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IND-10 / Industrial capacity, capital and credit

Support financial structuring, due diligence and credit servicing

Provide technical assistance to OSC applicants/recipients; charge limited transaction fees, accept specified professional services, and use other agencies’ personnel/facilities by agreement.

Authority / instrument · IND-10

Financial technical assistance

Industrial capacity, capital and credit

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

OSC Director

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Fees may not pay DoD civilian salaries/expenses or unrelated activities

Recorded executor

OSC Director and credit transaction team

Continue to actor →

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingScale documentedSubject to appropriations; fees deposited into Credit Program Account with no-year availability but restricted purposes. 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.
EngagementRelated evidenceCredit diligence and support, and a live provider-side counsel call, are documented. Law-firm selection is separate from company financing and statutory technical assistance. Program check: 2026-10-04; see each route for intake status.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

Mission goalExpand production
Possible toolIND-10 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: OSC Director

Other statutory tools

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.

Program process and intake

Checked 2026-10-04 · process documented. Program evidence is separate from legal authority, available funds and transaction approval.

Credit diligence and support, and a live provider-side counsel call, are documented. Law-firm selection is separate from company financing and statutory technical assistance.

OSC transaction support for applicants/recipients

Who this route serves
Applicants invited into transaction diligence and existing recipients; not a standalone technical-assistance grant.
Administering office / routing lead
Office of Strategic Capital credit and legal teams
Unverified

Section 149(e)(3)(B), (e)(12), (f)–(g) supplies the assistance/fee framework; section 906 amended administrative provisions.

What this evidence label means
Transaction process documented

Support is embedded in credit transactions; a separate generally open public technical-assistance intake was not verified.

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

Funding and financial terms

Exclusions and limits

Authority relationship source

Public Law 119-60 · Sections 867 and 906statute · published 2025-12-18 · Evidence record

OSC existing-applicant process →

existing-applicant routing: Existing credit applicants/recipients, not a public technical-assistance award application.

OSC Transaction Counsel Services — provider selection

Who this route serves
Qualified law firms with complex equipment, corporate or project-finance experience; provider-side opportunity.
Administering office / routing lead
Office of Strategic Capital
Related process

Concrete transaction-support implementation; each underlying credit or investment still needs its own legal authority.

What this evidence label means
Published provider submission window

Deadline extended to December 31, 2026; consult the September-posted call and any later amendment.

Status reference date: 2026-10-04 · research checked 2026-10-04

OSC production homepage · September 28, 2026 transaction-counsel extension announcementofficial program guidance · Evidence record

Program eligibility

Steps and preparation

Funding, limits and authority relationship

Funding and financial terms

Exclusions and limits

Authority relationship source

OSC Transaction Counsel Call for Submissions — September posting · Main call pp.1–2; Annex A sections I–V, pp.3–7solicitation or program notice · published 2026-09 · Evidence record

Transaction counsel call and submission requirements →

professional-service provider submission: Law firms only; not project financing or an applicant grant.

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.

What remains unverified

  • No standalone public applicant technical-assistance program verified.
  • Confirm each transaction’s fee agreement, scope and governing authority; a counsel call cannot establish an equity program.

A dated source check is not continuing monitoring. Recheck the linked official notice before preparing a submission. Browse program research →

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Assistance tied to eligible investments
  • Fees limited to specified credit-administration and third-party transaction costs
  • Other-agency consent for shared services

Limits & exclusions

  • Fees may not pay DoD civilian salaries/expenses or unrelated activities
  • New technical assistance ends Oct. 1, 2028; servicing/fees on outstanding loans continue as provided

Funding conditions

  • Subject to appropriations; fees deposited into Credit Program Account with no-year availability but restricted purposes.
  • 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

Resources

Approval

Execution

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 pathway

Requirement 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 documentedSubject to appropriations; fees deposited into Credit Program Account with no-year availability but restricted purposes. 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.
EngagementRelated evidenceCredit diligence and support, and a live provider-side counsel call, are documented. Law-firm selection is separate from company financing and statutory technical assistance. 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.