RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Army Test and Evaluation Command

FY2027 Request
$53.1M
▲ 1.6% vs FY2026
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Project M65 — Army Test and Evaluation Command requests $53.1M in FY2027, 98% of the $54.3M requested for program element 0605898A, up 1.6% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

MarketTest & Evaluation / Industrial Base

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FY2027 Request
$53.1M
▲ 1.6% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$52.3M
▼ 10% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$58.2M
Prior year
Project detail

What project M65 buys

This project provides funding for the salaries and related personnel benefits for the authorized civilian personnel positions that provide for the management functions and the technical direction of the United States (U.S.) Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) Headquarters mission located at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Maryland. ATEC plans, conducts and integrates developmental testing, independent operational testing, independent evaluations, and assessments to provide essential information to Soldiers and acquisition decision makers supporting the American Warfighter. Additionally, ATEC provides Direct Support to the Army Futures Command (AFC). ATEC provides testing and independent evaluation support to AFC Cross Functional Team (CFT) efforts including risk reduction support to experiments, demonstrations, requirements, research, development, and acquisition. As such, ATEC priorities are aligned to the Army's Transformation priorities. This project resources the workforce to execute the following functions: human resources, safety, security, environmental, strategic planning, operations, engineering and logistics, resource management, test capabilities management, policy and standardization, public affairs, legal, Inspector General, Equal Opportunity, and information/ technology support for command-wide databases in support of the developmental, evaluation and operational test mission with technical direction to the Army Evaluation Center (AEC), APG, Maryland; to the Operational Test Command (OTC), Fort Cavazos, Texas which consists of three forward Test Directorates (Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate, Fort Liberty, North Carolina; Air Defense Artillery Test Directorate, Fort Bliss, Texas; and the Fires Test Directorate, Fort Sill, Oklahoma) together with four other Test Directorates (Aviation; Maneuver; Mission Command; Maneuver Support and Sustainment) at Ft Cavazos, Texas; and to the seven Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFBs) and one non-MRTFB test range: Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) at APG, Maryland; West Desert Test Center (WDTC) at Dugway Proving Ground (DPG), Utah; Electronic Proving Ground (EPG) at Fort Huachuca, Arizona; White Sands Test Center (WSTC) at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), New Mexico; Yuma Test Center (YTC) at Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), Arizona; Arctic Regions Test Center (ARTC) at Fort Greely, Alaska; and…

Funding trajectory

Project M65 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.

2550058.2FY25ACTUAL52.3FY26ENACTED53.1FY27REQUEST53.9FY2854.3FY2954.1FY3054.6FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual58.2
FY2026Enacted52.3
FY2027Request53.1
FY2028Outyear53.9
FY2029Outyear54.3
FY2030Outyear54.1
FY2031Outyear54.6
Inside the project

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.

ATEC▲ 2%
FY2025 actual$58.2M
FY2026 enacted$52.3M
FY2027 request$53.1M

Will continue to fund authorized civilian salaries, associated operating expenses (supplies, equipment, travel, software licensing, etc.) and other support required to manage and administer the Army test and evaluation mission at ATEC. Contractual requirements include: on-site Information Technology (IT) Help Desk that provides computer…

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