Army Test Ranges and Facilities

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) provides the institutional funding required to operate test activities in accordance with Public Law 107-314 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003) Section 232 ("Objective for institutional funding of test and evaluation facilities") in support of Department of Defense (DoD) Program Executive Officers, Program and Product Managers, Research, Development, and Engineering Centers and to the Army Futures Command. Resources provided by this PE 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; 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 $5.5 Billion of testing capabilities; and improvements to the safety, environmental protection, and efficiency of test operations. 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, cyber, 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, but are not limited to: Aircraft, Air Delivery, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Counter 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 Systems, Missiles, Rockets, Mission Command Network, Tactical Command, Control, and Communications, and Robotics/Unmanned Autonomous Systems. Specific systems supported in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 with continued support in FY 2020 include: Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), Stryker (30mm, ICV), Joint Assault Bridge, Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV), Mobile Protective Firepower, Warfighter Information Network Tactical (WIN-T), AN/ TPQ53 Radar, Distributed Common Ground Sensor - Army (DCGS-A), Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3), Joint Air-to-Ground Missile, Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD), M109A7 Family of Vehicles, XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement (CDTE), Gray Eagle Extended Range Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit (HMS) Man Pack Radio, Soldier Protective System, Precision Guidance Kit (PGK), Marine Corp Amphibious Combat Vehicle, Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA), Autonomous Ground Resupply Safety Test (AGR), Improved-Forward Looking Infrared (I-FLIR), Precision Strike Munition (PrSM), Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Next Generation Squad Weapon Automatic Rifle, Robotic Combat Vehicle, Next Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV), Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), Maneuver Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD).

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0605601A_6_2040_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Ammunition
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Cybersecurity
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detectors
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • National Security
  • Physical Security
  • Short Range Air Defense
  • Short Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Facilities

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • 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
  • Cyber
  • Microelectronics

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