ARMY TEST RANGES AND FACILITIES

Abstract

This project provides the institutional funding required to operate the developmental test activities, in accordance with Section 232 of the FY2003 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), required by Department of Defense (DOD) Program Executive Officers, Program and Product Managers, and Research, Development, and Engineering Centers. This project provides resources to operate seven elements of the DoD Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB): White Sands Test Range (WSTC),White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico; High Energy Laser System Test Facility (HELSTF), White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico; Aberdeen Test Center (ATC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Electronic Proving Ground (EPG), Fort Huachuca, Arizona; and Yuma Test Center, Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, Cold Regions Test Center (CRTC) Fort Greely, Alaska and Tropic Regions Test Center (TRTC) at various locations. This project also funds the Army's developmental test capability at Redstone Test Center (RTC), Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Test management and safety verification is also supported by this program element. This project finances the overhead (institutional) test operating cost not appropriately billed to test customers, recurring test infrastructure/capability sustainment requirements, replacement of test equipment, test operating procedures, and test revitalization/upgrade projects to maintain current testing capabilities and improvements to safety, environmental protection, efficiency of test operations, and technological advances. The developmental test capabilities at these test ranges have been uniquely established, are in place to support test and evaluation (T&E) requirements of funded weapons programs, and are required to assure technical performance, adherence to safety requirements, reliability, logistics supportability, Title 10 Live Fire Test and Evaluation and quality of materiel in development and in production. In accordance with the FY03 NDAA, this project funds the indirect test costs associated with the rapid testing of systems and equipment needed in support of the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), such as Individual soldier protection equipment and uparmoring the Army's wheeled vehicle fleet. This project sustains the developmental Test & Evaluation capability required to support Army as well as Joint Service or Other Service systems, materiel, and technologies. Types of systems scheduled for developmental testing include; Aircraft, Air Delivery, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Unmanned Ground Vehicles, Engineering Equipment, Direct fire, Indirect fire, Nonlethal weapons, Ammunition, Automotive Systems, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Ground Soldier System, Missiles, Rockets, Directed Energy Weapons, Network Centric and Command, Control, and Communication. Specific systems supported in FY11 with continued support in FY12 include: Network Integration Evaluations (NIE), personnel protective equipment (including Body Armor), up-armoring vehicle ballistic protection on route clearance vehicles, Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles Long Term Armor Strategy (FMTV LTAS), and Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV); Stryker upgrades; armor gun shields for tactical vehicles; reactive and active armor; Personnel Screening Systems; the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles; Counter-Rocket Artillery Mortar (C-RAM); High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS); Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary Rocket; Unattended Ground Sensors; Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR); Counter Remote Control IED (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (CREW); Warfighter Information Network Tactical (WIN-T); Distributed Common Ground System - Army (DCGS-A); Aviation Transformation (AH-64 Block III); aviation protection systems (Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) and Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM); missile defense (PAC-3), Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), Surfaced Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SLAMRAAM), Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS); Unmanned Aerial Systems (Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems, Extended Range Multi-Purpose, Hunter, RQ-16 Class I UAS, Long Endurance Multi-INT Vehicle (LEMV, Telluride, Raven), Unmanned Ground Vehicles (Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV), Multi-Mission UGV/Common Mobility Platform - ANS), Remote Mine Detection Systems (RMDS), M160, Workhorse, Modular Advanced Armed Robot System (MAARS), Kiowa Warrior Upgrades, CMWS Hostile Fire Indication, Excalibur, Green Ammo, Remote Weapon Station (RWS), Joint Chemical Agent Detector (JCAD) M4El, Net Warrior, Mounted Soldier System (MSS), Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), Aircraft Hostile Fire Detection System (HFDS), Paladim Integrated Management (PIM), and Longbow Hellfire Modular Missile System (LBHMMS). Direct costs are borne by materiel developers in accordance with DoD Directive 3200.11 and DoD Financial Management Regulation 7000.14R.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• Source ID: 0605601A_6_2040_PB_2013
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Aircrafts
• Chemical Warfare Agents
• Department Of Defense
• Detection
• Detectors
• Ground Vehicles
• Infrared Countermeasures
• Infrastructure
• Intelligence Surveillance And Reconnaissance
• Radio Equipment
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Equipment
• Test Facilities
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Ground Vehicles
• Warning Systems

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Military/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technology
• Missile Defense Systems.
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

• AI & ML
• AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
• AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Directed Energy
• Microelectronics