What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project RR of PE 0603160BR. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
- 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 Kirtland AFB, White Sands Missile Range, and Nevada National Security Site. - Provide overhaul of the Linear Test Track (a unique nuclear detector test and evaluation capability on Kirtland AFB). - Expand the Technical Examination and Assessment Monitoring Site on Kirtland AFB to support U.S. Government CWMD training requirements. - Develop new test and evaluation capabilities to support future toxin and pharmaceutical-based agent test and evaluation needs. - Conduct approximately 30 independent operational assessments of new/novel equipment and capabilities for the Joint Force, Department of War, and other U.S. Government entities working in the CWMD mission space. - Replenished bench stock of long-lead specialized items used to instrument various ranges and test beds; replaced 20% of instrumentation and data acquisition equipment in accordance with 5-year plan. RDT&E efforts to defeat Hardened and Deeply Buried Target (HDBT) may include: - Conduct research for geologically similar terrain for development of threat-representative sites to serve as HDBT defeat capability testbeds for future HDBT test and evaluation activities; conduct geologic analysis on the efficacy of the potential sites to support future operational needs. - Develop new plans and tactics, techniques, and procedures for new and/or increased HDBT specific weapons testing. - Plan for increased test bed and testing site remediation in accordance with local, state, and federal range and environmental regulations. - Develop and/or acquire new data acquisition system(s) necessary to ensure state of the art data collection and dissemination. - Develop and/or acquire required instrumentation and cabling (which are consumed in destructive testing) for new and/or increased HDBT weapons system testing. - Research and plan for additional range safety requirements and fees in accordance with local, state, and federal range and environmental regulations.
The change from FY 2026 to FY 2027 aligns priority spending with the Secretary of War’s highest priorities to strengthen readiness, modernize capabilities, and sustain the force. Reflecting the designation of DTRA as the Hardened and Deeply Buried Target -Defeat (HDBT-D) Enterprise Mission Lead, the Fiscal Year 2027 budget allocates increased funding for HDBT-D efforts.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Sustain a capability to manage two Petabytes of historic test data and 200 Terabytes per year of future data in compliance with DoW Scientific and Technical Information Program. Ensures data is accessible and available for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning tool development. - Provide diagnostics support for 40 CWMD test and evaluation activities at White Sands Missile Range, Nevada National Security Site, Kirtland Air Force Base, and other remote locations. - Enable the expansion and modernization of critical test range infrastructure. - Modernize diagnostic test and evaluation capabilities. - Fully operationalize high speed video camera capability to enable activities at two locations simultaneously. - Replenish bench stock of long-lead specialized items. - Sustain the diagnostic resources to support test and evaluation fielding, execution, and recovery for four mid-scale tests simultaneously. - Conduct research and development to develop new CWMD test and evaluation diagnostic capabilities to support the DTRA mission set. - Fully operationalize autonomous impulse momentum gage for measurements of blast with debris capability. - Fully operationalize fluorescence detector for measuring simulated chemical agents capability. - Develop, refine, and upgrade modeling and simulation tools (M&S) used by DTRA Reachback (M&S tools include the Integrated Munitions Effects Assessment and Blast Overpressure, Gemini, Thermal Airblast, LS-DYNA, Second-Order Hydrodynamic Automatic Mesh Refinement Code, Virtual Reality Equipment, Ansys Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamics model). - Conduct up to 28 independent operational assessments of new/novel kit/capabilities for U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Central Command, Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command and others; support fielding determinations for new capabilities that address urgent needs and the development of new/novel CWMD technology to strengthen joint force ability to defeat adversary threats.
- Finalize Data and Management Handling capability to manage two PetaBytes of historic test data and 200 TeraBytes per year of future data archived and accessible in compliance with DoD Scientific and Technical Information Program. - Develop new data analysis and visualization tools. Expand access to various networks. - Instrument test ranges and conduct 100 individual test events in support of RDT&E programs. - Replace 20% of instrumentation and data acquisition equipment in accordance with 5-year life cycle management plan. - Develop and replace obsolete and end of life data acquisition systems to ensure state-of-the-art testing capability for DTRA. - Enhance optics capabilities to enable testing at multiple locations simultaneously. - Provide test range support and DTRA facility support at Nevada National Security Site to enable end-to-end testing for four national-level CWMD tests (customers are expected to include 14 DoD and other USG Agencies). - Perform repairs and remediation of 1,000 feet of the DTRA-owned, deeply-buried underground tunnel test complex at Capitol Peak on White Sands Missile Range. - Develop, refine, and upgrade existing modeling and simulation tools, most notably the Tunnel Air Blast model that incorporates the effects of debris on the resulting air blast in the tunnel, leading to a greatly improved capability to forecast air blast pressures resulting from in-tunnel detonations. - Integrate the results of the geotechnical characterization, the Z-model for penetration prediction, and geostatistical analysis into a fast-running tool that will provide accurate penetration predictions for selecting aim points and scoping penetration tests at the New Granite site. Includes 3D Rockworks model for visualization of site geologic variability. - Conduct 30 classified, independent operational assessments of new/novel kit/capabilities for Combatant Commands. - Produce 35 letters of observation and final reports. - Provide technical, instrumentation, and communications end-items and bench stock required to ensure the test division remains full mission capability, relevant to emerging test requirements, and updates items in accordance with service life plan. - Purchase various radio-frequency equipment to update stock of cabling, omni-directional antennas, and measurement systems. - Purchase various monitoring and analysis tools to support susceptibility, new tool, and network effects assessments. - Purchase Electronic Warfare/Electronic Surveillance and general radio-frequency collection, analysis, testing and measurements training for relevant capabilities to expand into the growing testing and evaluation support realm as services acquire more capabilities to execute in the mission space.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 11.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.7 |
This activity is 100% of project RR's FY2027 request and 4.1% of PE 0603160BR's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
1 activity in project RR
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.