In addition, the program was a joint venture with Raytheon and LM in which LM designed parts of the missile and Raytheon desinged parts of the CLU. Yes, someone thought that was a good idea! The LM designed missile components had significant technical issues that drove cost and schedule. It was mentioned above to use LMs P44, which makes you wonder why they would be at all in interested in the sucess of the PAM when they have an option "ready" to go. The Army's inexperience running an SDD program and the formation of an LLC between competitors killed this program.

The real truth is that the program was accelerated twice by the Army (for free), the Army directed flight tests and LUT be conducted prior to the completion of qualification testing in order to meet dog and pony show commitments, and constantly changed its top level requirements (for free), including contradictory performance vs safety requirements which ultimatley let schedule instead of technical completness drive the program. The seeker is state of the art as are the algorithms and with any development program are constantly being tweaked with flight test results. The army is backing out on a 1.2 billion dollar program that needs less than $100 million to deliver a fully qualified system. The army wanted state of the art technolgy for next to nothing and was unwilling to compromise performance for a reduction in cost and then cancelled the program because of cost.