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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.

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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.
EngagementOffice routes listedOffice-level information only; audiences and application status vary. This does not establish intake for this instrument.

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.

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

Legal basis

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.
EngagementOffice routes listedOffice-level information only; audiences and application status vary. This does not establish intake for this instrument.

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.

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