Tag Archives: Pacific Missile Range Facility

Koa Lani, a joint venture between Amentum and Kupono, will perform range and base operations for the U.S. Navy under a potential 10-year, $854 million contract. "Amentum is poised and ready to leverage our decades of expertise in support of this essential test and training mission,” said John Bozarth, senior vice president of business development for Amentum’s mission readiness strategic unit.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has reached a new milestone for the BQM-177A subsonic aerial target with the delivery of its 100th production unit to Naval Air Systems Command.

Manu Kai has received a 12-month, $90M bridge contract from the U.S. Navy to help manage the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii.

A Raytheon-built air and missile defense radar has identified multiple targets during a recent test held at the U.S. Navy‘s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. AN/SPY-6(V) worked to identify, track and intercept threats simultaneously, as well as intercepted a ballistic missile target, the company said Wednesday. The test followed …

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin an $11.6M contract to operate and support the Aegis Combat System that the military uses to detect and counter enemy missiles. The company will also provide these services for the Aegis’ multi-mission signal processor, vertical launch system, command and decision system, weapon …

Raytheon has demonstrated a company-made air and missile defense radar against multiple missile targets at the U.S. Navy‘s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. AN/SPY-6(V) worked to simultaneously detect and track a short-range ballistic missile target and multiple anti-ship cruise missile targets during the demonstration, which marks the radar’s third flight …

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has offered its short range ballistic missile system to support U.S. Navy testing activities on the AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar. The company said Thursday that the AN/SPY-6(V) system acquired and tracked the movement of the Kratos Space and Missile Defense Systems-built SRBM technology which was …

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has provided a live ballistic missile target for the U.S. Navy‘s test of an air and missile defense radar on July 27. The Raytheon-made AN/SPY-6(V) radar worked to acquire and track Kratos’ medium range ballistic missile target that was launched from the Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in …

Raytheon has demonstrated an air and missile defense radar platform during the second ballistic missile flight test held at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. The Raytheon-built AN/SPY-6(V) radar searched and tracked a long-range ballistic missile test target as well as satellites and aircraft during the live test flight, …

The Missile Defense Agency has posted a request for information on a high altitude, long endurance unmanned aircraft system that can provide support in the 2023 timeframe. MDA said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice that the UAS should be able to carry a high energy laser system payload to high altitudes to mature boost phase intercept, …

Raytheon has showcased a company-built air and missile defense radar system during a ballistic missile defense exercise held at the U.S. Navy‘s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. The exercise tested if Raytheon’s AN/SPY-6 radar could acquire, search and track a ballistic missile target and the test followed a series of activities in which the platform helped …

Orbital ATK and the Missile Defense Agency have demonstrated the company’s updated MK 136 Third Stage Rocket Motor nozzle aboard Raytheon‘s Standard Missile Block IB at the U.S. Navy‘s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. The company said Tuesday the missiles were fired from a Navy Aegis destroyer off the coast of Kauai to …

Raytheon and the Missile Defense Agency have validated the third stage rocket motor update for the updated Standard Missile-3 Block IB following completion of a flight test. MDA and Raytheon tested the in-flight performance of the SM-3 rocket motor following previous ground tests, the company said Thursday. The updated missile will join …

The Missile Defense Agency has collaborated with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Pacific Command to demonstrate the target detection features of a Lockheed Martin-built Aegis weapon system installed on the USS John Paul Jones guided-missile destroyer. MDA said Tuesday the Aegis Baseline 9.C1 Weapon System worked to detect and track a medium-range ballistic missile target …

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has evaluated a ground-based Aegis ballistic missile defense system in conjunction with a Raytheon-built Standard Missile-3 Block IB at an outdoor testing complex in Kauai, Hawaii. MDA said Thursday the Aegis Ashore system installed at the Pacific Missile Range Facility fired an SM-3 missile at a …