PMRF. Missiles fired from the nearby range are tracked by the systems inside the room. BY PAUL C. CURTIS TGI Staff Writer If all goes well for ITT Systems, it will remain the civilian contractor at the Navy’s Pacific Missile
PMRF. Missiles fired from the nearby range are tracked by the systems inside
the room.
BY PAUL C. CURTIS
TGI Staff Writer
If all goes well for
ITT Systems, it will remain the civilian contractor at the Navy’s Pacific
Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands on the Westside for the next decade or
so.
U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink (D-2nd District) announced a $30.3 million Navy
contract has been awarded to ITT Systems, a division of ITT Industries
Inc.
The award is likely for the federal fiscal year beginning this Sunday,
and is the second installment of a nine-year contract which includes a phase-in
period, a base year and nine option years.
If all the options are
exercised, the total contract is valued at more than $308 million.
ITT
Federal Services Corp., the local entity responsible for base operations and
maintenance at PMRF, employs 495 people, making it one of Kauai’s largest
employers.
Of the nearly 500 employees, 103 are on-call workers.
The
grant Mink announced will be used for base and range operation support
services. PMRF is the world’s largest instrumented, multi-environmental
training and testing range. It blends subsurface, surface, air and space
missile regimes.
“This grant will provide that the Navy’s training facility
in Kaua’i continues to produce and sustain the world’s best-trained soldiers,”
Mink said.
Staff writer Paul C. Curtis can be reached at 245-3681
(ext. 224) and pcurtis@pulitzer.net
