# Project RR — CWMD TEST AND EVALUATION

**Program element:** 0603160BR — Counter Weapons OF MASS Destruction Advanced Technology Development  
**Project:** RR  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603160BR/RR  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603160BR

## Summary

Project RR — CWMD TEST AND EVALUATION requests $20.7M in FY2027, 4.1% of the $509.2M requested for program element 0603160BR, up 78% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

**Markets:** Test & Evaluation / Industrial Base — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603160BR; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RR: CWMD Test and Evaluation | 11.3 | 11.7 | 20.7 | +78% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603160BR/RR/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### RR: CWMD Test and Evaluation

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603160BR/RR/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603160BR.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603160BR project RR (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603160BR")`.

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