On Tuesday, October 14, 2025, U.S. company Boeing announced it had received a multiyear order from Lockheed Martin to produce more than 3,000 seekers for PAC-3 (Patriot Advanced Capability-3) interceptor missiles for the MIM-104 Patriot air- and missile-defense system, for approximately 2.7 billion USD.
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Under the framework agreement, deliveries of roughly 750 seekers sets per year are expected through 2030. Boeing is working closely with PAC-3 prime contractor Lockheed Martin and the customer, the U.S. Army, to further accelerate production and meet new targets for PAC-3 guidance heads. Scaling up guidance-head effectiveness is critical to ensuring the Patriot system can continue to defend forces, civilians, and critical infrastructure worldwide as airborne threats proliferate.
“Our team has never been better positioned to answer the nation’s call for greater air and missile defense,” said Jim Bryan, executive director of Boeing Integrated Air & Missile Defense. “These multiyear awards recognize the progress we’ve made and will allow us to meet growing global demand for the PAC‑3 seeker.”
Boeing-built seekers for PAC-3 interceptors enable Patriot batteries to identify, track and defeat advanced threats, including hypersonic targets, hostile aircraft, and ballistic and maneuvering missiles. Demand for PAC-3 interceptors has increased in response to recent conflicts and the rapidly evolving threat environment in Ukraine, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific region.
In 2025 the company set new monthly and annual production records for serial output and plans to deliver a record 650–700 guidance heads by year-end. Years of internal investment, production-line upgrades, closer supplier collaboration and completion of a roughly 3,200 m² plant expansion have increased Boeing’s manufacturing capacity.
Since 2000 Boeing has delivered more than 6,000 increasingly advanced PAC-3 seekers to the U.S. Army as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin, from its facilities in Huntsville, Alabama. Seventeen countries, including the United States, use PAC-3 interceptors in their MIM-104 Patriot systems. In December 2020 a 974 million USD contract was signed to increase production volume and to develop next-generation seekers.
The new framework agreement with Boeing follows, among other things, a record order Lockheed Martin received from the U.S. Army on September 3 this year – a framework contract with a maximum value of 9.8 billion USD for the delivery of 1,970 PAC-3 MSE (Missile Segment Enhancement) missiles.
We’ve been awarded multiyear contracts to deliver more than 3,000 PAC-3 seekers through 2030.
Scaling seeker production is critical to keeping PAC-3 ready to defend troops, civilians and critical infrastructure worldwide.
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