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Combat Training Centers Support

ArmyProcurementReconciledBLI1780MA6600
What it is
Combat Training Centers Support (1780MA6600) is an Army procurement line funded in the Other Procurement, Army account.
What changed
+$10.3M FY25→26 P-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No company is linked to this line. Award records do not carry the program element, so the crosswalk is silent here — why.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals
$61.1MP-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Enacted
$38.7MP-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$49.0MP-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
+$10.3MP-1 TOA · PB2026
Data coverage

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

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.FY24: $61.1MFY25: $38.7MFY26: $49.0MFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$61.1M
FY25$38.7M
FY26$49.0M

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

5 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2022–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line falls across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
5 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2022–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line falls across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

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.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
SeriesFY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$95.0M$48.0M$61.1M
Enacted–$48.0M$56.6M$38.7M
Request––$56.6M$40.7M$49.0M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $56.6M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $61.1M as actual total obligation authority — $4.50M above the request. 61.1 − 56.6 = 4.5 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.

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 — Combat Training Centers Support

The Combat Training Centers (CTCs) are the Army's premiere collective training centers. The CTCs provide high-fidelity Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) Brigade training rotations which prepare Brigade Combat Teams, Joint partners, and supporting units to deploy in support of the Army's Sustainable Readiness Model (SRM). The CTC program supports the National Training Center (NTC), the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), and the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC). The CTCs primary goal is to develop agile and adaptive leaders at the tactical, operational and strategic levels while providing BCTs the core training necessary to conduct decisive action in a dynamic operating environment. The Combat Training Center Instrumentation System (CTC-IS) is a communications, analysis and feedback system that provides a realistic operational environment for training the Brigade Combat Team (BCT) and below in preparation for deployment to conduct Unified Land Operations (ULO). It is comprised of voice, video, and data instrumentation subsystem networks that include software, hardware, work stations, base-station equipment, communications infrastructure, voice radios, data devices, and interfaces. The Instrumentation System provides the Combat Trainer (CT) critical situational awareness for training safety, analysis, and feedback capabilities to conduct After Action Reviews (AARs). Training Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) Stimulation Suite (TASS) is a live training system that utilizes Aircraft Survivability Equipment B-Kit Emulator (ABE) software application to support the need for units to replicate the Operational Environment (OE) at Maneuver Combat Training Center (MCTC) requirement. TASS supports U.S. Army helicopters during force-on-force exercises in the live training environment of the maneuver Combat Training Center (CTC). TASS consist of airborne and ground transceivers that exchange position and engagement data between the Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) simulation, Ground Threat Emitters (GTE), and the CTC Instrumentation System (IS). Aircrafts use tracking and engagement data collected by the CTC- IS and is displayed as training performance feedback in an AAR. Threat Integrated Air Defense System (TIADS) will provide for an enhanced OE to support evolving and realistic training requirement at MCTCs. The TIADS consists of five components; the Training Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) Stimulation Suite (TASS), Ground Threat Emitter (GTE), Visual Modification (VISMOD), Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) and the Radar Signal Emulator (RSE) which replicates an enemy multi-layered, short range, medium and high altitude air-defense system to execute unified land operations against the current or projected threat. The TIADS creates the ways and means needed to challenge rotational training units with an opposing force air defense threat. TIADS moves to NA0110000 in FY 2024. The Opposing Forces (OPFOR) Surrogate Wheeled Vehicles (OSWV) program procures tactical and technical wheeled vehicles, unique VISMODs, and Civilian on the Battlefield Vehicles (COBVs). This capability provides for a more realistic replication of OPFOR and Civilians on the Battlefield (COB) vehicle environment that rotational units must train against. Independent Commercially Compatible Cellular Network System (IC3NS) provides a closed loop, commercially available cell phone communications infrastructure at the CTCs that portrays the OPFOR cellular telephone phone network portion of the Operating Environment to allow BCTs to train on exploit/defeat the network tasks. The Opposing Forces Mechanized Vehicle Replacement (OMVR) will consist of a common Army tracked platform that uses sectional visual modifications (VISMODs) to represent and replicate five of six Opposing Force warfighting vehicles and combat functions. OMVR will provide peer-threat representative tracked/mechanized vehicles and formations to the Rotational Training Unit (RTU) across the depth and breadth of the training area and provide the opposing force (OPFOR) units with a sustainable system that is safe for soldiers to install, operate, and maintain. The Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Swarm Training Capability addresses capability gaps in the Army's ability to prepare Soldiers to survive in an operational environment (OE) with a congested, contested, and dynamic air domain that is created by adversary/enemy use of Groups 1 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capabilities. Currently, the opposing forces, at the Combat Training Centers and home station training locations, are only able to perform solo unmanned aircraft vehicle flights during live training exercises. This is not adequate for developing and exercising the counter-small unmanned aircraft system tactics, techniques, and procedures Soldiers in Army Brigade Combat Teams need to defend against and defeat Groups 1 UAS capabilities potential threats are likely to use in current and future OEs through the use of multiple and dynamic threats in the close, deep and rear areas via kinetic attack emulation, electromagnetic attack, electromagnetic support and ISR persistent surveillance that creates a transparent battlefield. The Opposing Forces (OPFOR) Attack Aircraft Shoot-back Capability (OA2SBC) program procures and installs instrumentation capabilities on the Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) and for the Instrumentation System (IS) to track newly fielded Light Utility Helicopters (LUH) performing Observer/Controller (OC) and OPFOR roles at the three CTCs. The CTC Aviation program provides the capabilities to communicate with LUH organic onboard radios via the CTC ground-based Observer Controller Communications Systems (OCCS). The OPFOR capability provides a high-fidelity threat to the Blue Forces (BLUFOR) in training at the CTCs and the OC capability provides and aids the control of the CTC exercises to ultimately achieve the objective of improved and sustained readiness of the force.

Justification

Justification — Combat Training Centers Support

FY 2026 Base procurement dollars in the amount of $49.025 million supports the following efforts: FY 2026 Combat Training Center Instrumentation System (CTC-IS) Base procurement dollars in the amount of $34.914 million procures essential lifecycle activities on the existing subsystems of the fielded Instrumentation Systems located at the National Training Center (NTC), Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), and the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC). These essential lifecycle activities consist of Information Technology (IT) Hardware Replacement, Continuous Technology Refresh (CTR), and Post Deployment Software Support (PDSS) to ensure that the Instrumentation System subsystems do not become obsolete and maintain the authority to operate. This ensures there is a continuing evolution of system capability over the lifecycle of the Instrumentation Systems at the three Combat Training Centers. Additionally, base funding will enable the ability to deploy, operate, and secure CTC IS 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. FY 2026 Base procurement dollars in the amount of $9.164 million for CTC IS OPA Military Construction (MILCON) tails is required to procure the instrumentation system being installed as part of the Joint Readiness Training Center Joint Operations Center (JRTC JOC). FY 2026 Opposing Forces (OPFOR) Surrogate Wheeled Vehicles (OSWV) program base procurement dollars in the amount of $1.737 million will fund the replenishment of unserviceable or damaged beyond repair of Civilian on the Battlefield Vehicles (COBV) & Technical Vehicles at each of the CTC locations. FY 2026 Independent Commercially Compatible Cellular Network system (IC3NS) procurement dollars in the amount of $2.613 million will be utilized to finalize configuration and install/field a cellular capability at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC). Currently no cellular capability exists. This will enable the Rotational Training Unit (RTU) more freedom of mobility when conducting Information Operations on the replicated internet. Additionally, this will allow expanded cyber, Electronic Warfare (EW), and Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) operations providing operationally realistic network representative of our near peer adversaries. Finally, the team will continue to support network operations and employ white card EW, cyber, and SIGINT effects on the RTU at the other CTCs. FY 2026 Base procurement dollars in the amount of $0.597 million for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Swarm procures the necessary hardware to build out an available fleet of ready to fly UAS Swarm aircraft to maintain product availability and keep pace with the utilization rates of the systems at the Combat Training Centers. These dollars will also be utilized to procure the necessary training products in preparation to conduct the Threat UAS Swarm Operators course at the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center. 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

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Other Procurement, ArmyAFY24 Actuals$61.1M
Other Procurement, ArmyAFY25 Enacted$38.7M
Other Procurement, ArmyAFY26 Disc. Request$49.0M
Other Procurement, ArmyAFY26 Total$49.0M

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.

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ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$2.18B$61.1M$38.7M$49.0M$49.0M

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 Combat Training Centers Support. 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

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.