Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com and FDT/E requirements will be documented in the OTP. All repair parts for non-standard investment items and all non-standard consumables will be procured with the funds financing the conduct of the test. c. Costs of modifying test items and subsequent rehabilitation and return to stock, will be funded from the same source that funded the test. d. The MATDEV will forecast the need for ammunition for OT, FOT&E, and FDT/E and include it in the OTP. Requirements for all testing ammunition will be submitted to the Committee for Ammunition Logistics Support and the Worldwide Ammunition Reporting System.
(1) Procurement appropriations will provide consumable rounds of standard ammunition and tactical missiles required in support of DT or OT. This will be done without reimbursement when authorized by the weapons program. However, ammunition or missiles that are in development are funded by the RDTE appropriation. (2) Standard or non-standard pyrotechnics used for instrumentation support (such as, fire simulators and flash/bang) will be funded in the same way as instrumentation. (See para 11–1.) Ammunition or missile procurement funds will not be used to provide these types of devices. e. The MATDEV plans, programs, and budgets targets and threat simulators to support specific system testing.
Test a g e n c i e s , P M I T T S i n s t i t u t i o n a l f u n d i n g , o r f u n d i n g f r o m O S D w i l l p r o v i d e t h e f u n d i n g f o r g e n e r a l m i s s i o n requirements. 11–8. Funding to support acquisition of test agencies, activities, or proving grounds mission support equipment a. Test agencies/activities may acquire ITTS and facilities to provide general support test mission capabilities. These agencies/activities may use RDTE, APA, and/or OMA funds for this purpose. Test activities’ multi-application instrumentation will be developed with RDTE funds. Either the test agency itself or PM ITTS will provide these funds.
The agency may use APA funds to obtain separately procurable subsystems (for example, trucks) and modules (for example, NDI) that require no modifications before being integrated into an instrumentation system. Test agencies may use operating funds, either OMA or RDTE, to procure standard equipment, replacement components, and standard instrumentation in support of mission testing. They will normally use APA funds to procure standard and/or non- standard instrumentation that has been previously developed or is currently available from a commercial source, a foreign country, or another service.
Test activities will then use instrumentation, threat simulator, or mission funds (for example, RDTE) to install the appropriate instrumentation on the APA-procured item. The dollar restriction on the use of funds to procure instrumentation should be based on the Army’s expense/investment criteria. b. Mission equipment developed and acquired under this paragraph will not be type-classified or funded under the purview of AR 70–1 and AR 71–9 for weapon system development and issue. In addition, this equipment is not considered part of the test article system and its accompanying test support for weapon system acquisition. 11–9. Equipment procurement and accounting a.
Test activities’ RDTE and APA procured instrumentation is exempt from the procurement requirements of AR 750–43. Instrumentation calibration requirements will be according to AR 750–43. (See definition of test instrumenta- tion in the glossary.) b. This regulation authorizes property accountability (for example, property book), as described in AR 710–2, of RDTE and APA-funded test instrumentation. c. Audio and video equipment is considered instrumentation when procured by RDTE and APA funds to support testing. Therefore, they are excluded from the special procurement requirements for public information, schools, and Adjutant General use at installations. d.
Automated data processing equipment, funded through test activities’ RDTE or APA programs and classed as instrumentation, is exempt from AR 25–1. Rather, this classification of automatic data processing equipment falls under the auspices of scientific and engineering applications in support of materiel acquisition. e. Equipment modifications to non-standard (non-type-classified) equipment obtained to support testing are excluded from the materiel change, configuration management, and modification of materiel guidance contained in AR 750–10. The activity using the item is responsible for changes or modifications to non-standard items.
Modifications to standard (type-classified) equipment on activity tables of distribution and allowances, or borrowed, will be performed as prescribed in AR 750–10. f. After obtaining verification from the test site host, test activities may support testing through lease or procurement of commercial-type equipment, including vehicles, when internal capabilities are exceeded or when required military- type equipment or vehicles are not available through normal channels (for example, general officer TSARC alloca- tions). Leases may be by local contracting arrangements or through the General Services Administration.
Test activities may also obtain equipment or vehicles from property disposal offices to satisfy RDTE test mission support. (See AR 71–32.) 11–10. Army Test Resources Master Plan The Army Test Resources Master Plan (ATRMP) will be developed to include the vision, objectives, and investment 37 AR 73–1 • 1 August 2006