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White Sands Missile RangeCommand Brief

U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command

World Wide Conflicts And Related Testing

Requirements

World Wide Threats are divest and complex. They vary from low tech

IED to high tech hypersonic weapons. WSMR remains a critical, and

sometimes the only, test range that can support testing needs.

Future threats like hypersonic weapons and proposed defensive

systems such as lasers systems will increase WSMR importance

Nuclear

Environment

Testing

IED, Sensor,

NIE, AWA,

Testing

Air Defense,

Hypersonics,

Navy, USAF

Testing

MOP, DTRA,

TestingCounter Measures,

CYBER protection,

Low flying cruise,

system of systems,

missiles defense,

TestingUAV, Spec

Ops,

Testing

A National Treasure

White Sands has Full Authority of FAA

FAA Certified Control Center Manned

White Sands has Full Authority of FAA

FAA Certified Control Center Manned

White Sands has Full Authority of FAA

FAA Certified Control Center Manned

White Sands has Full Authority of FAA

FAA Certified Control Center Manned

“WSMR Shadow”

Western Call-Up Areas

Ft. Bliss

Northern Call-Up Area

White Sands Missile Range

• Land area

• Air space

• Frequency

Stable / Mild Climate

20yr Avg. Temperature.

Winter Summer

High 61oF 92oF

Low 36oF 69oF

Dry / Clear Atmosphere

Avg. RH- 42%, Avg. Rainfall 11.7”

Avg. Visibility 30 km

Team White Sands

Deputy forAir Force

Deputy forNavy

Garrison Commander

Garrison CSM

Directorate of

Public Works

Directorate ofHuman

Resources

Directorate of Emergency

Services

GarrisonResource

Management

Dir. of Plans, Training,

Mobilization and Security

ReligiousServices

EqualOpportunityEmployment

Directorate ofMorale, Welfare

& Recreation

Mission &InstallationContractingCommand

Desert Mountain

CPAC

Dental Clinic

McAfeeHealth Clinic

Test Measurementand Diagnostic

Equipment

AAFES

Commissary

Test CenterCommander

MaterielTest

Directorate

Range

OperationsDirectorate

Survivability,VulnerabilityDirectorate

Center forCounter

Measures

DefenseThreat

ReductionAgency

ArmyResearchLaboratory

NationalGeospatial-Intelligence

Agency

TRADOCAnalysisCenter

National Aeronauticsand Space

Administration

NationalReconnaissance

Office

PM CapabilityPackage

SOSI

NASATracking andData Relay

Satellite System

Commanding General

Executive

Director

Command

Sergeant

Major

SJA

Aide

ATEC

IG

Safety

Surety

EO

407th AFSBLRC

SGS

Chief of Staff

G2 G3 G5 G6G1/7/8 G9 G4

Test Network Information

Management Directorate

PAO PC

02 Feb 2015

Army

Patriot / PAC-3

Multiple Launch Rocket System

Air Defense Tests

Unmanned Aerial Systems

Joint Directed Energy Test Site

BNIE/AWA Test Events

Navy Systems Tested

6

**Team WSMR**

Gun Systems

AEGIS Spy Radar(software)

Fire Control Radar

Vertical Launching System

Tomahawk/StandardMissile

HarpoonWeaponSystem

Command & Decision System

Close InWeaponSystem/RAM

Navy surface systems tested at WSMR!

Small Diameter Bomb

(SDB) I & II

Major Air Force Test Programs at WSMR

Space Surveillance Telescope

Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile

(AMRAAM)

Massive Ordnance

Penetrator (MOP)

Joint Air-to-Surface

Standoff Missile (JASSM)

• F-22 / F-35 Weapons Integration

• Hard Target Void Sensing Fuze (HTVSF)

• Laser Weapons and Sensors

• Aeroacoustics and Radars

• GPS Jamming and Denial

WSMR is a key location for USAF weapon systems testing

Space Heritage

STS-3, March 30, 1982

Delta Clipper

July 7, 1996

STS-3 (Columbia)

March 30, 1982

NASA Crew Exploration

Vehicle

May 6, 2010

Terrier Black Brant –

U.S. Navy

On going.

Virgin Galactic

On going.

Darpa Space

Plane

On going.

Commercial

Space

On going.

Other Networks

Controlled Jamming Facilities

Acoustic Range

Complex

Truth/Testing Network

Temperature Test

Facilities

Nuclear Effect

Test Facilities

Condron AirstripElectromagnetic Test

Facilities

Shock and Vibration

Test Facilities

Other Environments (Rain, Fog, etc)

Test Facilities

Full Array of Targets

Large Optical Trackers

Jamming

Sensors and Sources

High Speed Sled

Track

Assemble Facilities

Caves

Bunkers

Buildings

Socorro

Stallion

Range Camp

High Altitude

LOS – Non LOS

Facilities

Joint

Communications

Aerial

Facility

Test Roads

Threat Presentation and Targets

10

Description

– An expansive array of targets are

available for both threat and target

presentation to systems under test

HERA Off-range Target

Tracked Target – M-60 Tank

Wheeled Target – Truck

Helicopter MANPADS target at

Aerial Cable Range

QF-4 Full-scale drone

Sub-scale drone launch

Multi-Level Structure

QF-16 Full-scale drone

Range Operations

Long range – high altitude electro-optics

High speed digital visible/IR

Telemetry –fixed and mobile

Laser, radio frequency & high power microwave

Radar & global positioning system

Reliable, Accurate, and Precise Measures of Performance…

Test/Training Support Network (TSN) Secure Wireless Network Initiative

JDEP

MDA

JNTC

NAVYARMY

AIR FORCE

NASA

Ft. Bliss Network

Edwards AFB

Fiber optic rings, 1500+ miles of fiber

Multiple nodes – data coms entry

Direct connect instrumentation, voice (radio),

video, telemetry, radar and tactical sensors or

systems and wireless transceivers

Mobile Information flow

Tactical systems and C4ISR data

Holloman

AFB

Joint connectivity for live, virtual & constructive

exercises

Data collection, storage, transport and real time

display

Information Management

Bold Quest

Air

WSMR System of Systems Testing

Large, reconfigurable range with abundant airspace and

available frequencies.

Total available airspace: 155 x 132 Miles. WSMR has the ability to

broadcast over the entire frequency spectrum including sensitive FAA

frequencies due to the remoteness and secured airspace.

Varying terrain with threat representative targets and

environments.

WSMR has the ability to jam GPS for testing purposes

Collaborative systems and networks at WSMR are

available for System of Systems use at low cost.

Many components are present and available at WSMR for System of

Systems testing events.

WSMR has a long history of Systems of Systems testing and is one of the few places large scale System

of Systems testing can be accomplished. WSMR provides a comprehensive array of test capabilities

enabling testing at a low cost. WSMR offers:

System of Systems Testing Support

Hypersonic Test Capability

System/Capability Submitted By Test Area

Accurate Radar Representation of Cruise Missile Single Service/Army Targets

High Speed Aerial Target (MQM-107 Replacement) Single Service Targets

High Diver Supersonic Target Joint/Navy Targets

Surrogate Missile System Joint/Navy Targets

Long Range Flight Test Capability Single Service/Navy Common Range

Instrumentation

2012 Strategic Plan for DoD T&E Resources, T&E Reliance Report Annex, May 2012

Army Research Laboratory

WSMR

• Workforce Over 230 employees

• Salaries Over $25M per year

• Annual Budget (Approx) $43M

UNCLASSIFIED

UNCLASSIFIED

Information & Electronic Protection

Division

Provide expert technical advice and

solutions that enable U.S. personnel

and equipment to survive and function

effectively in hostile circumstances.

• Electronic Warfare (EW) Support

• Radio Frequency Jamming Effects

• Computer Network Effects• Information Assurance/ Computer Network Defense

•Information Assurance/ Computer Network Def

Battlefield Environment

Division

Perform complex atmospheric science

research to support Army-scale operations

with actionable environmental intelligence.

• Atmospheric Characterization and Effects

• Atmospheric Properties and Their System Impact Models

• Battlefield Weather Forecasts• Localized Predictions and Weather Impacts Decision Tools

Mission:

• To provide the premier source of survivability, lethality, and

vulnerability expertise -- to provide experimentation, testing, and

analysis throughout a system's life cycle and develop the

techniques required to better understand, quantify, and enhance

its survivability and lethality.

• To perform research that solves complex Army-scale

atmospheric problems and results in joint weather intelligence

Army Research Lab

Key Capabilities at WSMR:

• Vulnerability/Survivability assessment

• Countermeasures testing

• IR and ECM support to testing of air defense missile systems

• Development of RF and IR counter-measure models for inclusion in

element/system models

• Development of next-generation mission execution forecast models,

web-enables decision aids and aviation weather route planners

Army Research Lab

• Part of ARL SLAD (Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate)

• Evaluation of Countermeasure Effectiveness

• Airborne or ground –based jamming pods, flare dispensers, chaff, etc.

• IEPD has over 300 EW devices for T&E of DOD weapons systems

• Electromagnetic Vulnerability Assessment Facility (EVAF)

• 100-ton turntable, fume-extraction, overhead hoists

• Two chambers: 110’ x 70’ x 40’, 30’ x 20’ x 20’

Army Research Lab

EW pods / devicesFlare dispenser testingTesting in the EVAF

Information and Electronic Protection Division

• Signature Measurement & Analysis

• Incorporation of field test data to authenticate models & simulations

• Low energy laser vulnerability analysis for O/EO devices

• Ensures Army O/EO system survival in battlefield threat environment

• Information Operations (IO) vulnerability/survivability

• Identifies inherent vulnerability to IO threats (EW,, computer attack, etc.)

• Identifies weaknesses that could compromise IO (data corruption, denial of service)

Army Research Lab

Signature measurement & analysisO/EO vulnerability evaluationIO system vulnerability assessment

Information and Electronic Protection Division

• Part of ARL CISD (Computational and Information Systems Directorate)

• Warfighter Decision Aides (web-enabled)

• Utilize met model gridded output to provide commanders a tactical advantage, by

providing expected impacts to system performance due to weather Allows for

informed adjustment to tactics prior to engagement

• Sub-1 km Atmospheric Models for 3D diagnostic picture of wind fields

• Provides near-real time update of avg wind flow around bldgs improves

deployment of smoke screens and accounting for wind impact on platforms/sensors

Army Research Lab

Wind Flow Experiments around Buildings at WSMR Warfighter Decision Aides

Battlefield Environment Division

Economic Impact of WSTF - Fiscal Year 2011

• Workforce - 63 NASA and 582 Contractor personnel

• Budget - ~$75M

• Mission Statement: Provide expertise and infrastructure to test and

evaluate spacecraft materials, components, and propulsion systems to

enable the safe exploration and use of space.

White Sands Test Facility

Workforce – 7 NASA

– 350 Contractor

Budget – ~$57M

White Sands Complex (Space Network)

Aerospace Data Facility - Southwest

Aerospace Data Facility - Southwest

ADF-SW is a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

multi-mission ground station supporting the

Intelligence Community and Department of Defense

NRO Mission

Innovative Overhead Intelligence Systems for National

Security

ADF-SW Mission

Support world-wide defense operations and multi-agency

collection, analysis, reporting and dissemination of

intelligence information

VIGILANCE FROM ABOVE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

730 USG & contractors on site supporting 24/7

operations

Tenant to WSMR for land use and power

Partnered w/NASA for utilities & force protection

support

Key Contributor to Southern New Mexico’s Tech Hub

Partnered w/NMSU for

student internships

and on-campus SCIF

spaces

Aerospace Data Facility - Southwest

Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Analysis Center (TRAC)

White Sands Missile Range

• Leads a ~$18 million program of analysis directed at the highest priorities of Army and Department of Defenses senior decision makers.

• Employs 107 Army civilians, 38 Army officers, and approximately 60 contracted work year equivalents.

Mission:

• Conduct studies that inform key decisions made by TRADOC,

Army, Joint leaders

• Lead the analysis for major Army experiments

• Develop and maintain scenarios to underpin Army concepts &

requirements

• Develop, configure, manage and apply verified & validated M&S

• Research, develop and share new analytical methods and

modeling

TRADOC Analysis Center

Key Capabilities at WSMR:

• Performance of FCS and Strategic Choices analysis for the Army

• Direct analytic support for the Future Forces Integration Directorate (FFID)

• Operational analyses for Army brigade-and-below sized units

• Development / maintenance for the Army’s single approved analytic

combined arms combat simulation

• Extension of test outcomes through the model-test-model paradigm

enables assessment across a wider set of conditions

TRADOC Analysis Center

Center for Countermeasures

Economic impact:

• Civil Service Employees – 73

• Contractor Employees – 8

• ~$16.1M of which $8.8M is salaries

• Managed over $50M of funding of multiple

development projects

Mr. Rogers, CCM

CCMRDT&E Capabilities & Assets

JMITS – (Joint Mobile IRCM Test System)

….is a mobile, self-contained, ground-based, open-

air missile simulator capable of replicating

MANPADS threat signatures in both the IR and UV

bands.

Seeker / Radiometric Van

….is a mobile system consisting of a 53-foot trailer

and a Kineto Tracking Mount (KTM). This system is

capable of using up to 8 IR seekers at one time,

depending upon seeker configurations, to test IRCM

system performance.

…coupled with this van is a radiometric suite of

imagers and spectrometers, collecting signature

information.

MANPADS Simulator

Center for Countermeasures

(CCM)RDT&E Capabilities & Assets

False Target Generator

….developed by CCM, the FTG is capable of

detracting some PGMs from the intended target.

L8A3 White Phosphorus Grenades

….used to provide IR coverage for a “valued” target.

Smoke Generator “Coyotes”

….used to provide CM coverage in visible and IR bands

Suite of

50+ laser

s..

Examples of Past Systems

Tested by CCM at WSMR

Countermeasures Systems

• HMMWV EWISSP (self-protection

vs. EO PGWs and anti-tank

munitions)

• CH-53 LAIRCM (test of aircraft

self protection systems

Sensors / Targeting Pods

• F-16 Litening AT Pod

(signature reduction)

• AH-1Z Target Sight System

(TSS)

Precision Guided Weapons

• F-16 Litening AT Pod (signature

reduction)

• F-18 JSOW-A

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UNCLASSIFIED

DTRA Mission – CWMD

35

NM Workforce

Military 102

Civilian 139

Payroll: ~$21M (Civilian FTEs only)

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UNCLASSIFIED

• Focus Areas

• Tunnel tests

• Large-scale explosives

• Thermobaric ACTD

• Aerial deliveries

• Test Beds

• Capitol Peak Tunnel Site

• High Explosives (PHETS) test beds

• SHIST Sites and Alternate SHIST Sites

• Large Blast Thermal Simulator

DTRARDT&E Capabilities and Assets

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UNCLASSIFIED

Capitol Peak Tunnel Complex

Biological Facility

Demonstration StructuresJASSM Hard Target Structure

Counter Terrorism

Test Structure

JDAM Hard Target

Structure

Tomahawk

Air Force Structure 3

NATO Structure

DTRATarget and Structure Assets