What project RR buys
The CWMD Test and Evaluation project provides a unique national test capability for simulated WMD facilities and processes. This capability provides DTRA's structured and systematic end-to-end test event planning, preparation, management, execution, and data analysis. It also offers test instrumentation (data acquisition systems and optics), scientific analysis and predictions, test article construction, test article/test bed remediation, tunnel mining, architectural and engineering design, systems engineering and integration, and test data management. The project leverages 50 years of expertise in investigating weapons effects and target response across the spectrum of hostile environments that could be created by proliferate nations or terrorist organizations with access to advanced conventional weapons or WMD. Subject matter experts design full and sub-scale testing strategies focusing on weapon-target interaction with fixed soft and hardened facilities to include above ground facilities, cut-and-cover facilities, and deep underground tunnels.
Project RR funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 15.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 18.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 18.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 19.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 19.5 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Provide maintenance, remediation, and test support on DTRA test beds, ensuring DTRA facilities, test articles, and capabilities, including secure communications, are maintained and available to support test and assessment activities in support of DoW, Intelligence Community, and other government CWMD R&D activities on DTRA test beds…
Read the FY2027 plan →