DARPA launches effort to build economic statecraft framework

DARPA launches effort to build economic statecraft framework

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking proposals for a new research effort aimed at building a scientific foundation for economic statecraft, marking the latest step in a chain of programs that began with logistics analytics and evolved into supply-chain economic modeling. On Feb. 23, the agency published a solicitation for the National Security Economic Theory (NASCENT) program, which aims to develop a quantitative framework f…