These fifteen industry segments are where the office has stated it will place particular focus for its credit products. Select one to see how it is defined, who it means in practice, and whether the seat is open. We work with one company per sector — the reasoning is further down this page.
Applications for all fifteen seats close 30 September 2026.
The fifteen segments and their definitions are drawn from the Office of Strategic Capital FY2025 Investment Strategy; definitions are condensed. That document also states that applications across all covered technology categories will be considered — so falling outside these fifteen is not a disqualification. It changes the argument, not the eligibility. Seat status is maintained by Sunstone and reflects our current engagements, not any judgment by the Department.
Four pages, lifted unaltered from the FY2027 President’s Budget. We added a highlight and a margin note. Nothing on the government pages was changed.
Exhibit P-1 is the top-line table showing what each appropriation asks Congress for. Appropriation 0362D is the Defense Strategic Capital Credit Program — the lending program. The number is on printed page 324, and the exhibit states figures in thousands, which is where most people misread it.
Our annotations are the highlight band, the margin note, the banner and the footer stamp. Everything else is the Department’s page as published. Verify the original at comptroller.war.gov — printed pages 323–326. A request to Congress is not enacted money.
Every document behind our case, in one place, linked to the government source. Filter by type. If a claim we make is not on this list, do not believe it.
One source on this page is not a government document. The leverage figure — that the requested $20 billion of subsidy is projected to support roughly $200 billion of lending, an assumed ten-to-one ratio — comes from a Bloomberg Government analyst interviewed by Federal News Network on 14 July 2026. The same analyst calls the assumption optimistic and notes that Congress has preserved the funding but not embraced the expansion. We include both halves.
This is not a sales device. Our client is assessed against the other applicants in its own category — a finite pool, allocated on a comparative judgment of national security impact.
We cannot build that case for two companies making the same thing. Arguing that your capacity matters more than the next firm’s, while arguing the reverse down the hall, is a conflict. It would make us useless to both of you.
So the seat is exclusive, and it goes to whoever qualifies first. When your sector is taken, we will tell you plainly that we cannot help you.
Under this administration the old Washington model stopped working. Firms that tried to purchase goodwill or manufacture new access found the door did not open — this White House is not moved by media campaigns, information operations, or outsiders. Influence runs almost entirely through people who were already known and already trusted before any of this began.
Which is why the second half of what we do is not something we could assemble on request. We work in coordination with the Washington team of a global law firm whose partners were not adjacent to the last administration. They were inside it.
We will not name the firm on a public page. That relationship is not a marketing asset and we do not treat it as one.
And we will not promise you the engagement. Counsel is retained directly by you under its own engagement letter, subject to its own conflicts clearance and client intake, and is under no obligation to accept any matter. Sunstone does not invoice, direct or control that work, and makes no representation on its behalf. What we can tell you is what the capability is — and that it is the reason this works at all.
A screening and suitability assessment. By telephone, with a principal, no deck. You will not be sold anything on this call — the point is to find out quickly whether you clear the Department’s published rules, because most companies do not.
Most companies do not reach step five, and the earlier steps exist to establish that cheaply. If your sector is already committed we will tell you at step one rather than take the meeting.
Most of these conversations end in a no. We would rather establish that in twenty minutes than after you have spent money.
Schedule a screeningEvery February to April, the administration sends Congress a budget request. Exhibit P-1 is the top-line summary table: one line per appropriation, showing what is being asked for. There is no argument in it and no narrative — only numbers.
0362D, the Defense Strategic Capital Credit Program. That is the lending program run by the Office of Strategic Capital. Printed page 324 is the summary; printed page 326 names the line explicitly as the “Office of Strategic Capital Loan Program.”
| Defense Strategic Capital Credit Program | FY27 Discretionary | FY27 Mandatory | FY27 Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01. DIRECT LOAN SUBSIDY | 216,000 | 20,000,000 | 20,216,000 |
One: the units. The exhibit header says “Dollars in Thousands.” So 20,216,000 is $20,216,000,000 — about $20.2 billion, not $20 million.
Two: discretionary versus mandatory. Only $216 million is a normal annual appropriations request. The $20 billion is scored as mandatory spending, which travels on authorizing legislation rather than the yearly defense appropriations bill. That is a different committee, a different vehicle, and a different timeline.
Three: subsidy is not lending volume. The line is titled DIRECT LOAN SUBSIDY. Under federal credit accounting, what gets appropriated is the government’s estimated lifetime cost of the loans, not the loans themselves. The lending it supports depends on an assumed leverage ratio that this exhibit does not print.
It is not money. It is a request. Congress decides, and requested mandatory funding is frequently not enacted. Treat it as the clearest available statement of the administration’s intent for this program — which is exactly why it is worth knowing about before it is settled.
A highlight band over the figures, a margin note, a banner at the top and a stamp at the bottom. The government pages themselves are untouched — no text altered, removed or reworded. Check the original at comptroller.war.gov, printed pages 323 to 326.