defense Ecosystem. The DIA PE accelerates innovative capability prototypes (TRL 5-7) that address cross-Service/cross-domain military needs in the 24-to-36-month timeframe. Prototype projects are identified through an ideation process that involves Defense-wide participation and detailed physics-based mission analysis to identify impactful capability requirements. Operational and strategic capability gaps are identified through Joint Warfighting Concept aligned mission analysis. DIA focuses on providing prototype systems in support of multi-component experimentation, informing programs of record and validating requirements. DIA prototypes will be evaluated in operationally relevant demonstrations in conjunction with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) Mission Capabilities’ (MC) experimentation events. DIA will also harness small business and non-traditional performer innovation that creates prototypes to address DoD’s modernization challenges.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0603838D8Z_3_0400_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: In FY 2023, Congress consolidated existing prototyping program elements into one program element 0603838D8Z. $290.691 million reflects the transfer of the Defense Modernization and Prototyping (DM&P) 0603338D8Z, the Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) 0603648D8Z, and certain prototyping activities from the Technology Innovation program 0603375D8Z. FY 2024 includes funding re-alignment from DM&P and JCTD and a program adjustment reduction of $5.693 million to support the Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Serving Institutions program, which is a priority of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)), $0.273 million to support departmental priorities, and $1.445 million increase for an economic assumption inflation.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Engineered Resilient Systems (Alumni COI)
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Kinetic Weapons
• Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aircrafts
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Systems
• Cognitive Systems Engineering
• Control Systems
• Information Systems
• Mesh Networks
• National Security
• Neural Networks
• Sensor Networks
• Space Force
• Target Recognition
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
• Warfare

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.