The Pentagon's acquisition chief has approved the start of low-rate initial production of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhanced missile. In a March 27 "for official use only" acquisition decision memorandum obtained by Inside the Army , Frank Kendall, the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, approved an LRIP quantity of 330 PAC-3 MSE missiles and gave the program a separate acquisition category ID designation, "which will begin reporting under a separate program number after approval...
