Co-fund procurement technical assistance and APEX specialized support for businesses
- Objective
- Expand production
- Family / instrument
- Industrial capacity, capital and credit · Procurement technical assistance
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
- Executor · routing lead
- Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Use an eligible entity defined by §4951, not an unrestricted grant directly to any company.
Apply §4954 cost shares and authorized waivers, §4955 funding ceilings and exceptions, and the special covered-small-business definition in §4959.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Chapter 388 assistance funds subject to statutory caps and shares; amended §4955(e) allows acceptance and use of other federal agency funds for execution and administration.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
This is technical-assistance funding, not a general business loan, procurement award, export license, or security clearance.
- National APEX center-of-excellence reach under amended §4958(d) does not eliminate eligibility or fiscal restrictions.
Implementation caution: Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.
Actor sources
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.