The Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Centerâs targets team launched a Pathfinder Zombie target May 19 from the Hebrides Range in Scotland during the ongoing At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield 2021 exercise.
The purpose of At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield 2021, which includes approximately 10 nations participating with ships, aircraft, ground assets and deployed staff, is to improve allied interoperability in a joint live-fire Integrated Air and Missile Defense environment. SMDC played a role in the exercise by internationally shipping a fully integrated round for the first time.
âThis was my first mission as test director for SMDC. Leading this team of professionals in the first international Pathfinder Zombie launch was an honor for me and being in Scotland was pretty special within itself,â Pamela Galloway, mission test director, Targets Test Directorate, Technical Center, said. âWe provided a successful target at the planned launch time and appeared to hav
15 REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center’s targets team launched a Pathfinder Zombie target May 19 from the Hebrides Range in Scotland during the ongoing At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield 2021 exercise.
The purpose of At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield 2021, which includes approximately 10 nations participating with ships, aircraft, ground assets and deployed staff, is to improve allied interoperability in a joint live-fire Integrated Air and Missile Defense environment. USASMDC played a role in the exercise by internationally shipping a fully integrated round for the first time.
“This was my first mission as test director for SMDC. Leading this team of professionals in the first international Pathfinder Zombie launch was an honor for me and being in Scotland was pretty special within itself,” said Pamela R. Galloway, mission test director, Targets Test Directorate, Technical Center. “We provided a successful tar
The Defense Department on March 19 successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii. The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army jointly executed the launch of a common hypersonic glide body, which flew at hypersonic speed to a designated impact point. Image: Army
Peraton has won a U.S. Army Hypersonic Test Engineering, Mission Planning and Systems, or HyTEMPS, contract, valued at up to $44 million over 2 years.
Under the contract, Peraton will provide comprehensive mission support for interservice flight test missions. The company will also develop hardware and software solutions associated with the development, maintenance and sustainment, and operations of mission and test systems.
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HERNDON, Va., March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Peraton has been awarded a U.S. Army contract for Hypersonic Test Engineering, Mission Planning and Systems (HyTEMPS), valued at up to $44 million over two years.
This award builds upon Peraton s more than 10 years of experience supporting the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) Technical Center and its mission to develop hypersonic vehicle technologies and provide hypersonic weapon and vehicle flight testing capabilities.
Under the contract, Peraton will be responsible for providing comprehensive mission support for interservice flight test missions, deploying whenever and wherever needed to ensure flight test events are successfully executed. To support these test events, Peraton will develop hardware and software solutions associated with the development, maintenance and sustainment, and operations of mission and test systems.