Test and Evaluation Support

Abstract

Test facilities, capabilities and resources operated through this program include wind tunnels, rocket and jet engine test cells, armament test ranges, hardware-in-the-loop test facilities, climatic test facilities, avionics test facilities, aircraft testbeds, dry lakebed landing sites, instrumented test ranges, civilian payroll, and contractor services. It also provides resources for maintaining and modifying as required Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) assigned test and test support coded aircraft. No acquisition contracts are funded from this program; test support contracts for services and supplies and equipment are predominantly awarded on the basis of full and open competition. This program is in Budget Activity 6, RDT&E Management Support, because this budget activity includes research, development, test, and evaluation efforts and funds to sustain and/or modernize the installations or operations required for general research, development, test and evaluation.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Source ID
0605807F_6_3600_PB_2018
Change Summary Explanation
FY17: $18.8 million is required to address emergency war fighting requirements as part of the Fiscal Year(FY) 2017 Request for Additional Appropriations. The funding will provide $14.4 million of additional F-15 flying hours and contract maintenance labor to support on-going developmental test efforts avoiding critical delays and $4.4 million for cyber test infrastructure to support early detection of cyber vulnerabilities. FY18: $6.109 million increase related to additional funding for weapon system cyber resiliency testing, manpower/civilian pay moves in and out of the PE associated with the 5 Center Reorganization and reporting of management headquarters personnel, and adjustments for economic assumptions associated with nonpay/nonfuel inflation and fuel pricing. Also, included in the total is an increase of $1.827 million for a civilian pay raise.
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Jet Engines
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Software Development
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Facilities
  • Turbines
  • Weapon Delivery
  • Wind Tunnels

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.

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