Pentagon’s 2025 industry investments target space, biochem and more
By Courtney Albon
Jan 3, 2025, 02:55 PM
The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital released its investment strategy for fiscal 2025, which focuses on technology areas like biomanufacturing and microelectronics. (Josep Lago/AFP)
The Pentagon’s strategic capital office will focus its 2025 investments on 15 industry segments it thinks could most support U.S. national security needs, including spacecraft, microelectronics materials and manufacturing and biochemicals.
The office released its fiscal 2025 investment strategy Thursday, offering a snapshot of its priorities for the coming year.
“Investments will be prioritized based on their national security impacts, defined as those that provide the United States and/or its allies and partners with robust competitive advantage relative to strategic competitors,” the document states.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin established the Office of Strategic Capital in 2022 to help direct private sector capital to defense technologies. The following year, Congress gave the organization authority to offer loans and loan guarantees to companies.
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