Overview
- The Department of the Navy, in a Monday announcement, stood up PAE Munitions and PAE Mission Systems with interim leaders Paul Mann and Jim Day to move capabilities to the fleet faster.
- PAE Munitions groups Navy and Marine Corps weapons work under four pillars — Weapons Industrial Base, Air Weapons, Surface Weapons, and Advanced Capabilities and Innovation — to concentrate decisions and scale production.
- PAE Mission Systems pulls mission work from multiple program offices and systems commands to act as a single mission integrator that connects sensors, networks, and weapons across the kill chain.
- Leaders tied the changes to the Warfighting Acquisition System, which favors a modular open systems approach so components can be swapped in like plug‑and‑play and makes room for commercial and non‑traditional suppliers.
- Officials said munitions deliveries are now outpacing contract rates, and noted that Standard Missile‑3 production and sustainment are expected to shift under the new construct in FY2028.