For now, says Office of Strategic Capital director Jason Rathje, his three-month-old office will work through existing programs outside the Defense Department, in hopes of boosting investment in critical tech, especially hardware.
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“OSC was fundamentally established to give the Department of Defense a new tool in our current competition because today the United States… is in a global competition to be a world leader in emerging and critical technologies,” Jason Rathje, OSC director, said, noting they’ll be taking applications for investment later this year.
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