Overview

• Army officials said the program will commit hundreds of millions of dollars over five years to accelerate commercially built microreactors for military power.
• Reactors will be developed and operated by private companies under Army oversight using a milestone-based contracting approach modeled on NASA’s COTS.
• The effort targets a domestic base deployment by 2028 under a presidential directive, with initial hardware not expected before 2027.
• Multiple vendors are expected, with each building at least two units to progress from a prototype to a refined follow-on design.
• Initial units will stay stateside as the Army builds supply chains and certification pathways, with future expeditionary use envisioned and industry momentum signaled by new factory plans in Tennessee.