Guided Multiple-Launch Rocket System (GMLRS)
Abstract
Projects EG2/EG3. GMLRS rockets are surface-to-surface artillery rockets fired from the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers. GMLRS rockets provide 24/7, all-weather precision fires to engage both area and point targets at short, medium, and long ranges. The GMLRS Program consists of three separate increments: GMLRS Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition (DPICM) cluster munition to engage area or imprecisely located targets; GMLRS Unitary utilizes a 200 pound high explosive warhead to engage point targets with limited collateral damage; and GMLRS Alternative Warhead (AW) which has been developed as a non-cluster munition to replace GMLRS DPICM. GMLRS DPICM Production was terminated in response to the June 2008 Department of Defense (DoD) Cluster Munitions Policy. GMLRS Unitary is currently in full rate production. GMLRS AW entered full rate production in FY 2015. The GMLRS AW rocket is 90% common with the Unitary variant. The first increment was GMLRS DPICM. The second increment is GMLRS Unitary. The third increment is GMLRS AW. The fourth increment evolved into the Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) program under a separate program element. The GMLRS program will continue to leverage ongoing Science & Technology (S&T) efforts to extend range and increase survivability. The GMLRS extended range effort will be approximately 85% common with Increments 2 and 3. It will extend the current GMLRS capability to 150 km and allow for potential future growth capability in the payload section. The FY2018 dollars in the amount of $102.807 million will complete the testing and qualification of the Insensitive Munitions Propulsion System (IMPS); continue qualification of key rocket obsolescence upgrades (including the M-Code compliant NAVSTRIKE-M upgrade); evaluate rocket pod improvements; and initiate the design, qualification and testing of an extended range variant of the GMLRS.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 0205778A_7_2040_PB_2018
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2016 funding change due to SBIR/STTR transfer. FY 2017 funding was increased by $16.000 million in support of the M-Code effort. FY 2018 funding was reduced by -$5.670 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. FY 2018 funding was increased by $78.300 million in support of the GMLRS extended range effort.
- Service Agency Name
- Army
Entities
Organizations
- United States Army
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