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Combat Training Centers Support
Budget Figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →
- FY24
- $61.1M
- FY26
- $49.0M
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 reports $61.1M actually spent — $4.50M above the request.
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)
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $61.1M |
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $38.7M |
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $49.0M |
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY26 Total | $49.0M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $2.18B | $61.1M | $38.7M | $49.0M | $49.0M |
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Awards
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Lobbying Mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →