TAMPA, Florida. SOFWERX, the innovation accelerator for U.S. Special Operations Command, has facilitated 362 events resulting in significant operational impacts for warfighters, including 75 technology transitions to contracts or programs of record, officials said at SOF Week 2025 here on Monday.

TAMPA, Florida. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has reached a new record with $1.8 billion in prime contracts awarded to small businesses last year, according to Bill Innes, deputy director of acquisition for Special Operations Forces Aquisition, Technology, and Logistics (SOF AT&L), who gave and overview of SOF AT&L during the SOF Week 2025 Welcome Session.

SOF WEEK 2025 -- Tampa, Fla. The need to provide more realistic planning and simulation capabilities to military personnel has pushed the industry toward developing and improving holographic solutions. Although it still seems a bit like sci-fi, this type of technology has been gaining ground across the globe by promising to enable better preparing warfighters for tomorrow’s warfare.

SOF WEEK 2025 -- Tampa, Fla. Viasat Government -- the Carlsbad, California-based supplier of communications, networking, and satellite solutions -- will unveil its Move Out/Jump Off (MOJO) Mini Next today at SOF Week 2025, currently being held in Tampa. The capability was designed to deliver a compact and ruggedized Link 16 Tactical Data Link situational awareness capability for at-the-pause or on-the-move applications.

MONTREAL, Canada. Haivision will exhibit its suite of real-time video networking and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) products during SOF Week 2025 in Tampa, Florida, the company announced in a statement.

SOF WEEK 2025 - TAMPA, Florida. The SOF Week Assistant from Legion enables attendees to discover the companies attending SOF Week and quickly assess which vendors align with their national security goals.

SOF WEEK 2025 - TAMPA, Florida. – General Bryan P. Fenton, 13th commander of USSOCOM, will lead the keynote session at the SOF Week 2025 on Tuesday morning, May 6, at 9:15 am at the JW Marriott: Tampa Bay Ballroom. Also speaking is Senior Enlisted Leader, Command Sergeant Major Shane Shorter.

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts. Kopin Corporation will exhibit its augmented and virtual reality optical systems for soldier and pilot applications at SOF Week 2025, the company announced in a statement.

PASADENA, California. GuRu Wireless will demonstrate its wireless energy transfer system for enabling persistent flight of small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) during SOF Week 2025, the company announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Florida. Aptima will present a suite of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions designed to enhance warfighter readiness, decision-making, and information integrity at SOF Week 2025, the company announced in a statement.

TAMPA, Florida. PteroDynamics will exhibit its Transwing® autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aerial system (UAS) at SOF Week 2025, the company announced in a statement.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Palladyne AI and Red Cat Holdings completed a cross-platform autonomous flight involving three uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), demonstrating collaborative operations across heterogeneous drones using onboard computing and constrained communication protocols, the companies announced in a statement.

TAMPA, Florida. Spectra Group will unveil a new mobile troposcatter communications capability called Troposcatter on the Move (TOTM) at SOF Week, developed in partnership with BATS Wireless and Comtech Telecommunications Corp., the company announced in a statement.

ANDOVER, Massachusetts. Mercury Systems completed its acquisition of Star Lab, a provider of anti-tamper and cybersecurity software for mission-critical aerospace and defense systems, the company announced in a statement.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. The U.S. Space Force Strategic Missile Warning Ground and Integration Acquisition Delta at Space Systems Command, in partnership with Space Operation Command’s Mission Delta 4 (MD4), reports that it achieved Operational Acceptance for the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Survivable Endurable Evolution (S2E2) program on April 25, 2025. This milestone represents a major step forward in ensuring U.S. missile-warning systems remain operational and resilient even in contested and degraded environments.