Project F30
$462.3MFY2027 request ▲ 20%Army Test Ranges & Facilities
FY2025 actual$426.8M
FY2026 enacted$386.6M
FY2027 request$462.3M
FY2027 Request
$469.7M
▲ 7.6% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$436.7M
▼ 11% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$490.2M
Prior year
Roll-up of 2 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $469.7M for Army Test Ranges and Facilities under RDT&E program element 0605601A, up 7.6% over FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 490.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 436.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 469.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 461.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 467.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 470.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 473.8 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 6 — RDT&E Management Support.
Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Complete
Prototyping
BA 4
Current
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
2 projects roll up into PE 0605601A
Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves 8% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project WD1
$7.5MFY2027 request ▼ 85%West Desert Test Center
FY2025 actual$63.4M
FY2026 enacted$50.1M
FY2027 request$7.5M
Congressional action
Congressional marks
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$469.7M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$479.7M +$10.0M · +2.1%
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$469.7M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$509.2M +$39.5M · +8.4%
▲ $39.5M chamber gap — unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Program detail
Mission & acquisition strategy
This Program Element (PE) provides the institutional funding required to operate developmental Test and Evaluation (T&E) activities in accordance with Public Law 107-314 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003) Section 232 ("Objective for institutional funding of test and evaluation facilities") in support of Department of War (DoW) Program Executive Officers, Program and Product Managers, Research, Development, and Engineering Centers and to the Army Futures Command (AFC).
Project F30, WD1 — Army Test Ranges & Facilities
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FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0605601A (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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/programs/0605601A.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$462.3M
▲ 20% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$386.6M
▼ 9.4% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$426.8M
Prior year
Army Test Ranges & Facilities — one RDT&E project inside PE 0605601A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project F30 — Army Test Ranges & Facilities — requests $462.3M in FY2027, 98% of the $469.7M requested for program element 0605601A. Year over year it grows 20% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project F30 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 426.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 386.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 462.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 454.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 459.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 462.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 466.1 |
Inside the project
14 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Mission Support▲ 19%
FY2025 actual$134.7M
FY2026 enacted$91.2M
FY2027 request$109.0M
Funds will support T&E capability sustainment, which includes life cycle replacement, maintenance of equipment, test facility maintenance, calibration requirements, handling and disposal of hazardous materials, transportation, postage, administrative supplies, tools, software, spare parts, test support vehicle maintenance, mission unique…
Read the FY2027 plan →T&E Civilian Pay▲ 22%
FY2025 actual$177.7M
FY2026 enacted$181.6M
FY2027 request$221.7M
Funds will continue to support the overhead costs of the civilian labor for PBG authorizations. The balance will be customer funded. The test customer will pay all direct costs directly attributable to the use of a test facility or resource for testing of a particular program. Funding will be essential to maintain core T&E skills as part…
Read the FY2027 plan →Contractor Support▲ 62%
FY2025 actual$51.5M
FY2026 enacted$43.9M
FY2027 request$71.0M
Funds will support contractor labor costs not billable to the customer. Functions performed will include range operations, automotive test support, radar maintenance, warehousing support, project management, maintenance of support fleet aircraft, recurring/ general maintenance to test facilities and data acquisition support.
Read the FY2027 plan →Revitalization/Upgradeflat
FY2025 actual$5.0M
FY2026 enacted$5.0M
FY2027 request$5.0M
Funds will continue to support the revitalization/upgrade of critical test infrastructure and capabilities. MRTFB elements will be required to use institutional funding to sustain or upgrade capabilities that support multiple customers. Funding will be focused on improving T&E capabilities for the highest priority Army transformation…
FY2025 actual$12.4M
FY2026 enacted$12.2M
FY2027 request$13.3M
Funds will support physical security guard operations, mandatory training, qualifications and for maintenance and sustainment of weapons, GSA leased vehicles, communications, and ESS equipment at the FBR at WSTC located at WSMR and Chemical/Biological facilities at WDTC located at DPG. Funding supports Army priorities shift to…
Read the FY2027 plan →UH-60 Aircraft▲ 2%
FY2025 actual$10.0M
FY2026 enacted$11.4M
FY2027 request$11.6M
Funds will continue to support UH-60 helicopter maintenance, aircrew labor, mandatory training and aircraft flying hours.
Network Enterprise Center (NEC)▲ 6%
FY2025 actual$14.5M
FY2026 enacted$15.1M
FY2027 request$16.0M
Funds support all labor, support equipment, and training required for the NEC operations at WSMR and YPG.
Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP)▲ 2%
FY2025 actual$1.8M
FY2026 enacted$1.8M
FY2027 request$1.8M
Funds will support cyber defense oversight and continuous monitoring of information security.
Military Construction (MILCON) Mission Unique Equipment (MUE)▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$9.1M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request—
Funds will be used to procure and install mission essential equipment to support newly constructed projects in the MILCON program. Funding is essential to ensure new facilities have full operational capability to meet their intended purpose.
MRTFB Organizational Logistics Activities▲ 2%
FY2025 actual$7.2M
FY2026 enacted$7.4M
FY2027 request$7.6M
Funds will support logistics activities providing support to WSTC located at WSMR, YTC located at YPG and WDTC located at DPG. These activities provide a wide range of logistics support services including but not limited to asset management/property book support; equipment maintenance/repair of ATEC owned maintenance significant items…
ARCYBER- C4IM Services Support to WSMR▼ 7%
FY2025 actual$0.1M
FY2026 enacted$0.1M
FY2027 request$0.1M
Funds the WSMR IT Support contract which provides Tier II contractor support for Information Technology (IT) Systems, Network Maintenance and Administration, Systems Administration, E-mail, Help Desk Assistance, VoIP/VoSIP O&M, and Network Engineering.
AFC / T2COM Physical Security Officer Civ Pay▲ 3%
FY2025 actual$0.2M
FY2026 enacted$0.2M
FY2027 request$0.2M
Will continue to provide DEVCOM CBC Physical Security Officer support to the BSAT Mission at BTD-CBC.
Four Dimensional Weather System (4DWX)▲ 2%
FY2025 actual$2.7M
FY2026 enacted$3.0M
FY2027 request$3.0M
Provides funding for sustainment and enhancement of the 4DWX system, an advanced meteorological support system that provides high-resolution weather forecasts and analyzes. The 4DWX analyzes and forecasts the 3-dimensional structure of the atmosphere over time (4th dimension) and is used in test planning, conduct, and forensic analyses…
ARCYBER - ArCTIC▼ 7%
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$2.1M
FY2027 request$2.0M
Funding supports continuous ARCYBER rapid cyber prototyping efforts on identifying and assessing novel non-program-of-record solutions for automated vulnerability and anomaly detection, network monitoring and visualization, and advanced modeling and predictive analytics.
Project detail
What project F30 buys
This project provides the institutional funding required to operate developmental test activities IAW Public Law 107-314 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003) Section 232 ("Objective for institutional funding of test and evaluation facilities") in support of DoW Program Executive Officers, Program and Product Managers, Research, Development, and Engineering Centers and to the AFC. Resources provided by this project operate seven elements of the DoW MRTFB: WSTC - WSMR, New Mexico; ATC - APG, Maryland; EPG -EPG, Arizona; YTC - YPG, Arizona; ARTC - Fort Greely, Alaska; TRTC at various locations; and beginning in FY27 West Desert Test Center (WDTC), DPG, Utah. This project also funds the Army's test capability at RTC - Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. This project finances the overhead (institutional) test operating costs not billable to DoW test customers per DoDI 3200.18 and DoWFMR 7000.14-R, which include: recurring test infrastructure/capability sustainment requirements; replacement of test equipment; test operating procedures; test revitalization/upgrade projects to maintain $8.6 billion of testing capabilities; and improvements to the safety, environmental protection, and efficiency of test operations. The test capabilities at these ranges have been uniquely established, are considered national assets, and are in place to support T&E requirements of funded acquisition programs across all Services, and are required to assure technical performance, adherence to safety requirements, reliability, logistics supportability, Title 10 Live Fire Test and Evaluation, transportability, environmental effects, cyber, electromagnetic effects, and quality of materiel in development and in production. This project provides for the recurring costs to include routine maintenance life cycle replacement of critical T&E capabilities required to support Army Transformation as well as other Army, Joint, or Other Service systems, materiel, and technologies.
FY2027 Request
$7.5M
▼ 85% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$50.1M
▼ 21% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$63.4M
Prior year
West Desert Test Center — one RDT&E project inside PE 0605601A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project WD1 — West Desert Test Center — requests $7.5M in FY2027, 1.6% of the $469.7M requested for program element 0605601A. Year over year it falls 85% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project WD1 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 63.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 50.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 7.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 7.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 7.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 7.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 7.7 |
Inside the project
4 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
BioTesting Division (BTD-CBC) - MRTFB▲ 1%
FY2025 actual$7.2M
FY2026 enacted$7.4M
FY2027 request$7.5M
Will provide for on-going operational readiness of existing T&E capabilities enabling the Army and DoW Chemical Biological Defense Program (CBDP) mission. Will provide for the institutional Government civilian labor overhead costs and maintain core T&E skills as part of the MRTFB Government civilian workforce. Will purchase contract…
WDTC, MRTFB Civilian Pay▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$28.3M
FY2026 enacted$23.7M
FY2027 request—
Funds will support overhead costs of civilian labor for PBG authorizations, and the balance will be customer funded. Test customers will continue to pay all costs directly attributable to the use of a test facility or resource for testing of a particular program. Funding will remain essential to maintain core T&E skills as part of the…
WDTC, MRTFB Mission Support▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$12.9M
FY2026 enacted$10.7M
FY2027 request—
Funds will provide sustainment of existing test instrumentation and equipment at WDTC in support of operations to maintain mission readiness of chemical laboratories, chemical/biological field and simulant chamber capabilities of test data and staff functions not chargeable to a test customer. Support annual service contracts for…
WDTC, MRTFB Contractor Support▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$10.1M
FY2026 enacted$8.3M
FY2027 request—
Funds will support contractor labor costs not billable to test customers. Contract labor is essential to augment core civilian T&E personnel with additional subject matter expertise, capabilities and/or capacity. Functions performed will include chemical and biological analysis, test field support, planning, and test report documentation…
Project detail
What project WD1 buys
This project provides funding for the West Desert Test Center (WDTC) and U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Chemical Biological Center (CBC) Bio-Testing Division (BTD-CBC) MRTFB institutional technical and operational capability for testing DoW Chemical and Biological (CB) and Non-Traditional Agent (NTA) defense materiel, equipment, and systems from concept through production to include associated special operations Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures Development (TTPD) activities. Efforts included in this project are: (1) BTD-CBC: Beginning in FY25, the BTD-CBC name changed to DEVCOM CBC Dugway. This effort sustains a critical Test and Evaluation (T&E) resource essential to fulfilling the 2021 Army Biological Defense Strategy's purpose: "to maintain the Army's capability and capacity to accomplish its mission and ensure readiness in the face of biological threats and hazards, in support of the Department of War (DoW) and the Nation." By preserving this T&E resource, the Army and DoW are better prepared to address the challenges of operating effectively in biologically contested environments, ensuring mission success and safeguarding national security. (2) WDTC: Beginning in FY27, the WDTC funding moved from the WD1 project code to the F30 project code. Together WDTC and DEVCOM CBC Dugway are the reliance centers for all DoW CB defense testing and provide the United States' only combined range, chamber, toxic chemical lab, and bio-safety level 3 Biological Select Agent and Toxin (BSAT) aerosol test capability. This project funds the institutional and overhead costs to operate WDTC and DEVCOM CBC Dugway in compliance with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY03 (Public Law 107-314), Section 232, "Objective for institutional funding of test and evaluation facilities." Those costs that are directly attributable to the use of WDTC and DEVCOM CBC Dugway for testing and TTPD activities under a particular program, over and above the institutional and overhead costs, are billed to the program.