Yearlong delay hits operational test of Alaska-based missile defense radar April 30
Clear Air Force Station’s $347 million Long Range Discrimination Radar complex is seen June 6, 2018. (John Budnik/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON The U.S. Air Force’s ballistic missile defense radar being installed at Clear Air Force Station, Alaska, won’t have its only operational flight test for another year, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. The Long Range Discrimination Radar was supposed to have its flight test in the third quarter of fiscal 2021 after two ground tests, but the coronavirus pandemic, which has affected the program overall, has resulted in the need to move the test back to the final quarter of fiscal 2022.
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By WYATT OLSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: March 3, 2021 FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii The Missile Defense Agency is once again seeking public feedback on potential locations in Hawaii for a radar defense array in Hawaii after earlier dropping two proposed sites in the wake of public opposition. The agency is evaluating two sites for the Homeland Defense Radar, which would identify, track and classify long-range ballistic missile threats while still in mid-course flight. The sites being considered are the U.S. Army Kahuku Training Area on the northern tip of Oahu and the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai. Two sites on Oahu in earlier consideration have been dropped, the agency said in a notice first published last month in the Federal Register.
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Graduates of the first ETT collaboration in 2012 between the fire department and the school ended up saving the volunteer fire department. Here they proudly pose with then EMS director Rob Graham. Three of them are still in careers involving emergency medicine. Photo courtesy Tri-Valley Volunteer Fire Department.