Area of Interest for the DoD Office of Strategic Capital (OSC): Increasing Access to Data and Effective Knowledge Management
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- Solicitation number
- HQ003425OSC001
- Agency
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Washington Headquarters Service
Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Place of performance
- Arlington, Virginia, United States
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Defense's Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) is seeking innovative solutions to improve data access and knowledge management for national security technology development. Under 10 U.S.C. 4022, OSC is targeting commercial solutions that can enhance its mission of attracting and scaling private capital for critical technologies. The solicitation focuses on four primary areas: credit-based financial tools for technology investment, teaming with private capital investors to co-develop critical technologies, identifying technologies from emerging international companies, and exemplary risk management. White papers are due by 5:00 PM (EDT) on May 26, 2025, and must be submitted to cso@osc.mil. Eligible companies must deliver technical capabilities matching the Area of Interest (AOI) description and satisfy Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) procedures.
The solicitation is not set aside for any specific designation and is open to a broad range of potential contractors in the research and development sector, specifically within NAICS category 541715 for research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences. The place of performance is Arlington, VA, and the government will evaluate all submissions, including those partially or fully produced outside the USA. Solutions should be mature enough for potential deployment within 30 days of award, with partnerships and teaming arrangements encouraged. While specific award values are not explicitly stated, the solicitation indicates a two-phase selection process to identify prototype solutions that can advance national security technology development. The contract falls under the Product Service Code AC32 for National Defense R&D Services, focusing on defense-related applied research activities.
Notice text
The Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) mission is to attract and scale private capital for national security. Successful execution of this mission requires consistent access to credible and accurate data, and the means to be able to effectively manage available knowledge and drive decision speed to the irreducible minimum. Our national defense and our prosperity depend on it.
The Department of Defense itself is a knowledge management firm that defines, redefines, and manages a system of exceedingly complex systems to support decision making. OSC has an operational need for access to specialized data necessary to understand and influence conditions that drive risks to national and economic security, and innovative technologies for compiling, assessing, and managing the data under management. Simplicity is paramount, and the ability to efficiently access and make sense of the vast amounts of data available will be the difference between success or failure.
Using the authority in 10 U.S.C. § 4022, OSC seeks to drive rapid prototype development of solutions to limiting factors impairing its ability to execute its mission to attract and scale private capital for component-level technologies with broad commercial application that are also relevant to the national security of the United States and its allies and partners.
OSC seeks solutions in one or more of the four areas of primary focus:
- Effective use of credit-based financial tools to attract and scale investment in enabling and frontier technologies,
- Teaming with private capital investors to co-develop critical technologies (i.e., technologies identified by the Department of Defense as vital to the national security of the United States and its allies and partners),
- Identification of critical technologies developed by emerging international companies, and
- Exemplary risk management.
See the attached Area of Interest for further information.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| HQ003425OSC001 Area of Interest Amendment 001.docx | DOCX document | |
| HQ003425OSC001 Area of Interest.docx | DOCX document |
Notice history
| Notice | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Area of Interest for the DoW Office of Strategic Capital (OSC): Back-Office Modernization | Solicitation | |
| CANCELED - Area of Interest for the Office of Strategic Capital (OSC): Defense Industrial Venture Engagement | Solicitation | |
| This notice | Solicitation | |
| Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) for the DoD Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) | Special Notice |
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