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MSE Missile

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What it is
MSE Missile (budget line item 8260C53101) is a U.S. Army procurement line funded in the Missile Procurement, Army account. The line procures the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE), a high-velocity hit-to-kill surface-to-air missile capable of intercepting tactical ballistic missiles, air-breathing threats, cruise missiles, and unmanned aerial systems.
What changed
+$406.8M FY25→26 P-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No single contractor is published as this line's leader. 24 linked award records are listed below. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. Why the crosswalk is partial.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals
$2.81BP-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Enacted
$905.1MP-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$1.31BP-1 TOA · PB2026
27.9% reconciliation

$945.9M discretionary + $366.0M one-time reconciliation. Discretionary change vs FY2025 enacted: +4.5%.

FY25→26 Change
+$406.8MP-1 TOA · PB2026

Two official figures, one label— reconciled below

Fiscal Receipts uses P-1/R-1 workbook total obligation authority (TOA) as the headline figure sitewide. The workbook TOA includes budget rows that the R-2/P-40 J-book program line excludes — advance procurement in an ordinary year, and in FY2026 the one-time reconciliation appropriation as well. Each row below names the one it is. How the two bases relate →

FY26 Request · $1.31B TOA − $945.9M J-book line = 366.0M (1,311.9 − 945.9 = 366.0) — $366.0M of one-time FY2026 reconciliation money accounts for this gap — not advance procurement

Figures in the sentence are rounded for reading; the parenthesised arithmetic is the same subtraction in USD millions, at the precision where it closes.

Data coverage

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget trajectory

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.FY24: $2.81BFY25: $905.1MFY26: $1.31BFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$2.81B
FY25$905.1M
FY26$1.31B

All series figures: P-1 TOA · PB2026

Decade view

P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition

5 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2022–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
5 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2022–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
SeriesFY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$1.33B$2.47B$2.81B
Enacted–$1.04B$1.21B$905.1M
Request––$1.21B$963.1M$1.31B

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $1.21B for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $2.81B as actual total obligation authority — $1.60B above the request. 2,814.9 − 1,212.8 = 1,602.1 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.

Program lineage

No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.

Description

Description — MSE Missile

This funding line is a key enabler of the Army Modernization Priorities in support of Air and Missile Defense. The FY 2026 request for MSE Missile includes $945,905 thousand of discretionary and $366,000 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $1,311,905 thousand. The mandatory funds procure an additional 96 MSE missiles in FY 2026. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Section 20003 of the Reconciliation Exhibit. The FY 2026 request includes $396.335 million of Overseas Operations Cost (OOC) funding in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR). FY 2026 discretionary funding supports the production of Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles, Field Surveillance Program (FSP), supporting equipment, ancillary missile items, PAC-3 Missile Support Center (P3MSC), Obsolescence, System Engineering/Program Management (SEPM), and Government/Software Engineering. The increase of funding from FY25 to FY26 supports procurement of an additional 10 MSE interceptors. The Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) is a high velocity hit-to-kill, surface-to-air missile capable of intercepting tactical ballistic missiles, air breathing threats, cruise missiles, and unmanned aerial systems. The PAC-3 MSE represents the current generation PAC-3 missile which provides expanded battlespace performance against evolving threats and has been fully integrated into the Patriot system (US and international partners), the IAMD Battle Command System (IBCS), and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system (US only). The PAC-3 MSE is an agile, lethal interceptor providing substantial missile capabilities when combined with critical ground system improvements deployed specific to the M903 launching station. The PAC-3 MSE enhances Insensitive Munitions (IM) through a less sensitive, increased performance lethality enhancer, and the addition of armor and a thermally initiated venting system. A single canister design provides enhanced warfighter and logistics flexibility and facilitates improved IM performance for greater warfighter safety. The Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Field Surveillance Program (FSP) is required to ensure that the reliability, performance, and safety of fielded missiles in the Patriot family remain within the classified system specification for the life of the system. Initial FSP tasks confirm the quality of design, materials, tooling and test equipment procedures, and processes used in the manufacture of the Patriot Family of Missiles (PFoM). After missile deployment, results from surveillance firings, inspections, functional tests, storage and aging programs, and depot level missile maintenance processing provide the data required for the assessment of reliability, performance, and safety of the missile stockpile. The PFoM are fielded under the Certified Round Concept. Under this approved concept, the missiles are capable of being placed in extended storage as part of war reserve stocks or deployed in operational units for variable periods and then fired without intervening tests or checkouts. In accordance with the Certified Round Concept, the reliability/performance of the missile is certified by the Short and Intermediate Effectors for Layered Defense (SHIELD) Project Office to be at an acceptable level for a stated period of time or corrective action is taken. The certification of reliability is made possible through the use of the PAC-3 Missile Support Center (P3MSC) contract to use technical support and knowledge of the testing of discrete lots of component parts, subassemblies and assemblies which the prime contractor Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (LMMFC) provides as the only source of technical knowledge, expertise, and facilities to perform FSP activities and process PFoM. SEPM support encompasses the overall planning, management, and control of the PAC-3 MSE program including all engineering and program management disciplines and activities.

Justification

Justification — MSE Missile

The FY 2026 request for MSE Missile includes $945,905 thousand of discretionary and $366,000 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $1,311,905 thousand. The mandatory funds procure an additional 96 MSE missiles in FY 2026. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Section 20003 of the Reconciliation Exhibit. FY 2026 procurement dollars support the production of Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles, Field Surveillance Program (FSP), supporting equipment, ancillary missile items, PAC-3 Missile Support Center (P3MSC), Obsolescence, System Engineering/Program Management (SE/PM), and Government/Software Engineering. Prior Year unit cost on P-40 does not reflect classified quantities. P-40 does not reflect the correct quantity or unit cost for FY 2026. Quantities procured with discretionary funds total 224 based on a unit cost of $3.871 million. The Army Requirements Oversight Council Memorandum (AROCM) approved a PAC-3 MSE AAO/APO increase from 3,376 to 13,773 on 16 April 2025. Unit prices reflect an assessed yearly Foreign Military Sales (FMS) procurement of PAC-3 missile variants. In the event FMS procurements do not occur at this level, the budgeted missile unit price may not be achievable. The Army intends to convert any price advantage created through contract negotiations, other service procurement, and/or foreign military sales to increase the Army procurement MSE missiles.

Budget line items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit P-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Missile Procurement, ArmyAFY24 Actuals$2.81B
Missile Procurement, ArmyAFY25 Enacted$905.1M
Missile Procurement, ArmyAFY26 Disc. Request$945.9M
Missile Procurement, ArmyAFY26 Reconciliation$366.0M
Missile Procurement, ArmyAFY26 Total$1.31B

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.

Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$10.4B$2.81B$905.1M$549.6M$945.9M

Follow the dollar

Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.

Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →

The program's money traced left to right: the A appropriation, program element 8260C53101 (MSE Missile), its 9 largest high-confidence awards, the 1 recipient family behind them, and the 3 congressional districts the work is recorded in. Read it for concentration — how few families and districts the awards run through. Amounts inside the diagram are illustrative per-award transaction sums; the table below carries the cited per-district obligations.
The program's money traced left to right: the A appropriation, program element 8260C53101 (MSE Missile), its 9 largest high-confidence awards, the 1 recipient family behind them, and the 3 congressional districts the work is recorded in. Read it for concentration — how few families and districts the awards run through. Amounts inside the diagram are illustrative per-award transaction sums; the table below carries the cited per-district obligations.APPROPRIATIONPROGRAM ELEMENTTOP AWARDSRECIPIENT FAMILIESDISTRICTSAProcurement appropriation8260C531011.31B FY26W31P4Q20C0023LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION10.7BW31P4Q24C0022LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION10.6BW31P4Q17C0006LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION4.56BW31P4Q19C0011LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION4.10BW31P4Q19C0011LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION708.7MW31P4Q17C0006LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION217.1MW31P4Q24F0015LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION64.0MW31P4Q23F0003LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION29.3MW31P4Q19C0011LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION3.49MLockheed Martin CorpTX-33TX-06NY-05

The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.

The diagram as text: one row per congressional district in the diagram, the recipient families shown there, and that district's cited program obligations.
DistrictProgram obligations
TX-33$27.3B
TX-06$925.9M
NY-05$3.49M

Related awards

Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →

Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.

RecipientPIIDConfidence
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q17C0006high
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q19C0011high
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q20C0023high
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q23F0003high
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q24C0022high
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q24F0015high
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q19F0038medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q19F0355medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q19F0582medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q19F0634medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q20F0141medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q20F0290medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q20F0328medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q21F0321medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q22F0252medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q23F0194medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q24F0008medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q24F0039medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONW31P4Q25F0167medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN GLOBAL, INCW31P4Q22C0020medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN GLOBAL, INCW31P4Q25C0001medium
RAYTHEON COMPANYW31P4Q16C0078medium
RAYTHEON COMPANYW31P4Q17C0005medium
RAYTHEON COMPANYW31P4Q18C0112medium

Contractor concentration

No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.

Lobbying mentions

No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.

Oversight

Department-level designation (not specific to this program)

GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not MSE Missile. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.

Program dossier

Every sentence below carries its citation — warehouse figures open the citation panel, news claims link the cached source.

Research dossiers exist for 50 of 1,938 programs — the 50 largest fully J-book-detailed programs by FY2026 request. why no dossier here? →

What it is

  • MSE Missile (budget line item 8260C53101) is a U.S. Army procurement line funded in the Missile Procurement, Army account.
  • The line procures the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE), a high-velocity hit-to-kill surface-to-air missile capable of intercepting tactical ballistic missiles, air-breathing threats, cruise missiles, and unmanned aerial systems.
  • The program is a key enabler of the Army Modernization Priorities in support of Air and Missile Defense; the PAC-3 MSE is fully integrated into the Patriot system, the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS), and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.
  • Beyond the missiles themselves, FY2026 discretionary funding supports the Field Surveillance Program, supporting equipment, ancillary missile items, the PAC-3 Missile Support Center, obsolescence work, and system engineering and program management.

Why it matters

  • The line's total FY2026 request is $1,311,905 thousand (about $1.31 billion), up from $905,060 thousand (about $905 million) enacted in FY2025.
  • The FY2026 request splits into a discretionary request of $945,905 thousand (about $946 million) and a reconciliation (mandatory) request of $366,000 thousand (about $366 million).
  • The $366,000 thousand reconciliation request is additional mandatory funding on top of the discretionary base, together making up the line's $1,311,905 thousand FY2026 total.
  • In FY2024 the line recorded actual obligations of $2,814,908 thousand (about $2.8 billion), so the FY2026 request is well below that peak execution year.
  • The program's own budget narrative states the mandatory funds procure an additional 96 MSE missiles in FY2026, with further detail provided in Section 20003 of the Reconciliation Exhibit.
  • The narrative also notes the FY2026 request includes $396.335 million of Overseas Operations Cost funding in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve.

Key players

  • The program is run by the U.S. Army, with funding drawn from the Missile Procurement, Army appropriation.
  • The Army Requirements Oversight Council approved an increase in the PAC-3 MSE approved acquisition objective from 3,376 to 13,773 missiles on 16 April 2025, and the Army intends to convert price advantages from contract negotiations, other-service procurement, and foreign military sales into additional MSE missile buys.

Primary sources

Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.

Budget totals · TOA sources

Detailed budget justification

The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.