Last summer, President Obama announced that a complete DEM of the Arctic will be completed by next year. The ArcticDEM will be a continous, 8m and then 2m DEM mosaic of all land masses above 60 degrees North (above the latitude of SRTM), constructed from DigitalGlobe Inc. satellite imagery. SETSM is the primary software for DEM extraction for ArcticDEM and we have been working feverishly to ramp up data processing on the Blue Waters Supercomputer while simultaneously continuing SETSM development and post-processing, mosaicking and registration methods. Nearly all of Alaska, Greenland, Scandanavia and large parts of Russia and Canada have already been processed to 8m. This enables data filtering and algorithm development. Once complete, the resolution will be increased to 2m for the final product.