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Industrial capacity, capital and creditIND-04
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.
Contracts & purchases
Industrial capacity, capital and creditIND-08
Provide loans for eligible investments in enumerated covered technology categories; the legal form is capital assistance, not an unrestricted equity fund.
Loans & guarantees
Industrial capacity, capital and creditIND-09
OSC can guarantee loans for eligible investments with established private-lender rates, stated guaranteed principal percentage and credit controls.
Loans & guaranteesInvestment & capital
Industrial capacity, capital and creditIND-12
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.
Grants & cooperative agreements
Industrial capacity, capital and creditIND-13
Make awards to intermediaries supporting investments in small/medium entities working in defense-interest areas that benefit DoD missions.
Investment & capital
Industrial capacity, capital and creditIND-14
Provide subsidies to offset market manipulation; use conditioned material subsidy payments, including loss-making resale or purchase commitments, for specified supply risks.
Other statutory tools
From critical-material shortfall to reliable production
- Service/COCOM defines the defense demand; IBP and DLA validate the supply-chain problem.
- Choose the eligible capacity, credit, stockpile or purchase-commitment mechanism—do not conflate them.
- Match the mechanism to the appropriation and funds vintage; check CR and FY2026 §867 constraints.
- Assemble technical diligence, required findings, security/sourcing review and award authority.
- Connect output to a qualified defense buyer, sustainment demand and performance oversight.
A producer, a financing instrument and a purchase contract may require different offices and legal predicates.
Five independent checks
Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked
These are questions to resolve, not a sequence of approvals or an automatic readiness score.