Army Test Ranges and Facilities

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) provides the institutional funding required to operate test activities, in accordance with Section 232 of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), in support of Department of Defense (DoD) Program Executive Officers, Program and Product Managers, and Research, Development, and Engineering Centers. Resources provided by this project operate six elements of the DoD Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB): White Sands Test Center (WSTC),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 (YTC), Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona; Cold Regions Test Center (CRTC), Fort Greely, Alaska; and Tropic Regions Test Centers (TRTC) at various locations. This PE also funds the Army's test capability at Redstone Test Center (RTC), Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. This PE finances the overhead (institutional) test operating costs not billable to DoD test customers per Department of Defense Instruction (DODI) 3200.18 and Department of Defense Financial Management Regulation (DODFMR) 7000.14-R, which include 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 test capabilities at these 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, transportability, environmental effects, electromagnetic effects, and quality of materiel in development and in production. This PE sustains the T&E capability required to support Army as well as Joint Service or Other Service systems, materiel, and technologies. Types of systems scheduled for testing include: Aircraft, Air Delivery, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Unmanned Ground Vehicles, Air and Missile Defense Systems, Engineering Equipment, Direct fire, Indirect fire, Nonlethal weapons, Ammunition, Automotive Systems, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Ground Soldier System, Missiles, Rockets, Mission Command Network, and Tactical Command, Control, and Communication. Specific systems supported include: Network Integration Evaluation (NIE), Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), Rifleman Radio, defense (PAC-3), Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD), Paladin Integrated Management, XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement (CDTE), Gray Eagle, Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit (HMS) Man Pack Radio, Soldier Protective System, M829E4 120MM Advanced Kinetic Energy, Precision Guidance Kit (PGK), and Mid-tier Networking Vehicular Radios (MNVR).

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Source ID
0605601A_6_2040_PB_2018
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Control Systems
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Financial Management
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Indirect Fire
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • National Security
  • Physical Security
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Facilities

Readers

  • Military/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technology
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Microelectronics

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