ARMY AL&T


INVESTIGATING THE INNER WORKINGS


Jay Cossentine, STORM Precision Strike Missile systems engineer, investigates the inner workings of the missile Control Actuation System while visiting the PRSM assembly facility. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin)


Te team also identified action items and developed a maturation plan to address any anticipated manufacturing challenges and ways to overcome those potential obsta- cles. Tat plan is currently in motion and will continue to be monitored to closure throughout the program’s progression, ensuring future production needs are in place and on schedule.


Leading up to the March manufacturing- readiness assessment event, the Army and contractor teams conducted 10 pilot-line validations as well as seven manufacturing-readiness assessments with the major PRSM subcontractors.


A pilot line is a pre-production assembly line that produces a small volume of new technology to help test out the product’s capability to perform in its final operating environment. Te pilot-line validations verified subcontractor pilot production lines for PRSM subassemblies such as the warhead, rocket motor and guidance set. Te subcontractors demonstrated that their pilot production lines were equipped, confirming they could build production- representative qualification hardware. Te team conducted the manufacturing- readiness assessments to review objective evidence in support of a more rigorous Manufacturing Readiness Level 8 event.


Te higher manufacturing-level criteria require demonstration of the pilot line capability to prove it is ready for low-rate initial production of the PRSM missile. Tese criteria will be fully assessed in the


By 2023, the Army will deliver the first lot of PRSM missiles to the warfighter.


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