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Multi-purpose Training Range
Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania
USACE
HSW was selected to provide a complete design package for this $15 million multi-purpose training range (MPTR) for the Pennsylvania National Guard. The purpose of the project is to provide a two-lane range for M1 tanks and Bradley Fighting vehicles to support the armored vehicle familiarization and qualification requirements. The site is in mountainous terrain and will require extensive grading and drainage work. Primary features of the range include two course roads, thirty stationary armor targets (SAT), four moving armor targets (MAT), sixty-four stationary infantry targets (SIT), eight defilade positions, and sixteen bore sight lifters. The design package includes multi-disciplined tasks to prepare construction drawings, specifications, design analysis, cost estimates, special contract clauses, and project information documentation using a combination of Pennsylvania National Guard and Huntsville range design standards, modified to account for the difficult terrain.

The scope included converting existing LIDAR survey data into 3-D metric contours, geotechnical studies, 65%, 95%, and 100% design submittals, review meetings, comment consolidation and response using DrChecks, and engineering services during construction. Civil/site work, electrical power, fiber optic data cable, and support facilities represented the most significant design elements. Of special concern on this range was line-of-sight calculations to assure targets could be seem from each firing position along the tank trail at 15 meter intervals. The project includes the standard two tier defilade positions to be located directly adjacent to the tank trails.