The Pentagon's special operations policy office held its first Accelerator event Friday, inviting 15 companies out of more than 700 submissions to pitch in Arlington, Virginia.

Winners receive $50,000 seed awards, with contracting officers from Army Contracting Command-Rock Island on site to issue documents vendors can invoice against the next day.

SO/LIC chief Derrick Anderson wants the format adopted service-wide, targeting mature systems fieldable to combatant commands within six months rather than multi-year development starts.

The Naval Postgraduate School commissioned NVIDIA's DGX GB300, the first AI supercomputer deployed inside the US military, at a ceremony attended by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.

The system runs 36 Grace CPUs and 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, aimed at weather and ocean modeling, operations research, cybersecurity, and response planning.

Built under a cooperative research agreement with NVIDIA, the school now shifts from installation to operational use, compressing the analysis cycle behind naval decision-making.

Dutch firm Destinus revealed Vorexon, a ground-based interceptor concept exceeding Mach 2 with engagement range beyond 20 kilometers, launched from fixed or mobile canister launchers.

Vorexon targets artillery rockets and selected shells plus subsonic cruise missiles and glide bombs, with external radars prioritizing only projectiles tracking toward critical assets.

Destinus is designing for scalable production, citing Russian firing rates near 20,000 rounds daily as evidence that expensive interceptors cannot economically absorb cheap rocket volume.

Raytheon received a $1.8 billion extension for SPY-6 radar production and sustainment, building on its March 2022 award, with options carrying cumulative value to $3.3 billion.

SPY-6 is aboard two commissioned Navy ships and installed on 11 more now in testing, with deployment planned across more than 50 vessels within a decade.

Raytheon has invested over $800 million modernizing radar manufacturing and expects to double SPY-6 output by 2028, improving long-term availability and lowering unit cost.

The Navy awarded TOTE Services a $2.2 billion vessel construction management contract to oversee acquisition of up to eight new medium landing ships.

TOTE holds the prime contract and will subcontract Bollinger Shipyards for one hull and Fincantieri Marinette Marine for four, with latitude on three more.

Officials cut nearly 50% from traditional contracting timelines between solicitation and award, with first delivery due in fall 2029 toward a planned 35-ship fleet.

Maj. Gen. Joseph Kunkel became the Defense Innovation Unit's first full-time active-duty military deputy, tasked with tightening links to the services and combatant commands.

Director Owen West is measuring DIU on conversion ratio, contract dollars that become fielded assets, and on reversing weapons that cost more than their targets.

Persistent long-range intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance has surfaced across at least four of eleven combatant commands, steering where DIU concentrates its portfolio investment.

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