五角大楼和美国小企业管理局（SBA）周一签署了一项新协议，将扩大美国国防工业基地内小企业获取战略资本的渠道。该协议最早由《国会山报》报道，是在八月下旬宣布的“小型战争工厂委员会”（SWPC）的基础上建立的，旨在帮助供应商、创新者和制造商获得更多资本，以加强国内供应链并扩大生产。“小型战争工厂委员会现在将能够向建造我们武装部队依赖的舰船、弹药、微电子、材料、部件和技术的小企业注入战略资本，”国防部长皮特·赫格塞思在一份声明中表示。
The Pentagon and the Small Business Administration (SBA) signed a new agreement on Monday that will expand access to strategic capital for small businesses in the U.S. defense industrial base. The agreement, first reported by The Hill, is building on the Smaller War Plants Commission (SWPC), which was announced in late August, and will aid suppliers, innovators and manufacturers in gaining access to more capital to strengthen domestic supply chains and expand production. “The Smaller War Plants Commission will now be able to surge strategic capital to the small businesses that build the ships, munitions, microelectronics, materials, components, and technologies our warfighters rely on,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a statement.
“战争部和SBA共同致力于恢复支撑美国军事优势的工业主导地位，并通过实力维护和平。”该协议将五角大楼的经济防御单位（EDU）与SBA的投资与创新办公室和资本获取办公室对接。EDU将通过其“国防商务运营商”项目识别有融资需求的企业，并将潜在公司推荐给SBA，SBA将利用其现有的贷款人网络，帮助这些企业获得SBA支持的资金。
“Together, the Department of War and SBA are restoring the industrial dominance that underwrites America’s military advantage and securing peace through strength.”The agreement aligns the Pentagon’s Economic Defense Unit (EDU) with the SBA Office of Investment and Innovation and Office of Capital Access. The EDU will identify firms with financing needs through its Business Operators for National Defense efforts and refer potential companies to SBA, which will leverage its existing lender networks to help connect those firms with SBA-backed funds.
该协议还将允许SBA支持EDU对从事恢复和扩大国家安全所需工业能力的中小企业的投资，包括关键材料、战略和关键金属及矿物的开采以及弹药。“当我们成立小型战争工厂委员会时，我们承诺将联邦政府的全部力量用于支持构成美国国防工业基地70%的小型制造商，”SBA局长凯莉·洛夫勒表示。
The agreement also will allow SBA to back EDU’s investments in small and medium-sized businesses that work on restoring and expanding the industrial capacity necessary for national security, including essential materials, mining of strategic and critical metals and minerals and munitions. “When we established the Smaller War Plants Commission, we committed to putting the full weight of the federal government behind the small manufacturers that comprise 70 percent of America’s defense industrial base,” SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said.
SWPC 在 8 月被宣传为与国会在 20 世纪 40 年代成立的小型战争工厂公司（Smaller War Plants Corporation）等同的机构，该公司旨在帮助小型企业在二战期间生产战争物资。该委员会负责签订合同、提供贷款并提供技术援助。根据洛夫勒的说法，SBA 管理着近 5000 亿美元的小企业投资组合，而小型制造商占美国国防工业基础的 70%。
The SWPC was billed in August as an equivalent to the Smaller War Plants Corporation, which was established by Congress in the 1940s to help smaller businesses in building war supplies during World War II. The commission secured contracts, made loans and offered technical assistance. The SBA oversees close to $500 billion in its small business portfolio and the small manufacturers comprise 70 percent of the U.S. defense industrial base, according to Loeffler.