Guarantee loans for defense-critical firms’ infrastructure protection
- Objective
- Expand production
- Family / instrument
- Industrial capacity, capital and credit · Critical-infrastructure credit
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense
- Executor · routing lead
- Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Verify significant U.S. R&D/engineering/manufacturing, qualifying ownership or foreign-parent conditions, critical DoD technology/services, cyberterrorism-prevention standards, and recipient reports.
Use only advance appropriations authority for the extent and amount of guarantees.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
No open program, current appropriation, or presently accepting application office is verified.
- Aggregate principal guaranteed in a fiscal year is capped at $10 million across all borrowers.
- Exposure and administrative fees, transferrability, applicable guarantee limitations, program regulations, and reporting requirements apply.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProgram unverified
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. Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.
Actor sources
- 10 U.S.C. §4981: statutory holder and conditions
- 10 U.S.C. §4982: statutory holder and conditions
- 10 U.S.C. §4983: statutory holder and conditions
- 10 U.S.C. §4984: statutory holder and conditions
- 10 U.S.C. §4985: statutory holder and conditions
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