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Pentagon Launches 120-Day “Sprint” to Field Counter-UAS Armed USVs

The 120-day clock is the story here, not the boats. DIU's sprint model compresses requirement-setting, prototyping, and fielding into a single quarter — a deliberate break from the multi-year acquisition cycle that has historically left surface fleets exposed to cheap aerial threats. For industry, it signals that the Pentagon will trade customization for speed and accept commercial autonomy stacks and modular effectors. We read this as a template likely to spread to other urgent capability gaps, and as a procurement signal worth tracking closely.