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Both European- and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/03\/24\/overmatch-is-fleeting-how-the-us-armys-multidomain-task-force-will-help-keep-joint-force-dominant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indo-Pacific-based U.S. commanders<\/a> have been eager to receive the capability that can hit targets at standoff locations greater than 400 kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hitting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2024\/05\/10\/us-army-sends-himars-rocket-launcher-island-hopping-in-the-philippines\/\" target=\"_blank\">a moving target at sea from land is extremely challenging<\/a>. For example, the Army\u2019s HIMARS rockets missed a ship during a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/training-sim\/2024\/06\/04\/us-philippines-expand-exercise-to-territorial-edges-amid-tension-with-china\/\" target=\"_blank\"> live-fire exercise off the coast<\/a> of a Philippine training facility near Subic Bay in 2023. The service identified challenges with targeting because the munitions were not able to easily account for drift. Drifting at sea is a complex problem because ships can move 30 to 40 meters in the time it takes to lock in a target and fire a munition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A PrSM with a ship-killing seeker would make the task much easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lockheed development<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program originally began as a competition between Lockheed Martin and RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies), but the latter struggled to get the weapon ready for flight tests during the program\u2019s technology maturation and risk reduction phase. The Army and RTX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/army-modernization\/2020\/03\/25\/raytheon-exits-precision-strike-missile-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\">mutually decided to end the effort in March 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lockheed continued alone in development and flight testing for the first increment. The Army approved the PrSM program to move into the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/10\/11\/us-armys-precision-strike-missile-gets-green-light-for-development-readies-for-big-test\/\" target=\"_blank\"> engineering and manufacturing development phase<\/a> in September 2021, awarding the company a $62 million contract for early operational capability production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service again awarded Lockheed another $158 million a year later for additional early operational-capability PrSMs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is planning add-ons, including an enhanced seeker to better defeat moving targets at sea as well as technology to provide increased lethality and extended range. The priority for the PrSM in the near term is to pursue a maritime, ship-killing capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lockheed and an RTX and Northrop Grumman team will compete for a subsequent phase of the PrSM program. The Army awarded RTX a $97.7 million contract in February 2023 to advance its design for a Long Range Maneuverable Fires program, planned to become the PrSM Increment 4 effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lockheed won a $33 million contract to develop capability for the increment around the same time. That increment focuses on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/06\/14\/us-army-to-fund-extended-range-precision-strike-missile-starting-in-fy22\/\" target=\"_blank\">dramatically extending the range of PrSM, <\/a>possibly from its planned 499 kilometers (310 miles) to more than double that distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">America\u2019s 2019 withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia has allowed the U.S. Army to develop the missile to fly farther. 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