The program is driving hard to meet President Trump’s 2028 deadline, officials said, but they have yet to release a formal solicitation, let alone pick a specific vendor and design.
The ambitious energy plan raises several unanswered questions.
Lightning Surge exercises are turning soldier feedback on NGC2 into operational software changes in days, not years.
The Army's top energy official recently walked reporters through a series of questions he’s grappling with as part of the push to deploy nuclear microreactors at military installations around the country.
Up to $2.2 billion could be distributed among the handful of vendors.
The Janus Program is a joint effort between the Army and the Department of Energy that aims to stand up commercial nuclear microreactors at domestic military bases over the next few years.
“Realistically, it's gonna take us a few months to do all this. But we are planning to put a draft RFP out within a few weeks, so we're gonna move very quickly,” an Army official said.
Traditional thinking about how to protect facilities must adapt to new threats such as drones or downstream attacks.