Following the end of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), which had banned the United States and Russia from creating, producing, and using ground-to-ground missiles with a range between 500 and 5,500 km, the U.S. Army has updated the requirements for the PrSM (Precision Strike Missile) program. Originally designed to replace the MGM-140 ATACMS (Army TACtical Missile System), the program now includes a request for Lockheed Martin to extend the missile's range "beyond 499 km." The PrSM increment 1 was first used in combat during the "Epic Fury" operation, launched by the United States against the Iranian regime on February 28. In March, Lockheed Martin announced its plan to quadruple the production capacity of the PrSM. The development of the PrSM, which is fired by the multiple-launch rocket system M142 HIMARS, is still ongoing. As part of the "increment 2" phase of the program, the Pentagon gave Lockheed Martin a $1.2 billion contract to equip the PrSM with a new autonomous guidance system intended to allow it to hit moving targets. Increment 3 involves the integration of new warheads. Increment 4 aims to significantly increase the missile's range. It is not certain that Lockheed Martin will be retained to complete this last phase. On September 29, the U.S. Army announced that it had selected four other industrialists to develop a ground-to-ground tactical missile capable of hitting moving targets, such as vehicles and ships, located at a distance of 1,000 km. The selected companies—Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Anduril, Castelion, RTX, and Mach Industries—were each notified of an OTA (Other Transaction Authority) contract, which allows certain American federal agencies to bypass traditional procurement rules. This announcement may be surprising given that, in 2023, the U.S. Army had already retained Lockheed Martin and a team formed by RTX and Northrop Grumman to develop the Long Range Maneuverable Fires (LRMF) as part of the increment 4 of the PrSM program. However, the emergence of new players, such as Anduril, Mach Industries, and Castelion, capable of doing better than established industrialists for less money, has changed the situation. Regardless, the selected companies will have to design, according to an open architecture, prototypes of long-range missiles that can be fired by the M142 HIMARS. The U.S. Army intends to conduct a first selection following tests planned for 2027. A final decision could be announced before 2030.