# Project CO3 — Precision Strike Missile (PrSM)

**Program element:** 0605231A — Precision Strike Missile (PrSM)  
**Project:** CO3  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605231A/CO3  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605231A

## Summary

Project CO3 — Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) requests $45.3M in FY2027, 16% of the $288.3M requested for program element 0605231A — a restart: funded in FY2025, zeroed in FY2026, funded again now. 3 R-2A activities decompose the request, 1 new this cycle. LMMFCS is the largest named R-3 performer at $26.9M, 59% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

**Markets:** Guided Missiles (mfg), Long-Range & Precision Fires — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 177.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 45.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 49.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 26.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 66.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 43.0 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0605231A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project CO3 buys

Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) funding line is directly aligned to the Army Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) modernization priority. PrSM is the Army's next generation surface-to-surface missile that replaces and improves upon Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) capabilities. The PrSM program is a component of an integrated fires development effort that includes survivability, resiliency, and effectiveness improvements against advanced threats from adversaries. These efforts include integration with an evolving common fires mission command, common development tools and processes, and annual test and evaluation to provide data to support program assessments and progress toward closure of performance gaps. PrSM requirements include: threshold max range of 400 kilometers (km), specified lethality against the designated target set, a launch pod missile container (LPMC) that holds two missiles, survivability in a threat environment, and compatibility with the existing launcher platforms (M270A2 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)). PrSM will meet cluster and insensitive munition (IM) requirements and is designed with an open system approach that provides the capability for future growth to counter new and emerging threats. PrSM is an incremental development program. The munitions developed under this funding line are part of the MLRS Family of Munitions (MFOM) that are deployed by the M142 HIMARS and M270 MLRS launchers. The mission of PrSM Increment 1 is to attack, neutralize, suppress, destroy targets using missile delivered indirect precision fires. PrSM will provide joint force commanders with a 24/7, all-weather capability to attack critical and time sensitive area and point targets including threat air defense, missile launchers, command and control centers, assembly/staging areas and high payoff targets at all depths of the multi-domain battlefield. PrSM will counter the enemy's ability to conduct combat maneuver and air defense operations.

**R-3 lines of work:** Management Services; Product Development; Support; Test and Evaluation.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| LMMFCS | 26.9 | 59% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 3

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increment 1: M-Code Development, Proximity Sensor Redesign, and Software Maintenance | — | — | 45.3 | new | — |
| Increment 1: Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) | 86.7 | — | — | — | — |
| Increment 2: Integration | 90.7 | — | — | — | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Increment 1: M-Code Development, Proximity Sensor Redesign, and Software Maintenance — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** Continues development and qualification of the M-Code guidance set; continues development and qualification of the exportable proximity sensor; continues cybersecurity, continuous software development, and blocking upgrades.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 funding increase continues development and qualification of the M-Code guidance sets and software development.

### Increment 1: Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD)

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Efforts will focus on hardware builds and training material in preparation for (10) initial operational test & evaluation (IOT&E) flight tests occurring in late FY 2025. Additional FY 2025 efforts include the completion of PQT flight testing, integration with the M270A2 launcher and the new common fire control system (CFCS), cyber security requirements to achieve full materiel release (FMR), and preparation for MS C.

### Increment 2: Integration

**FY2025 accomplishments.** FY 2025 activities support system prototype flight tests against maritime targets and PrSM Increment 2 preliminary design review (PDR). System prototype tests inform the EOC contract award decision scheduled in late FY 2026 in order to begin delivery of EOC missiles by FY 2029.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605231A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0605231A project CO3 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0605231A")`.

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