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Engility Looking To Offer New Modular Shooting Range To Military Customers

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, January 3rd, 2019

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Engility Looking To Offer New Modular Shooting Range To Military Customers

Inside of Engility's QuickRange modular live-fire shooting range. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

Engility [EGL] is looking to offer its new virtualized “shooting range in a shipping container” to military customers in 2019 following a recent selection to compete for Department of Homeland Security work, company officials told Defense Daily. Peter Joyal, division director of Engility’s Hollywood, Maryland facility, said the company has had discussions with military customers interested in its QuickRange modular live-fire range as the services express continued interest in acquiring a virtualized, contained weapons training capability. “We’ve had potential customers…

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