Desert Region
In addition to maintaining a strong presence at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground since 1990, our Desert Region support personnel provide a full spectrum of services to the White Sands Missile Range and several other Army bases in the southwestern United States.
Our Desert Region support personnel offer their extensive collection of specific and dedicated services to each of our customers. Our engineers are specialized professionals providing planning, design, hazardous material training, construction assistance, alterations, and testing support. The Operations and Maintenance pages details the extensive range of available TRAX services. Our Desert Region personnel are proven experts in the following range test areas:
- Combat & Automotive
- Munitions & Weapons
- Counter-terrorism & Counter-insurgency
- Aviation & Air Delivery
- Operations & Maintenance
- Ammunition Supply & Test Logistics
- Instrumentation & Test Engineering
- Technical Reporting & Data Management
TRAX also provides automotive engineering test support for general and special purpose vehicles including tracked and combat support vehicles, agricultural equipment, amphibious, and wheeled vehicles. Automotive testing is performed on eight special test courses over natural desert terrain, prepared test slopes and obstacles, a two mile paved dynamometer course, a water spray simulator, vehicle swimming basins, and a mud basin.
In support of our ordnance operations, we provide ammunition logistics, recovery, and plant support; conditioning chamber operations; and artillery testing. Our environmental engineers and technicians operate and maintain the environmental chambers and support equipment.