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 Long Range Precision Fires modernization effort. 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 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Family of Munitions (MFOM), including the Guided MLRS (GMLRS) and the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), and future MFOM to include the Extended Range GMLRS (ER-GMLRS), and the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM). These munitions are capable of engaging targets with precision at ranges up to and in excess of 400 kilometers. HIMARS launchers support Integrated Fires and Multi-Domain Operations. Funds software development, training updates, Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (APNT) technology implementation, integration of satellite communications, integration of evolving cybersecurity requirements, 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). Supports the Army's goal to develop common solutions applicable to both MLRS and HIMARS launchers. FY 2025 Base funding in the amount of $4.241 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- DX8_0603778A_7_2040_PB_2025
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