What project RR buys
The Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Test and Evaluation project provides a unique national test capability for simulated Weapons of Mass Destruction (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 proliferative 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 | 11.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 24.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 22.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 22.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 22.7 |
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.
- Sustain two Petabytes of historic U.S. nuclear test data and 200 Terabytes per year of future test data in compliance with DoW Scientific and Technical Information Program; ensure data is accessible and available for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning tool development. - Remediate hazards at DTRA Test and Evaluation facilities on…
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