1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Defense Accelerator Network Act of 2018 . 2. National Defense Accelerator Network pilot (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) has spurred investment from private venture capital into businesses and academic institutions, which do not have a traditional relationship with the Department of Defense, that focus on national defense solutions. Since June 2016, seven startups supported by Defense Innovation Unit Experimental have raised close to $720,000,000 in subsequent rounds of private venture capital funding. (2) An innovation ecosystem can be developed based on a hub and spoke network closely aligned to public research universities in partnership with the government and private capital. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) while Defense Innovation Unit Experimental has been able to attract early stage private capital to dual-use start-ups, more needs to be done to re-establish a dual use innovation ecosystem in the United States similar to what was created in the 1950s and early 1960s in radar and microelectronics technologies; (2) this older ecosystem eventually evolved into the globally dominant commercial information technology industry primarily based in Silicon Valley but was initially jump-started based on a partnership between the Government, leading universities, and the private sector