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Welcome to Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands

Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands (PMRF) is the world's largest instrumented multi-domain range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air, and space operations simultaneously. There are over 1,100 square miles of instrumented underwater range and over 42,000 square miles of controlled airspace.

Installation Information

Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands is a premier facility for supporting operations which vary from small, single-unit exercises up to largescale, multiple-unit battle group scenarios.


A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor missile is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the mid-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo)

Welcome Aboard Guide link for newcomers

Frequently Called Phone Numbers

Visitor Center Pass & ID            808-335-4221
MWR Guest Pass Program        808-335-7936
MWR Beach Cottages/NGIS      808-335-4752
MWR Outdoor Adventure           808-335-4379
Public Affairs                             808-335-4740
Range Ops Access Schedule      808-335-4229
Shenanigans Restaurant            808-335-4707

 

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News from around PMRF Barking Sands

  • Navy Region Hawaiiʻs On-Going Environmental Stewardship Mission

    Apr 12, 2024

    The professionals working throughout Navy Region Hawaii understand there is a balance to strike between supporting the afloat and ashore warfighters and the mission of protecting and maintaining the natural resources on and around the installations. The U.S. Congress recognized the need for this balance in the 1960s when it passed the Sikes Act, which called for service branches under the Department of Defense to establish a program to manage natural resources on their military bases.

  • Success is Only in You

    Mar 25, 2024

    KEKAHA, Hawaii – Damage Controlman, Corpsman, Crash Fire, Dental Technician, Combat Medic and now Security Training Officer at Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands, Kelly Capuano has had a variety of job descriptions. After serving in the Navy and the Hawaii Army National Guard, Capuano found herself back at home on the island of Kauai and has been working on PMRF since 2006. 

  • Q&A with Command Senior Chief Emanuel Bolton

    Feb 26, 2024

    Insight from Command Senior Chief Emanuel Bolton, who answers questions and offers advice.

  • Nurturing Nene

    Jan 15, 2024

    KEKAHA, Hawaii –The Hawaiian nene is Hawaii’s state bird and is currently considered endangered by the state of Hawaii. As new infrastructure and predators were introduced to the Hawaiian islands, the population reached an extreme low of roughly 30 birds in the 1950’s according to the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife, but with the help of state-wide conservation efforts the birds have made a significant comeback with as many as 637 individual nene documented on PMRF alone.

  • Egg-squisite Translocation

    Dec 18, 2023

    KEKAHA, Hawaii – Since 2005, the environmental team at PMRF Barking Sands has been working with the Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) initiative in conducting the annual Laysan Albatross Translocation Program.

PMRF KPGO Fact Sheet

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