Well, I’d consider Navy people a fairly good source of rumors, but now that it’s official, we don’t have to rely on rumors, informed or not:

FBO

NECO

In sum, on May 3 EMC2 was awarded a $5.3 million contract (N6893609C0125) for work over the next two years. The scaling seems to be holding up, but it seems they need a better power supply for the electron guns. I assume EMC2’s work over the next two years will include further experimentation on WB 8.0 (D+D) and the construction and operation of WB 8.1 (p+B11). If all goes well, I imagine they’ll be awarded a much larger contract for a demonstration reactor (possibly D+D to begin with), to be completed after another three years or so. At least, that’s my understanding from reading the thread on Talk Polywell. Unfortunately I can’t access .mil domains from the Middle Kingdom. For those who are having trouble with the NECO link, there’s also a Google Doc here:

Google Doc

But I can’t access Google Docs, either. *shrug*