USAF Awards BAH $38.4M Contract to Support Space Launch Range Modernization
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The US Air Force’s Launch and Range Systems Wing (LRSW) awarded a $38.4 million contract to a team led by Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, VA to provide systems engineering support to the US Launch & Test Range System (LTRS).
Under the contract (FA8811-09-C-0006), Booz Allen’s team will provide systems engineering and integration (SE&I) support to modernize the US space launch ranges operated by the LRSW’s Spacelift Range Group in Los Angeles, CA. The BAH team includes Arinc, Cirrus Technology, Ensco, and Lockheed Martin Enterprise Integration.
The 4-year contract also provides a risk reduction and capability maturation program to develop and maintain current and future space launch architectures…
LTRS consists of ground-based surveillance, navigation, flight operations and analysis, command and control, communications and weather assets located at the Eastern Range (Patrick Air Force Base, FL) and the Western Range (Vandenberg AFB, CA) for space missions. LTRS provides the US Department of Defense, NASA, and commercial customers an integrated system to support spacecraft launch, ballistic missile and aeronautical testing.
The majority of the equipment supporting the ranges was installed during the 1960s and 1970s. Multiple LTRS upgrade efforts are underway including the Range Standardization and Automation (RSA) program, ongoing Instrumentation Modernization (IM) projects, numerous recapitalization efforts, and various depot support projects to reduce operations and sustainment costs. The current modernization efforts will replace approximately 20% of the system.
