Lockheed Martin will test this spring whether it can successfully integrate the U.S. Army’s latest and most capable variant of the Patriot missile with the U.S. Navy’s Aegis Combat System. By the end of the year, Lockheed will have spent roughly $100 million on the integration effort so far. “The U.S. Navy has capability and capacity gaps against advanced threats at sea,” Tom Copeman said in a January 18 interview. In early 2022, the Missile Defense Agency successfully launched a PAC-3 MSE missile from a THAAD system in a test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.