What Happened
Five Defense Contractors Advance in Long-Range Strike Missile Program
The US Army has selected five companies to develop prototypes for the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 4 program, marking a restart of the competition for the service’s next long-range strike weapon. The selected companies - Anduril, Castelion, Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Mach Industries - will each receive Other Transaction Authority agreements to build prototype missiles capable of launching from the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. The program aims to develop a missile that can hit moving maritime and land targets at ranges of at least 1,000 km, roughly double the range of the Army’s PrSM baseline. The announcement was made by the Army, as reported by Breaking Defense.