TRAX Wins Major Yuma Test Range Support Contract

JPADS 10k test, Yuma(click to view full) TRAX International Corp. in La Vegas, NV received a $222.4 million cost plus award fee contract for test and evaluation services in support of military weapons and equipment test and evaluation at Yuma Proving Ground, AZ and Cold Region Test Center at Bolio Lake, Alaska. Bids were solicited via the Internet, and 5 bids were received. Mission & Installation contracting Command at Yuma Proving Ground, AZ manages the contract (W9124R-09-C-0003), which will last until Feb 28/13. See also TRAX release, which places the contract’s total potential value at $477 million over its entire term. Yuma Proving Ground is a U.S. Army test range, used to test munitions of all calibers, artillery weapons, tanks, tactical vehicles, aircraft armament systems, smart munitions, UAVs, and other military equipment, with specialized facilities that include cold weather and tropical locations, as well as the new National Counter-Terrorism/Counter-Insurgency Integrated Test and Evaluation Center (NACCITEC). For the first time in its history, YPG’s Yuma Test Center alone has exceeded 2 million direct labor man-hours in a single fiscal year, a result of steady growth in most mission areas and a large spike in its automotive workload.