Army taps 5 companies for PrSM Inc 4 prototypes

Key Points:

• The Army has selected five companies—Anduril, Castelion, Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Mach Industries—to develop prototype missiles for the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 4 program, aiming to double the missile’s range to at least 1,000 km.
• Each company received Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements to build missiles launchable from the M142 HIMARS, featuring open systems architecture for hardware and software integration, and capable of operating in the Indo-Pacific theater.
• A competitive fly-off is planned for fiscal 2027, with a final selection expected by fiscal 2030, following multiple rounds of testing and evaluation.
• This program restart follows a previous 2023 contract award to Lockheed Martin and an RTX-Northrop Grumman team, with Lockheed recently achieving a key propulsion milestone in testing its Increment 4 missile.
• The announcement comes shortly after the Army awarded Lockheed a $1.2 billion contract for the PrSM Increment 2 system, which has been combat-tested and is designed to engage moving maritime targets up to 500 km away.