In a request for information (RFI) released March 25, the Air Force is looking for input from companies interested in deploying nuclear reactors at its bases.
The RFI listed on procurement database sam.gov says the service is interested in 1 megawatt to-300-megawatt microreactors and small modular reactors (SMRs), not large-scale reactors.
Interested companies will need to be able to design, license, fuel, construct and deploy SMRs, the RFI says. Responses are due April 19.
Efforts to deploy advanced nuclear reactors at U.S. military installations have accelerated amid a broader policy push by President Donald Trump to expand domestic nuclear energy and streamline regulatory pathways. The Army’s parallel effort with the Department of Energy, called the Janus program, involves an Army-regulated nuclear reactor at a U.S. military installation by September 2028.
Recent directives from the White House frame on-base reactor deployment — particularly microreactors — as a national security priority, so much so that Trump wants defense-related nuclear energy efforts exempt from the National Environmental Policy Act.