JASSM / JASSM-ER

Name: JASSM / JASSM-ER acquisition cost growth
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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.

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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

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

2007Nunn-McCurdy breach

Source: GAO-11-112 (Mar 2011), Total Program Cost table (BY FY2010$): $2,232.5M/2,400 (1998) → $6,641.4M (May 2008, post-breach) → $7,129.4M/4,900 (2009).

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