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Special Equipment for Test and Evaluation
Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $52.5M |
| FY25 | $90.7M |
| FY26 | $93.8M |
All series figures: P-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $76.9M | $88.8M | $52.5M | ||
| Enacted | – | $88.8M | $52.5M | $90.7M | |
| Request | – | – | $52.5M | $90.7M | $93.8M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Description — Special Equipment for Test and Evaluation
This funding line supports testing of Army Modernization Priority Programs. Special Equipment for User Testing is comprised of multiple programs for the Major Developmental & Operational Testing Instrumentation and Army Threat Simulator Program. Program provides funding for Major Operational Testing Instrumentation, Major Field Instrumentation for Operational Testing (OT), Force Development Testing and Experimentation (FDTE), and Army Warfighting Experiments (AWE). Initiatives are tied to tactical and instrumentation systems that support each of the five joint functional concepts outlined in the Army Modernization Plan (Force Application; Protection; Focused Logistics; Battlespace Awareness; Command and Control). The Army Threat Simulator Program procures actual foreign hardware and Non-Developmental Items (NDI) (e.g., chassis, subsystems, commercial equipment, or actual threat weapons), which are integrated into a threat simulator design for user testing and training. The program also procures a variety of test assets, such as Threat Battle Command Force, Advanced Jammer Suite, Advanced Electronic Support Sensor Suite, and spares for Threat Operations. Special Equipment for User Testing programs provides support at: Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) and Operational Test Command (OTC) facilities to include Transformation Technology Directorate (TTD) at Fort Cavazos, TX; Fire Support Test Directorate (FSTD) at Fort Sill, OK; Airborne Special Operations Test Directorate (ABSOTD) at Fort Liberty, NC; Air Defense Artillery Test Directorate (ADATD) and Electronic Proving Ground (EPG) at Fort Huachuca, AZ; Aberdeen Test Center (ATC); Redstone Test Center (RTC); White Sands Test Center (WSTC); and Yuma Test Center (YTC). Optics Modernization will provide a cost-effective and technologically superior replacement for the aging fleet of optical tracking systems at WSTC, YTC, ATC, RTC and OTC. This capability will consist of two different optical tracking systems: a small, highly dynamic Close-In Optical Tracking System readily deployed at ground level or on elevated platforms; and a medium-sized Fly-Out Optical Tracking System to accommodate larger payloads for longer range imaging requirements. Both systems will incorporate multi-waveband optics and sensors to allow simultaneous sensing in visible and infrared bands. Remote operability, weatherization, and improved data fusion with other range sensor systems will provide the efficiency and robustness unavailable with current architecture. Optics Modernization supports the Long Range Precision Fires, Next Generation Combat Vehicle, Future Vertical Lift and Air & Missile Defense Cross-Functional teams. Equipment in this line is dual purposed as needed to support Army Training.
Justification
Justification — Special Equipment for Test and Evaluation
In FY 2026, Optics Modernization funding in the amount of $69.276 million will provide for the procurement of nine Close-In systems. These systems will be used at White Sands Test Center (WSTC), Yuma Test Center (YTC) and Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) in support of developmental testing requirements in support of Long Range Precision Fires and Hypersonic Missile testing. This program leveraged OSD/CTEIP funded development in order to provide modernized optical tracking systems with enhanced capabilities. In FY 2026, Threat Systems funding in the amount of $24.501 Million procures multiple threat systems (Electronic Warfare (EW); Command, Control, and Communications; and Advanced Jamming) required to support the developmental and operational testing and training of network centric threat scenarios. These threat scenarios are critical to integrating digital battlefield data collection and analysis tools that support the establishment of robust command and control capabilities. Threat jammers provide capability to test systems across the entire Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum (HF to Ka bands) and will fulfill developmental and operational test requirements for ongoing multi-domain operations by 2028. Funding will be used to procure threat validated jammers with new advanced, threat specific antennas, including advanced array systems, to maintain threat EW realism for the Army Test and Evaluation Command's (ATEC) testing environment. Funding will also procure additional Time Difference of Arrival and Angle of Arrival direction finding systems. These systems are directly tied to ATEC threat priorities and required to represent a near-peer environment. Funding will procure multiple radar emitters to address threat radar shortfalls (VHF, UHF, Ku and Ka Bands), advanced ground and aerial sensor systems, low power ground surveillance systems, and other threat sensor systems employing non-RF applications (acoustic, seismic, and electro-optical/infrared) based on ATEC priorities. These systems are required to ensure testing is being conducted in a dense RF environment representative of the modern threat picture. Funding also procures closed loop radar threat systems in the X band and Ku band for testing Future Vertical Lift and other aerial platforms. Base funding will provide in deploy, operate, and secure Threat Systems capabilities in accordance with OSD and Army Digital Engineering and Software Modernization Strategies. Efforts will promote synergies between the training and testing enablers to improve product integration, deployment, and cyber activities, and to promote re-use of common assets and services to meet Army modernization priorities. In accordance with Section 1815 of the FY 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 110-181), this item is necessary for use by the active and reserve components of the Armed Forces for homeland defense missions, domestic emergency responses, and providing military support to civil authorities.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $52.5M |
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $90.7M |
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $93.8M |
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY26 Total | $93.8M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $205.1M | $52.5M | $90.7M | $93.8M | $93.8M |
Follow the dollar
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Awards
No awards are linked to this program element at high or medium confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Special Equipment for Test and Evaluation. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O296
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O303
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O303
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.
Other Procurement - BA 3, 4 & 6 - Other Support Equipment, Initial Spares and Agile Portfolio Management · www.asafm.army.mil
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