Facilities Sustainment - Test and Evaluation Support

This program element included all necessary expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605807F. Sustainment is defined as the maintenance and repair activities necessary to keep facilities in good working order and includes regularly scheduled adjustments and inspections, preventative maintenance tasks, and emergency response and service calls for minor repairs. It also includes major repairs or replacement of facility components (usually accomplished by contract) that are expected to occur periodically throughout the lifecycle of facilities. This work includes regular roof replacement, refinishing of wall and floor surfaces, repairing and replacing of heating and cooling systems, repairing tile, carpeting, and similar types of work. This work also includes inspection and repair of heavy plant machinery, high-power electrical switching gear, hydraulic, lubrication, forced-air and fluid cooling systems, high pressure vessel health monitoring, facility control and remote monitoring systems, liquid oxygen systems, steam systems, test instrumentation, and fire detection and suppression systems. Environmental compliance costs, facility leases, or other tasks associated with facilities operations (such as custodial services grounds services, waste disposal, and the provision of central utilities) are not included. Sustainment funds support the following Air Force organizations and their associated test and evaluation facilities: the 96th Test Wing (TW) at Eglin AFB, FL; the 412TW at Edwards AFB, CA; Arnold Engineering and Development Complex (AEDC), to include assets at Arnold AFB, TN, the 704th Test Group (704TG) at Holloman AFB, NM, the 704TG Landing Gear Test Facility (LGTF) at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, the Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 9 at White Oak, MD, and the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) at Moffett Field, CA.