ITT Provides Support to USAF Missile Ranges

WGS-2 Launchesfrom Cape Canaveral(click to view full) ITT Corp.’s Systems Division in Cape Canaveral, FL received a $7 million task order to support the US Air Force’s Eastern and Western missile ranges. The task order was issued as part of a 10-year, $1.3 billion contract awarded to ITT by the USAF. The contract calls for ITT to modernize the USAF Spacelift Range System (SLRS). This work includes support for spacecraft launch, as well as ballistic missile and aeronautical testing. Under the contract, ITT supports the USAF Eastern Range at Cape Canaveral Air Station and the Western Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Work includes systems engineering, instrumentation modernization design and development, configuration and data management, software maintenance and depot level maintenance. The SLRS consists of ground based surveillance, navigation, flight operations and analysis, communications and weather assets used to support space missions. The SLRS performs the following functions: * collects, processes and distributes data for safety, test and evaluation, and command and control; * provides communications between instrumentation sites, control centers, and outside ranges, facilities and organizations; * supports military, civilian and commercial suborbital, orbital and interplanetary launches; * tests and evaluates ballistic missiles, guided weapons and aeronautical […]