On Wednesday, April 30, 2025, the U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC) at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, acting on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense, signed a contract worth 16,370,000 USD (61.742 million PLN) with Lockheed Martin for technical support of Poland’s MIM-104F Patriot PAC-3+ medium-range air and missile defense systems (Post-Deployment Build 8, PDB 8) under the Wisła program.
Photo: Krzysztof Niedziela/Ministry Of National Defence
The contract covers system integration and performance assessment. The work will be carried out entirely at Lockheed Martin’s facilities in Grand Prairie, Texas, with a completion date set for April 30, 2028. All funding comes from the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program for Poland and was obligated at the time the contract was signed (Poland plans to open an account in the U.S. to handle military procurement transactions).
The previous contract with Lockheed Martin on this matter was signed on November 26, 2024. Although it was valued at 129.693 million USD (530.272 million PLN at the time), it covered not only Poland but also other Patriot system users: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.
Let us recall that on December 18, 2024, the 37th Air Defense Missile Squadron of the 3rd Warsaw Air Defense Missile Brigade announced the Initial Operational Capability (IOC) of the Wisła/Patriot medium-range air and missile defense system with the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS). This milestone covers the first two batteries acquired under Phase I of the Wisła program.
Meanwhile, under Phase II of the program, six additional batteries have been contracted, with deliveries scheduled for 2027–2029. In March of this year, the contract was formally secured in terms of logistics. These batteries will include, among other components, 12 LTAMDS (Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor) medium-range radar stations, which have just entered production.