Poland Chosen As Planned Home For Lockheed PAC-3 Sustainment Hub

Lockheed Martin (LMT ) announced plans on October 27, 2026, to establish a dedicated PAC-3 Missile Maintenance Facility (MMF) in Poland, in coordination with the United States Government, making the country the planned site for an in-region sustainment center that five governments agreed to explore earlier this year.

According to the company, the facility will support the growing community of NATO allies operating PAC-3 interceptors by performing onsite repair, refurbishment, lifecycle support and re-certification, enabling rapid turnaround for resupply and integrated testing. Lockheed Martin described the step as strengthening NATO’s integrated air and missile defense across Europe.

The company said the facility will build on a deeply integrated transatlantic industrial partnership, with Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, the original signatories to the underlying agreement alongside the United States and Poland, playing roles in the supply chain.

“For more than 75 years, Lockheed Martin has been a trusted partner to Europe,” said Tim Cahill, president of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. “The PAC-3 MMF represents the next evolution of that partnership, bringing essential sustainment support to our European allies and ensuring these advanced defense systems remain available when and where they are needed most.”

Lockheed Martin said the new facility will be fully integrated with Poland’s existing defense industrial ecosystem, and that it expects the project to create high-skill jobs, expand opportunities for local suppliers and bring investment to local communities.

Jay Pitman, president of Lockheed Martin International, said the announcement “establishes deeper industrial partnerships in Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden,” adding that the company is expanding opportunities for American and European suppliers and strengthening supply-chain resilience on both sides of the Atlantic.

From Five-Nation Agreement to Poland Site

The site announcement follows a joint government-to-government agreement signed on July 7, 2026, during the NATO Summit Defense Industry Forum, part of the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara. Under that agreement, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden committed to explore a dedicated PAC-3 Missile Maintenance Facility in Europe, Lockheed Martin said at the time.

The July announcement said the proposed facility would provide in-region maintenance and sustainment capabilities intended to keep PAC-3 missiles ready, reliable and rapidly deployable against evolving threats. It would support NATO allies operating PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors and PAC-3 Cost Reduction Initiative (CRI) interceptors, with Lockheed Martin contributing decades of experience in missile production, sustainment, engineering and supply-chain management to the facility’s development.

PAC-3 Production Expansion

The sustainment plans follow a series of U.S. production investments this year. In January 2026, Lockheed Martin established a framework agreement with the U.S. Department of War to triple PAC-3 MSE production capacity. In April 2026, the U.S. government awarded the company a $4.7 billion contract to continue accelerating production.

On July 29, 2026, the U.S. government awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year undefinitized contract action modification for up to $53.86 billion for PAC-3 MSE interceptors. That award brought the total multiyear contract value to $58.62 billion, including the $4.7 billion year-one award from April.

Lockheed Martin said the funding enables it to triple PAC-3 MSE production capacity by the end of 2030 and supports a 50% increase in jobs, from 1,200 to approximately 1,850, in Camden, Arkansas, where the company conducts final all-up round production of the interceptors. The company said it is investing $8 billion to $9 billion through 2030 to modernize more than 20 U.S. facilities and rapidly scale munitions output, and that it has held two munitions facility groundbreakings this year: the Munitions Production Center Building 47 in Troy, Alabama, supporting Terminal High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) and future work with the Next-Generation Interceptor, and the Munitions Acceleration Center in Camden, supporting PAC-3.

The July 29 release identified the PAC-3 award as Lockheed Martin’s second major multiyear contract under the Department of War’s acquisition model, following a $35 billion contract to accelerate production of THAAD interceptors.

In that announcement, Michael P. Duffey, Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment, said the multiyear award provides industry with the long-term demand signals it needs to build a resilient supply chain, scale production and deliver critical capabilities to warfighters. Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and CEO Jim Taiclet said the company is sparing no effort on investment, hiring and facility upgrades as it delivers on the government’s acquisition transformation.

Lockheed Martin characterizes PAC-3 MSE as the world’s most advanced air and missile defense interceptor and describes demand for it as driven by combat-proven performance. The company said that in operational environments during Operation Epic Fury, Ukraine and missions around the world, the interceptor performed beyond specifications to protect critical assets.