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Industrial capacity, capital and credit

Match an industrial bottleneck to demand commitments, credit, third-party investment support, facility expansion or coordination tools.

Groups can overlap. Counts are records, not distinct statutory powers. Executing roles below are routing leads, not verified delegations.

Different deal shapes, different limits. OSC capital assistance is not an unrestricted equity fund. DPA priority rating is mobilization authority, not nationalization. Compare loans, guarantees, offtake, grants and third-party investment →

For public industrial-policy program context, see the Acquisition & Sustainment profile.

6 records

Contracts & purchases

What this group is not: A contract or purchase tag is not general lending or equity authority; priorities, purchase commitments and financing-cost treatment remain distinct routes.

Basis: ACQ-35, ACQ-41, IND-01, IND-55

Example limit · IND-01: Does not cover employment contracts

Recorded executing roles: DoD program and warranted contracting officials applying authorized ratings; resource-agency allocation officials; Assigned DPA Title III executing office and warranted contracting officer; current assignment must be verified; WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer; Covered-contract contracting and pricing teams under implemented pilot; Office of Expanded Competition Director

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IND-01 · Industrial priorities and allocations

Prioritize defense contracts and allocate scarce industrial resources

Require capable suppliers to accept and prioritize national-defense orders and allocate materials, services, and facilities. This is economic mobilization authority, not a general nationalization power.

What this is not / limit: Does not cover employment contracts

Executing role: DoD program and warranted contracting officials applying authorized ratings; resource-agency allocation officials

Contracts & purchases
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProcess sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

IND-04 · Industrial purchase commitments

Underwrite industrial capacity through purchases, offtake commitments and targeted subsidies

Purchase industrial resources or critical technology items for use or resale, encourage mining, and support production or technology transition; conditioned subsidies can sustain threatened high-cost domestic material sources.

What this is not / limit: Commitments generally no more than 10 years

Executing role: Assigned DPA Title III executing office and warranted contracting officer; current assignment must be verified

Contracts & purchases
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScale documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
EngagementProcess sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

USD(A&S) and WIRE/IBAS program office is the routing lead; current assignment must be verified. The recorded DPA executing role remains distinct from the IBAS program.

IND-15 · Industrial purchase commitments

Create durable demand through industrial-base offtake commitments

Make purchase commitments for federal use or resale, critical-mineral development, components, production capacity and dual-use technology transition.

What this is not / limit: Commitment term no more than 10 years

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Contracts & purchases
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

IND-18 · Industrial innovation pilot

Use a time-limited industrial innovation pilot for credit and third-party debt/equity investment

An uncodified pilot expressly lists loans, guarantees, purchase commitments, cost-sharing and third-party awards supporting debt/equity investment in small/medium manufacturers.

What this is not / limit: Express third-party equity support does not establish unlimited direct Treasury equity acquisition

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Investment & capital

Editorial cross-list: the recorded pilot summary also names credit and purchase commitments. An operating program and new awards are not verified.

Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

IND-55 · Contractor financing-cost recovery

Allow covered private borrowing costs in production and sustainment contracts

A discretionary pilot permits reasonable market-rate interest, bond discounts and capital refinancing costs to become allowable and allocable direct or indirect costs for covered inventory-management and capacity-expansion contracts. The financing is supplied by an independent financing entity; this is not a new DoD direct-loan or guarantee program.

What this is not / limit: No authorization of financing-cost treatment for covered contracts entered on or after Dec.31,2029

Executing role: Covered-contract contracting and pricing teams under implemented pilot

Contracts & purchases
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

OEC-05 · Vital-asset development

Accelerate vital-asset development, construction, procurement and leasing

Identify, accelerate and sustain vital tangible and intangible national-security assets through establishment, research, development, construction, procurement, leasing, consolidation, alteration, improvement, modernization and repair.

What this is not / limit: The office duty does not state a blanket exemption from fiscal, acquisition, leasing or military-construction requirements.

Executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director

Contracts & purchasesProperty & leases
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScope documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

6 records

Loans & guarantees

What this group is not: A loan or guarantee is not equity, and a loan tag may describe lending materials or equipment rather than cash.

Basis: IND-03, IND-09, IND-21, INT-22

Example limit · IND-02: Not general banking authority; applies to identified defense shortfalls

Recorded executing roles: Assigned DPA Title III executing office and warranted contracting officer; current assignment must be verified; OSC Director and credit transaction team; WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer; Office of Expanded Competition Director

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IND-02 · Industrial credit

Guarantee private loans for defense production capacity

The President may authorize a guaranteeing procurement agency to guarantee private-institution loans supporting essential defense production and services.

What this is not / limit: Not general banking authority; applies to identified defense shortfalls

Executing role: Assigned DPA Title III executing office and warranted contracting officer; current assignment must be verified

Loans & guarantees
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScale documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

USD(A&S) and WIRE/IBAS program office is the routing lead; current assignment must be verified. The recorded DPA executing role remains distinct from the IBAS program.

IND-03 · Industrial credit

Make direct loans to private enterprises for productive capacity

Finance defense-related capacity, processes and essential materials, including exploration, development and mining, through DPA direct loans.

What this is not / limit: Not equity or unrestricted corporate rescue

Executing role: Assigned DPA Title III executing office and warranted contracting officer; current assignment must be verified

Loans & guarantees
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScale documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
EngagementUse documented
Actor sources & routing basis

USD(A&S) and WIRE/IBAS program office is the routing lead; current assignment must be verified. The recorded DPA executing role remains distinct from the IBAS program.

IND-08 · Technology credit

Finance or refinance dual-use critical technology with OSC direct loans

Provide loans for eligible investments in enumerated covered technology categories; the legal form is capital assistance, not an unrestricted equity fund.

What this is not / limit: Not an unrestricted equity fund.

Executing role: OSC Director and credit transaction team

Loans & guarantees
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScale documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

IND-09 · Technology credit

Guarantee private loans for OSC-eligible investments

OSC can guarantee loans for eligible investments with established private-lender rates, stated guaranteed principal percentage and credit controls.

What this is not / limit: Guarantee is not purchase of stock

Executing role: OSC Director and credit transaction team

Loans & guaranteesInvestment & capital
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScale documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

IND-18 · Industrial innovation pilot

Use a time-limited industrial innovation pilot for credit and third-party debt/equity investment

An uncodified pilot expressly lists loans, guarantees, purchase commitments, cost-sharing and third-party awards supporting debt/equity investment in small/medium manufacturers.

What this is not / limit: Express third-party equity support does not establish unlimited direct Treasury equity acquisition

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Investment & capital

Editorial cross-list: the recorded pilot summary also names credit and purchase commitments. An operating program and new awards are not verified.

Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

OEC-06 · Capital-assistance support

Help DoD provide loans, loan guarantees and technical assistance

Help DoD provide capital assistance to entities, including foreign entities, whose investments facilitate the Department's efforts. The statutory definition covers loans, loan guarantees and technical assistance.

What this is not / limit: Helping DoD provide assistance is not verification of an independently operating OEC direct-loan or guarantee program.

Executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director

Loans & guarantees
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScope documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

6 records

Investment & capital

What this group is not: This group includes coordination and third-party awards; the tag does not confer a general direct government stock-purchase power.

Basis: IND-11, IND-13, IND-18, INT-10

Example limit · IND-09: Guarantee is not purchase of stock

Recorded executing roles: OSC Director and credit transaction team; WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer; Office of Expanded Competition Director

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IND-09 · Technology credit

Guarantee private loans for OSC-eligible investments

OSC can guarantee loans for eligible investments with established private-lender rates, stated guaranteed principal percentage and credit controls.

What this is not / limit: Guarantee is not purchase of stock

Executing role: OSC Director and credit transaction team

Loans & guaranteesInvestment & capital
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScale documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

IND-11 · Capital coordination

Convene public/private capital and vet agency investment transactions

A National Security Capital Forum connects financiers, firms, partner nations and agencies and acts as a clearinghouse for potential loan/equity transactions by agencies with their own authorities.

What this is not / limit: Forum coordination is not itself authority to buy equity or obligate another agency’s money

Executing role: OSC Director and credit transaction team

Investment & capital
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScale documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

IND-13 · Intermediated industrial investment

Award funding to third-party investment entities for small and medium firms

Make awards to intermediaries supporting investments in small/medium entities working in defense-interest areas that benefit DoD missions.

What this is not / limit: This text expressly authorizes third-party investment awards; it does not expressly enumerate a general direct government equity portfolio

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Investment & capital
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

IND-18 · Industrial innovation pilot

Use a time-limited industrial innovation pilot for credit and third-party debt/equity investment

An uncodified pilot expressly lists loans, guarantees, purchase commitments, cost-sharing and third-party awards supporting debt/equity investment in small/medium manufacturers.

What this is not / limit: Express third-party equity support does not establish unlimited direct Treasury equity acquisition

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Investment & capital

Editorial cross-list: the recorded pilot summary also names credit and purchase commitments. An operating program and new awards are not verified.

Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

OEC-03 · Investment funding

Fund investments in critical technologies and assets

Fund investments in the critical technologies and assets identified for the Joint Force, including supply-chain technologies not always supported through direct investment.

What this is not / limit: This is an express investment-funding duty, not merely coordination; the subsection does not specify an unrestricted direct-equity portfolio or particular financing instrument.

Executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director

Investment & capital
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScope documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

OEC-04 · Scouting and investment coordination

Coordinate technology scouting and acquisition investment decisions

Support outreach and coordination by DoD scouting and acquisition elements so their investment decisions can counter adversarial capital flows, including use of relevant authorities vested elsewhere in DoD or the Federal Government.

What this is not / limit: Coordination does not automatically transfer another component's authority or authorize OEC to sign its awards.

Executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director

Investment & capital
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScope documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

1 records

Grants & cooperative agreements

What this group is not: These are purpose-limited awards, not general economic-development funding or interchangeable grant and contract labels.

Basis: ACQ-02, IND-12

Example limit · IND-12: Purpose-limited supply-chain program, not general economic development

Recorded executing roles: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

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IND-12 · Industrial capacity assistance

Fund supply-chain capacity and workforce through grants and agreements

Use contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and other transactions; provide private-sector incentives to create, maintain, protect, expand or restore essential domestic industrial-base capabilities. Express eligible uses include workforce, facilities and production infrastructure.

What this is not / limit: Purpose-limited supply-chain program, not general economic development

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Grants & cooperative agreements
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

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Other statutory tools

What this group is not: These pathways do not supply interchangeable powers or funds; each retains its own purpose, procedures and exclusions.

Basis: ACQ-43, FIN-01, FIN-11

Example limit · IND-05: Does not convey an unrestricted real-estate investment mandate

Recorded executing roles: Assigned DPA Title III executing office and warranted contracting officer; current assignment must be verified; MARAD Office of Sealift Support for VISA enrollment; DoD activates enrolled capacity under program arrangements.; OSC Director and credit transaction team; WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer; Office of Expanded Competition Director

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IND-05 · Industrial facilities and equipment

Install industrial equipment and improve government or private plants

Procure/install government-owned equipment in government and private industrial facilities; modify or expand private facilities and transfer installed equipment under express DPA terms.

What this is not / limit: Does not convey an unrestricted real-estate investment mandate

Executing role: Assigned DPA Title III executing office and warranted contracting officer; current assignment must be verified

Other statutory tools
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScale documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

USD(A&S) and WIRE/IBAS program office is the routing lead; current assignment must be verified. The recorded DPA executing role remains distinct from the IBAS program.

IND-06 · Industry coordination

Organize supervised voluntary industry agreements with limited antitrust defense

Establish voluntary agreements and plans for defense preparedness, with statutory safeguards that can protect conforming actions from antitrust liability.

What this is not / limit: No general immunity for industry coordination

Executing role: MARAD Office of Sealift Support for VISA enrollment; DoD activates enrolled capacity under program arrangements.

Other statutory tools
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProcess sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

Correction is scoped to the documented program example, not an exclusive delegation for every use of the statute. These program offices are not in this directory; the record-specific page links their public sources.

IND-10 · Financial technical assistance

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.

What this is not / limit: Fees may not pay DoD civilian salaries/expenses or unrelated activities

Executing role: OSC Director and credit transaction team

Other statutory tools
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScale documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

IND-14 · Market-shaping incentives

Offset market manipulation and sustain strategic-material supplies

Provide subsidies to offset market manipulation; use conditioned material subsidy payments, including loss-making resale or purchase commitments, for specified supply risks.

What this is not / limit: No covered-country source subsidies under §4817(i)(3)

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Other statutory tools
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

IND-16 · Industrial infrastructure

Construct and improve private or government industrial facilities

Expressly procure/install equipment, construct private facilities, modify production processes, transfer government equipment and construct facilities for eligible supply chains.

What this is not / limit: No free-standing commercial real-estate speculation authority

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Other statutory tools
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

IND-17 · Industrial supply resilience

Qualify substitutes, restrict sourcing to reliable sources and create reserves

Support material/component substitutes and production incentives; use reliable-source restrictions, stockpiles, reserves and lead-time planning. Excess acquired materials may transfer to National Defense Stockpile without acquisition reimbursement.

What this is not / limit: No blanket waiver of acquisition restrictions

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Other statutory tools
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

OEC-01 · Adversarial-capital assessment

Assess adversarial capital flows into defense-relevant businesses

Assess investments from governments of adversary countries, or entities organized under their laws or otherwise subject to their jurisdiction, in industries or businesses of interest to DoD, in consultation with other DoD and Federal components.

What this is not / limit: Assessment is not a standalone power to block investments, compel disclosures, or exercise CFIUS authority.

Executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director

Other statutory tools
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScope documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

OEC-02 · Critical-technology prioritization

Prioritize critical technologies and assets needing capital assistance

Identify and prioritize promising critical technologies and assets for the Joint Force that need capital assistance, including those available from foreign entities.

What this is not / limit: Prioritization is not an award, loan approval, or proof that a proposed recipient is eligible for a particular instrument.

Executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director

Other statutory tools
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScope documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

OEC-05 · Vital-asset development

Accelerate vital-asset development, construction, procurement and leasing

Identify, accelerate and sustain vital tangible and intangible national-security assets through establishment, research, development, construction, procurement, leasing, consolidation, alteration, improvement, modernization and repair.

What this is not / limit: The office duty does not state a blanket exemption from fiscal, acquisition, leasing or military-construction requirements.

Executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director

Contracts & purchasesProperty & leases
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScope documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

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

1 records

Security & information

What this group is not: Information and security tools do not create general police or commercial-investigation powers, or unrestricted release of protected data.

Basis: IND-07, IND-07, INT-36, INT-37, INT-42

Example limit · IND-07: Not a general counterintelligence search or law-enforcement warrant power

Recorded executing roles: Commerce BIS/SIES Defense Industrial Base Division for the documented §4555 survey; recipient submissions follow the survey letter and 15 CFR 702.

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IND-07 · Industrial-base information

Compel industrial information needed to administer DPA authorities

Obtain reports, inspect records, and issue subpoenas for information necessary to administer or enforce the DPA.

What this is not / limit: Not a general counterintelligence search or law-enforcement warrant power

Executing role: Commerce BIS/SIES Defense Industrial Base Division for the documented §4555 survey; recipient submissions follow the survey letter and 15 CFR 702.

Security & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProcess sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

Correction is scoped to the documented program example, not an exclusive delegation for every use of the statute. These program offices are not in this directory; the record-specific page links their public sources.

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