The Army has selected General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) as the prime contractor for its Digital Guided Missile prototype program, the company announced Monday.
GA-EMS is tasked with developing new missile system prototype designs that could be used across the Army’s future weapons platforms, from Long Range Precision Fires capabilities, Next Generation Combat Vehicles and the Future Vertical Lift fleet.
“We are excited to be chosen to help frame the next generation of weapon systems for the U.S. Army,” Scott Forney, president of GA-EMS, said in a statement. “GA-EMS has more than a decade’s worth of experience developing and advancing hypersonic weapons technologies for the joint service. We develop missile designs that have a digital model grounded with vetted modeling and simulation infrastructures. We are eager to leverage that expertise to develop competitive new ideas that better equip our men and women across a multi-domain battlespace.”
GA-EMS said the Digital Guided Missile program will look to develop new advanced missile concepts to support implementation of the Army’s new Multi-Domain Operations (MDOs) concept by 2028.
“GA-EMS has organic capabilities for the development of missile systems,” Nick Bucci, GA-EMS’ vice president of missile defense and space systems, said in a statement. “Our key technical personnel with decades of experience in weapons design and manufacturing, along with our flight technologies and space and air systems engineering groups located in Huntsville, Ala., bring the missile development knowledge and capability needed to support the U.S. Army’s critical MDOs in the 2028 timeline.”