What project 0653 buys
Project provides continuing maintenance and operational support for the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Weapons Division Test and Evaluation capabilities. These capabilities include the Pacific Ranges and Facilities, consisting of China Lake Ranges, Ordnance T&E facilities and the Point Mugu Sea Range, aerial and surface target launch and recovery, target test instrumentation and Test and Evaluation aircraft. The Pacific Ranges use China Lake's 1.1 million acres of land and 17,000 square miles of military restricted (R-2508) airspace together with Point Mugu's 125,000 square miles of instrumented sea range and 36,000 square miles of controlled overlying airspace, and airfield and test instrumentation at San Nicolas Island to perform its Test and Evaluation mission. Included in the China Lake ranges is the Electronic Combat Range, which provides outdoor free space developmental and operational testing of airborne electronic warfare systems and tactics against shipboard and land based air defense systems. These ranges perform metric radar, multilateration and optical tracking of test objects; command, control, and destruct for range safety purposes; communications; frequency interference control and analysis; collection processing and display of telemetered data; real-time data processing and display; and the operation of a sub scale aerial target launch capability. Other test capabilities include sled tracks, measurement facilities; propulsion, warhead, environmental, rocket motor, and other missile component test facilities; and gun ranges. This project funds costs that are not chargeable to customers.
Project 0653 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 | 159.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 163.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 155.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 171.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 176.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 178.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 182.2 |
5 accomplishments / planned programs
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. 4 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Continue to maintain and operate mission essential/core test support resources. These resources include test article instrumentation as well as ground and flight test instrumentation systems, range instrumentation systems and data processing and communication systems required to meet customer test workload. Fund civilian labor, travel…
Read the FY2027 plan →Continue to reimburse the Command for General and Administration Support services. Continue to fund civilian labor, travel, transportation, equipment, supplies, communication, equipment maintenance, purchased service contracts, annual utilities, Navy Marine Corps Intranet, and any costs necessary to manage and sustain Major Range and…
Read the FY2027 plan →Continue to maintain and operate mission essential/core test support aircraft associated with aviation platform and weapon system test and evaluation. Fund civilian labor, travel, transportation, equipment, supplies, communication, equipment maintenance, purchased service contracts, annual utilities and any costs necessary to manage and…
Read the FY2027 plan →Continue to maintain and operate mission essential/core test support resources associated with airborne and seaborne target operations required to meet customer test workload. Fund civilian labor, travel, transportation, equipment, supplies, communication, equipment maintenance, purchased service contracts, annual utilities and any costs…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Continue to maintain and operate mission essential/core test support resources associated propulsion, warhead, environmental, rocket motor, and other missile component test facilities required to meet customer test workload. Fund civilian labor, travel, transportation, equipment, supplies, communication, equipment maintenance, purchased service contracts, annual utilities and any costs necessary to manage and sustain Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB) ordnance test and evaluation operations.
FY2026 to FY2027 change No significant change.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue to maintain and operate mission essential/core test support resources associated propulsion, warhead, environmental, rocket motor, and other missile component test facilities required to meet customer test workload. Fund civilian labor, travel, transportation, equipment, supplies, communication, equipment maintenance, purchased service contracts, annual utilities and any costs necessary to manage and sustain Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB) ordnance test and evaluation operations.