Drift
GMLRS Guided Rocket
GMLRS · Army · Lockheed Martin
+111%
$5.2B (2003) → $10.9B (2023)
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Baseline
$5.2B (2003)
Current estimate
$10.9B (2023)
Cost growth
+111%
Units
43936 → 91781
Quantity change
+109%
Unit-cost change
+1%
IOC
2008 → 2008
Schedule slip
0 yr
Cost basis
BY
Confidence
high · reconciled
+111% (BY2003) — almost entirely QUANTITY: the buy grew ~2.1× (43,560 → 91,320 rockets) at flat unit cost. The purest quantity-driven total-cost growth in the set. (FY22–23 classified tranches excluded.)
Source: GMLRS Modernized SAR Dec 2023 (esd.whs.mil), Total Acquisition Estimates & Quantities (BY2003).
Drift — an independent project by Aous Abdo, built from public GAO, CRS and DoD sources. Cost growth has many causes; a larger number is not by itself evidence of mismanagement. How this is built · Explore the data →