HIMARS Product Improvement Program
Abstract
Project DX8. The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launcher is a full-spectrum, combat-proven, all-weather, 24/7 lethal and responsive, precision strike weapon system. HIMARS launchers support the Army's number one priority modernization effort, Long Range Precision Fires. HIMARS provides critical missile precision strike, operational shaping fires, counterfire, and close support destructive and suppressive fires. HIMARS is a C-130 or C-17 transportable, wheeled, indirect fire, rocket/missile launcher capable of firing one pod of precision rockets/missiles from the current and emerging Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Family of Munitions (MFOM), to include the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System-Unitary (GMLRS-U), GMLRS- Alternative Warhead, the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) and future MFOM to include the Extended Range (ER) GMLRS, and the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM). Funds software development, training updates, Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (APNT) technology implementation, integration of satellite communications, and nonrecurring engineering for the HIMARS launcher. Funds development related to maintaining capability associated with the current and evolving threat. Funding from both Projects 093 and DX8 contributes to common efforts between both launcher platforms such as Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (APNT) integration and rocket launcher software development effort by Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation and Missile Center (CCDC AvMC). The goal is to develop common solutions applicable to both MLRS and HIMARS launchers. The M142 HIMARS launcher program will develop nascent capability and support Army demonstration and test initiatives to increase integrated offensive and defensive capability across warfighter functions and multiple domains. Justification: FY 2023 Base funding in the amount of $8.287 million for Project DX8 supports tactical launcher software development and qualification to support the Fire Control System (FCS) electronic obsolescence mitigation hardware upgrade required to operate a HIMARS launcher. The tactical software is a critical developmental item required to field additional launchers, maintain backward compatibility for current fleet sustainment, and is the first release of government developed software common to both the MLRS and HIMARS launcher. Also funds integration of Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (APNT) capabilities and satellite communications that allows HIMARS to continue to effectively operate in near-peer and peer-threat environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- DX8_0603778A_7_2040_PB_2023
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