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New DoD Strategic Capital Office Outlines Initial Programs To Leverage Private Investment

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, March 17th, 2023

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New DoD Strategic Capital Office Outlines Initial Programs To Leverage Private Investment

Dr. Jason Rathje, director, Office of Strategic Capital, Department of Defense. LinkedIn photo

The Defense Department’s new Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) has stood up its first program designed to leverage private capital to help drive investment in critical technologies for national defense that frequently are being overlooked in favor of areas where returns can be generated more quickly such as e-commerce, the OSC chief said last Friday. The first program is aimed at creating long-term capital for investment funds to invest in the critical technologies that DoD has identified. The Small Business…

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