PCCI, Inc. recently received Department of the Air Force, Air Armament Center, approval of its Phase 1 Final Report documenting PCCI efforts to design a stable, survivable target platform to support live and inert large footprint weapon test and training in the Gulf of Mexico.

Under Phase 1 of the contract, awarded in April 2006, PCCI, with subcontract assistance from MMI Engineering, Inc. (Oakland, CA), developed two competing concepts to provide an approximate five acre test platform meeting Air Force objectives.  The competing designs included: (1) a floating, concrete hull with steel truss target areas, moored using 20 anchor legs to the seabed, and (2) a fixed, steel, two level deck structure supported by six four-leg steel tubular towers.

Phase 2 of the contract, which includes model basin testing of the floating concept, and continued preliminary design work, is now underway.