# Army Reorganizes Fires Acquisition

The U.S. Army’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive Fires is reorganizing management of 62 programs into offensive, defensive, and integrated fires portfolios to accelerate decisions and improve integration. The Army reports a fiscal 2027 budget request of **$47 billion**, up from $18 billion for fiscal 2026, and identifies ongoing competitions—including the Common Autonomous Multi-Domain Launcher, Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2, and Precision Strike Missile Increment 4—as well as planned competitions. The request is not an enacted appropriation, and the signal provides no solicitation numbers, deadlines, or award values.

- Active and planned competitions create potential entry points for contractors across launcher, missile, air-defense, radar, and munitions programs.
- Army acquisition leaders emphasize affordability, producibility, manufacturing capacity, modularity, open architectures, and resilient supply chains as important performance considerations. Companies should align proposals and industrial-base plans to these stated priorities.
- Contractors can distinguish current opportunities from planned competitions when prioritizing bid resources; no solicitation identifiers or submission dates are provided in the signal.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Defense & Military
**Topics:** Grants & Funding
**Published:** September 30, 2026

### Government Entities
- U.S. Army (Army)
- Portfolio Acquisition Executive Fires (PAE Fires)
- Fires Center of Excellence

### Key Quotes
> Across each of these competitions, we’re sending messages. Bring us solutions. Bring us capability, manufacturing capacity, innovation and an understanding that affordability and producibility are performance characteristics. They’re not secondary considerations.
> — Robert Mikesh, Program Management Executive for Offensive Fires

> We look at how we’re going to ramp production to get more effectors out there, because that’s something we’ve known we need for the last five years.
> — Guy Yelverton III, Program Management Executive for Defensive Fires

### Sources
- [Army Hopes Reorganizing Fires Office Solves Long-Standing Problems](https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2026/9/30/army-hopes-reorganizing-fires-office-solves-longstanding-problems) - National Defense Magazine