Seems like it's NMN given earlier work, which I image many people on HN already use.

https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1470377

I don't give it to pets though, it's just to expensive

This is not about a company named "Socom", it's about USSOCOM, or the United States Special Operations Command. Journos really need to stop messing up acronyms.

The headline and the article use the right name. It’s only here on HN that it says Socom rather than SOCOM.

Did it say anywhere in the article which drug they are testing? I couldn’t find it.

"However, its website explains that the firm has developed a number of proprietary precursor compounds for “nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)” which “is critically important to the function of all living cells.”