$250 million has been set aside for DIU’s Ground-Based Affordable Mass effort to fund demonstrations in the coming months and move promising systems into rapid production.
The Pentagon said it is seeking mature, affordable long-range precision strike weapons that can scale quickly, reflecting a push to generate mass long-range effects at lower cost in future conflicts.
The G-BAM challenge, launched earlier Friday, set a three-month demo timeline and a 12-18 month production goal for systems meeting military requirements.
Those requirements include more than 600 nautical miles of range, payloads above 35 pounds, unit costs below $250,000 per round and production capacity of more than 100 a month.