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Army Looks Into Short Range Precision Strike System For SOF

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Monday, August 15th, 2011

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The Army wants information from industry for a Short Range Precision Strike System (SRPSS) that Special Operations Force personnel could use for precision engagements. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) Program Executive Office (PEO) Missiles and Space (M&S), Project Manager (PM) Joint Attack Munition Systems (JAMS) released the Request for Information (RFI) for the system Aug. 3 on FedBizOps, with responses due in 45 days. The entire system is required to be man-portable, so it is "strongly desired"…

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Congress

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