Army Test Ranges and Facilities

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) provides the institutional funding required to operate developmental 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 (AFC). Resources provided by this PE operate eight elements of the DoD Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB): White Sands Test Center (WSTC) - White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), New Mexico; Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) - Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Maryland; Electronic Proving Ground (EPG) - Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Yuma Test Center (YTC) - Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), Arizona; Cold Regions Test Center (CRTC) - Fort Greely, Alaska; Tropic Regions Test Centers (TRTC) at various locations; and West Desert Test Center (WDTC) and Bio Testing Division (BTD) at Dugway Proving Ground (DPG), Utah. 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 DoD Instruction (DoDI) 3200.18 and DoD 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 $8.6 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 and are designated as national assets needed to support test and evaluation (T&E) requirements of funded acquisition 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 Modernization as well as other Army, Joint, 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, Air and Missile Defense Systems, Engineering Equipment, Direct fire, Indirect fire, Ammunition, Automotive Systems both manned and unmanned, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Ground Soldier Systems, Missiles, Rockets, Mission Command Network, Tactical Command, Control, and Communications, Robotics/Unmanned Autonomous Systems, Soldier Lethality, Assured Position, Navigation and Timing, Title 10 Live-Fire Survivability, Nuclear survivability, directed energy, and extreme natural environments. These T&E capabilities enable Army Futures Command modernization efforts and readiness. This funding line supports testing of Army Modernization Priority Programs.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: 0605601A_6_2040_PB_2025
• Change Summary Explanation: Funding decrease reflects a slight change in overall civilian pay funding.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Readers

• Aerospace Test and Evaluation
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Military/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technology

Technology Areas

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