At a glance
Possible toolIND-09 · Loans & guarantees
Authority holder: OSC Director, within Secretary of Defense program authority
Loans & guaranteesInvestment & capital
Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.
Availability and verificationConditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.
Program process and intake
Checked 2026-10-04 · implementation not verified. Program evidence is separate from legal authority, available funds and transaction approval.
Guarantee authority and enacted credit funding are established; the researched public OSC offerings are direct loans, not a verified guarantee application program.
OSC loan guarantees — statutory authority, no separate current offering verified
- Who this route serves
- Potential eligible credit recipients/lenders; current guarantee-specific applicant class and intake not verified.
- Administering office / routing lead
- Office of Strategic Capital
UnverifiedStatutory OSC guarantee authority is recorded in section 149(e)(3); operational product terms remain to be verified.
What this evidence label means Guarantee implementation not verifiedEquipment Finance and NSFF are documented direct-loan offerings. No separate current OSC guarantee application was verified in these production program materials.
Status reference date: 2026-10-04 · research checked 2026-10-04
OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024 · 89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8federal register notice · published 2024-09-27 · Evidence record Program eligibility
Steps and preparation
Funding, limits and authority relationship
OSC program information →
reference / status: No guarantee-specific application route verified; do not label Apply.
Source access and verification notes
Research scope and sources checked
The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute.
- 10 U.S.C. 149 — Office of Strategic Capital · 2024 edition (GovInfo) · Subsections (e)–(h); original record plus amendments reviewedstatute · Evidence record
- OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024 · 89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8federal register notice · published 2024-09-27 · Evidence record
- OSC Equipment Finance · Application status; eligibility and exclusions; application processofficial program guidance · Evidence record
- OSC Investment Fund Financing · National Security Fund Finance; Small Business Investment Company Critical Technology Initiativeofficial program guidance · Evidence record
- SBIC Critical Technology Initiative Investment Policy Statement · January 10, 2025 IPS, sections 1, 3.1–3.5 and 4; PDF pp.3,5,8–16official program guidance · published 2025-01-10 · Evidence record
- Public Law 119-75 · Division A, Department of Defense Credit Program Account and section 8134statute · published 2026-02-03 · Evidence record
What remains unverified
- Find a guarantee-specific NOFO, eligibility terms, underwriting/process guidance and published intake before calling the product open.
- SBICCT is documented separately under IND-08; it must not fill this guarantee-evidence gap.
A dated source check is not continuing monitoring. Recheck the linked official notice before preparing a submission. Browse program research →
Dated program and routing context
OSC loan guarantees
OSC describes both loan and guarantee authority. A current guarantee-specific application process was not verified in the sources reviewed. The Equipment Finance first-round closure does not establish a universal guarantee closure.
Use the guarantee instrument’s published terms; do not import the direct-loan 80% nonfederal-capital requirement as a blanket guarantee-percentage rule.
Research gap, not a finding that OSC has no guarantee authority or program. NSFF and SBICCT are distinct fund-manager pathways.
Public-source check: 2026-10-04. This check does not refresh the entire legal record.
Funding conditions
- Specific credit subsidy and principal authority in appropriations; DoD Credit Program Account and Federal Credit Reform Act.
- Enacted FY26 credit appropriation $97.770M no-year with $4.390B principal ceiling. FY25 reconciliation separately supplied $500M minerals-focused and $1B general capital-assistance funding through Sep.30,2029, each with $100B principal ceiling. These are statutory amounts, not remaining balances; do not simply add ceilings into deployable cash.
Read the funding and execution guide
Who contributes what
Need & planning
- OSC investment and credit teams
Office profile - Technology and acquisition requirement sponsors
Partners & review
- Private lenders and eligible entities
- Treasury / OMB credit-scoring officials
- DoD legal counsel
Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.
Coordination pathwayRequirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.
Actor and execution-role sources
What this research establishes
Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingScale documentedSpecific credit subsidy and principal authority in appropriations; DoD Credit Program Account and Federal Credit Reform Act. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument. Assigned rolesRemit sourcedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent. EngagementIntake unverifiedGuarantee authority and enacted credit funding are established; the researched public OSC offerings are direct loans, not a verified guarantee application program. Program check: 2026-10-04; see each route for intake status. Confidence: High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.
Currentness: 2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.
Review scope: Original research target October 2, 2026; no record-specific last-review date supplied. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.