National Security Innovation Capital (NSIC) - Commercial Acceleration Opportunity (CAO)

nologies which have both commercial and national security applications. NSIC funding will enable companies to further develop their products, reducing future technical risk and time to market and increasing prospects for private investment. NSIC provides funds to hardware startups which have achieve

d Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 or higher. Under the authority of 10 U.S.C. � 4022 (2022) (previously 10 U.S.C 2371b), NSIC seeks to award Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs) to early-stage technology startups at various stages of prot