Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) for the DoD Office of Strategic Capital (OSC)
Posted
May 1, 2025
Apr 30, 2035
The DoD Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) issued a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) to attract and scale private capital for technologies critical to U.S. national security, seeking commercial solutions and partnerships (including loans and loan guarantees). The CSO uses a two-phase whitepaper/proposal process to evaluate innovations and can result in FAR-based contracts or non-FAR agreements under authorities including 10 U.S.C. 3458 and 4022. The CSO is open for a ten-year term (individual Areas of Interest may have their own terms); there is no single response deadline on the notice and the posting lists an archive date of 2035-04-30.
