Army shifting $16M toward Long Range Precision Fires Tech from canceled AMD project

The Army is shifting $16 million toward Long Range Precision Fires Technology that had been set aside for a now-canceled air and missile defense project.

Maneuver Air Defense Technology had been a science and technology development program “to mature air defense missile component technologies and missile prototypes” for the Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense program, according to Jennifer Ivey-Harper, chief of public and congressional affairs for the service’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation and Missile Command.

The service decided in late fiscal year 2021 that the MAD-T interceptor would not become a program of record, Ivey-Harper wrote in an email to Inside Defense.

“The decision was made to reprogram funding to other critical modernization efforts. The Army is pursuing other transition opportunities for key component technologies that were developed under the MAD-T program,” she wrote.

According to a September prior approval reprogramming request from the Defense Department comptroller’s office, the Army plans to move the $16 million toward long-range precision fires technology.

The Army says the additional funding is needed to speed up the production of the Precision Strike Missile’s (PrSM) Increment 4 prototype -- on track for completion in FY-26. The first iteration of PrSM is in development and is expected to be in soldiers’ hands by next year.

The first increment PrSMs will have a range of about 500 kilometers and will double the missile capacity for each launcher, compared to the service’s Tactical Missile System. The fourth increment of PRsM will extend the missile’s range to about 1,000 km.