PEO Ammunition, ARDEC and the Army Rapid Capabilities Office come together at Picatinny Arsenal with near-term plans for improving long-range precision fires.

Of the Army's "big six" priorities driving its new modernization strategy, long-range precision fires is at the top of the list.

The ability to execute accurate strikes at significant distances is critical to ground operations in any theater, against any adversary-especially a near-peer threat that can restrict U.S. maneuver through anti-access and area denial systems and techniques.

Now, the experts at Picatinny Arsenal, known as the Army's Center of Excellence for Guns and Ammunition, and the Army Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO), which is the service's acquisition shop for quickly addressing critical capability gaps, have joined forces to deliver a suite of technologies that can extend the range of cannon artillery and are mature enough for a system-level assessment in less than three years.

Source: Long range, short term