Pacific Missile Range Facility Intercept Test Support. Environmental Assessment/Overseas Environmental Assessment

Download or read book Pacific Missile Range Facility Intercept Test Support. Environmental Assessment/Overseas Environmental Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Navy has prepared this Environmental Assessment/Overseas Environmental Assessment (EA/OEA) to evaluate and disclose the environmental consequences of updating the capabilities of the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Kauai, HI to support future tests of Ballistic Missile Defense intercept technologies. The Proposed Action for this EA/OEA is to further enhance the intercept capabilities of missile defense tests at PMRF. The Proposed Action would support and maintain future Department of Defense (Army, Navy), Missile Defense Agency, and other potential customers' research, development, test, and evaluation activities, and associated range capabilities (including hardware and infrastructure improvements). The Proposed Action would also include testing defensive missile systems such as the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense program, which would adapt the Aegis Standard Missile and AN/SPY-1 Radar for land-based operations. These programs would involve the placement of additional landbased systems at PMRF, including required missile launcher, radar, and support facilities.