Army Test Ranges and Facilities

This funding supports contractor labor costs not billable to customers. Contract labor is essential to augment core civilian T&E personnel with additional capabilities and/or capacity. Functions performed include range operations, automotive test support, radar maintenance, warehousing support, project management, maintenance of support fleet aircraft, recurring/general maintenance to test facilities and data acquisition support. For some skillsets, there are no government civilians performing the work.

This funding supports the overhead costs of civilian labor. The balance is customer funded. The test customer pays all direct costs that are directly attributable to the use of a test facility or resource for testing of a particular program. Funding is essential to maintain core T&E skills as part of the Government civilian workforce used in support of Army transformation.

Funds support T&E capability sustainment and maintenance of equipment, test facility maintenance, calibration requirements, life cycle replacement, handling and disposal of hazardous materials, transportation, postage, administrative supplies, tools, software, spare parts, test support vehicle maintenance, mission unique installation costs, temporary duty/training of civilian and contractor personnel, certifications, printing and reproduction, communications, land leases, and range road maintenance. Funding supports indirect costs for MRTFB Activities (ATC, EPG, WSTC, YTC (including ARTC & TRTC)) IAW DoDI 3200.18 and DoDFMR 7000.14-R.

This project funding supports pilot and prototype capabilities to enter into Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) and Educational Partnership Agreements (EPAs) to provide rapid solutions to cyber via Technology Transfer (T2) mechanism. T2 enables ARCYBER to "SPIN OUT" its research and development advancements to industry and "SPIN IN" the best solutions from the private sector for the purpose of transitioning new capabilities to our warfighter. Will also have the authority for "Dual use" technologies that have both military and commercial markets to be transferred and transitioned.

Funds support the revitalization/upgrade of critical test infrastructure and capabilities. MRTFB elements are required to use institutional funding to sustain, upgrade or create capabilities that support multiple customers. Funding will be focused on improving T&E capabilities for Army Transformation Programs and other high priority acquisition systems.

MUE is defined as equipment that regulation identifies as "above standard" and necessary to fulfill the specific mission performed in the constructed new facility. MUE generally consists of personal property items that fall under the AR 420-1 definition of equipment-in-place and is not programmed into the MILCON. MUE funding includes procurement and installation of new equipment; and also costs to move existing equipment to be retained into newly constructed facilities. The standard process for MILCON programming is through the Army FIP process managed by AMC; however, ATEC has also had projects added directly through Congressional Legislation.

In FY20, Army policy changed requiring organizational logistics functions be funded by organizational units and not the Army Material Command's Logistics Readiness Centers (LRC). This funding supports those organizational logistics activities previously provided by LRCs to WSTC located at WSMR, YTC located at YPG and WDTC located at DPG. These activities provide a wide range of logistics support services including but not limited to asset management/property book support; equipment maintenance/ repair of ATEC owned maintenance significant items; small arms gaging and repair, dispatch of Army Owned/General Services Administration (GSA) vehicles and equipment; retail fuel support for vehicles and ground power generation equipment; 41 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 102-34 Subpart J - Federal Fleet Report performance data collected through the Federal Automotive Statistical Tool (FAST); ammunition quality assurance and surveillance; driver's licensing; and transportation support for inbound and outbound equipment, freight and cargo.

3 CMEs- Provide contract support (C4IM services) at WSMR to non-Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) customers IAW MOA with ATEC. Supports IMCS contract for touch labor.

U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) / U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Command (DEVCOM), Chemical Biological Center (CBC) Physical Security Officer Support. Ensures one full time equivalent (FTE) support to the Biological Select Agents and Toxins (BSAT) Mission at the Bio-Testing Division of the Chemical Biological Center (BTD-CBC), in accordance with AR 190-17 (Biological Agents and Toxins Security Program). This includes responsibilities related to safety, physical security, anti-terrorism, operations security (OPSEC), information security, and intelligence services.

Provides funding for sustainment and enhancement of the 4DWX system, an advanced meteorological support system that provides high-resolution weather forecasts and analyzes. The 4DWX analyzes and forecasts the 3-dimensional structure of the atmosphere over time (4th dimension) and is used in test planning, conduct, and forensic analyses.

Funding maintains MRTFB test and evaluation (T&E) mission readiness at DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center (CBC) Bio Testing Division (BTD) for biological security laboratory operations, bio-safety risk management, and defensive T&E mission support activities. The Lothar Salomon Life Sciences Test Facility (LSTF) and Baker complex contains biosafety level (BSL) 1, 2, and 3 laboratories for testing biological warfare agents (BWA) detectors, individual protective clothing and equipment, decontamination systems, and material survivability in a BWA contaminated environment. LSTF is the sole DoD facility certified to challenge developmental and operational defensive test equipment with aerosolized BWA, including bacteria, viruses, and biological toxins, in BSL-3 chambers. Represents the MRTFB activity's institutional and overhead costs which cannot be charged to DoD MRTFB users in compliance with DoDI 3200.18 and DoDFMR 7000.14-R.

Supports civilian labor overhead costs for Program Budget Guidance (PBG) authorizations and the balance is customer funded. Test customers pay all costs directly attributable to the use of a test facility or resource for testing of a particular program. Funding is essential to maintain core T&E skills as part of the Government civilian workforce used in support of the Chemical Biological Defense Program (CBDP) mission. WDTC provides a specially trained support staff to operate and maintain all critical testing systems.

Provides for ongoing sustainment of existing chemical test instrumentation and equipment at WDTC necessary for chemical laboratories, chemical/biological field and simulant chamber, data science test mission readiness, and staff functions not chargeable to a test customer. Supports annual service contracts for test equipment operations, diagnostics, calibration, and certification, as well as routine life cycle and use-related replacement of existing field, test related administrative, and analytical instrumentation components and systems. Supports test facility maintenance, handling and disposal of hazardous materials, transportation, postage, administrative supplies, tools, software, spare parts, mission unique installation costs, temporary duty/ training of civilian and contractor personnel, personnel certifications, printing, reproduction, and communications. Funding supports indirect costs for MRTFB IAW DoDI 3200.18 and DoD FMR 7000.14-R.

Supports contractor labor costs not billable to customers. Contract labor is essential to augment core civilian T&E personnel with additional capabilities and/or capacity as well as assist with the operation and maintenance of critical testing systems. Functions performed include chemical and biological analysis, field support, planning, report documentation as well as range operations, warehousing support, project management, recurring/general maintenance to test facilities and data acquisition support. For some skillsets, there are no government civilians performing the work.

This funding supports the NEC operations for WSMR and YPG. Funding supports manpower and contracts, support equipment and associated costs specifically identified and measurable to plan, manage, coordinate, and execute Communication, Network, and Information Technology Services Management.

This funding supports the Aviation Restructure Initiative endorsed by the SECDEF. Funding supports aircraft maintenance, aircrew labor, mandatory training, and aircraft flying hours. IAW DoDI 3200.18 and DoDFMR 7000.14-R, these costs are not billable to the test customers. UH-60 helicopters are used to provide essential logistical, sensor platform and aerial photo/video documentation support for developmental testing. Funds will continue to support UH-60 helicopter maintenance, aircrew labor, mandatory training, and aircraft flying hours.

Funding supports security guard forces mandated by regulations and annual vulnerability assessments for ATEC's surety-related test sites which are positioned on isolated and remote locations. Funding supports required acquisition, maintenance, sustainment and operation of extensive physical security equipment (PSE) requirement, robust communications equipment to address significant isolated and remote location difficulties, vehicle lease and associated police package requirements, personal protective equipment (PPE) for both chemical and nuclear requirements, operations, functions, institutional and sustainment training, new equipment training, and exercises, to include annual vulnerability assessments and guard force support to Nuclear Incident Response and Assistance (NIRA) and Chemical Incident/Mishap Response and Assistance (CIMRA). These guards secure and protect ATEC's special nuclear material within the command's Fast Burst Nuclear Reactor (FBR) and all associated classified test material at White Sands Test Center (WSTC) located at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) IAW Army Regulation (AR) 190-54 (Security of Nuclear Reactors and Special Nuclear Materials). The guards also secure and protect Chemical and Biological (Chem/Bio) facilities at West Desert Test Center (WDTC) located at Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) IAW AR 190-59 (Chemical Agent Security Program) and AR 190-17 (Biological Agents and Toxins Security Program). These surety facilities maintain chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) materials and agents in order to test the effects and effectiveness of defensive or protective equipment and measures. Physical security equipment consists of electronic security systems (ESS) composed of access/egress control systems, day/night/and adverse-environment capable camera systems, sensors and detection arrays, and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). Costs include sustainment of maintenance contracts for equipment not included in the Army inventory but required by other federal agencies with regulatory and operational oversight of surety-related testing. This equipment is necessary to secure arms rooms, ammunition, explosives (AA&E) storage facilities at the FBR, and Chem/Bio surety sites. Physical security equipment is critical to maintain current security requirements as directed in: AR 190-54, AR 190-56, AR 190-59, AR 190-17, AR 190-11, AR 190-13, and AR 190-51. Funding enables ATEC to sustain support to Army Transformation and its expanded requirements to include large increases in volume of test planning and test. Additionally, funding addresses increases in physical security and guard force requirements in support of ATEC's assignment of direct support mission to Army Futures Command (AFC) and associated requirements to include support to major exercises including projects Capstone 5, Convergence and EDGE. Funding provides training and certification of guards to operate and maintain ESS equipment and qualification of all weapon systems and surety-related personal protective equipment (PPE) requisite to their surety security missions. Funding is used to execute and maintain regulatory required Personnel Reliability Program (PRP).

This requirement supports compliance with DoD Directive (DoDD) 8530.1 and DoDI, which directed that all component information systems and computer networks be assigned to a certified CSSP and that all information systems and computer networks must enter into a service agreement with a CSSP. United States (U.S.) Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) Operations Order (OPORD) 2014-224 directed all Commands/Direct Reporting Units (DRU) to take immediate measures to ensure Army assets connected to Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) and Secure Defense Research and Engineering Network (SDREN) enclaves are aligned with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory as their CSSP to ensure cyber defense oversight and information security continuous monitoring going forward.