
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A team of senior Army leaders, acquisition officials and engineers empowered to work directly with industry on a specific need will deliver a long-range precision artillery missile as many as five years sooner than originally planned.The long-range precision fires (LRPF) cross-functional team (CFT) plans on buying prototypes of the Precision Strike Missile, a successor to the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), in fiscal 2019 and could deliver operational copies in 2022 or 2023, years ahead of the…