Drift

JASSM / JASSM-ER

JASSM · Air Force · Lockheed Martin

+219% $2.2B (1998) → $7.1B (2009)
JASSM / JASSM-ER: cost trajectory from $2.2B in 1998 to $7.1B in 2009, +219% growth. Explore JASSM interactively → Download 1-page brief (PDF)
Baseline
$2.2B (1998)
Current estimate
$7.1B (2009)
Cost growth
+219%
Units
2400 → 4900
Quantity change
+104%
Unit-cost change
+56%
IOC
2001 (planned) → 2009
Schedule slip
+8 yr
Cost basis
BY
Confidence
high · reconciled
+219% (BY2010) — a 2007 Nunn-McCurdy critical breach; quantity roughly doubled (2,400 → 4,900) and the pricier JASSM-ER was added. The buy kept growing: the Dec 2022 SAR raised the inventory objective to ~7,200 missiles.

Documented events

Source: GAO-11-112 (Mar 2011): $2,232.5M/2,400 (1998) → $7,129.4M/4,900 (2009), BY2010$.

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