Public Release Command Brief Slides 24FEB25.pdf

U.S. ARMY DUGWAY PROVING GROUND

Command Brief 24 February 2025

Agenda

• Dugway Proving Ground Overview

• West Desert Test Center Capabilities

• Chemical & Emerging Threat Agent Test Complex

• Bio Test Complex

• Simulant Challenge Test Complex

• Outdoor Range Test Grid Complex

• Data Sciences, M&S, Distributed Test Complex

• Meteorological Test Support Complex

• Current Initiatives

Mission

U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground executes efficient testing and support to enable our nation's defenders to counter chemical, biological, radiological, and explosives (CBRE) hazards.

Major Range and Test Facility Base

(MRTFB)

Dugway Proving Ground’s West Desert Test Center (DPG-WDTC) is designated a Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB) Activity, and regarded as a national asset, operated and maintained primarily for DoD test and evaluation missions.

“The DA MRTFB is an aggregation of T&E activities…designed to provide support capabilities based on DOD component requirements without unnecessary duplication. DA MRTFB activities are available to all users with valid hardware testing and test support requirements.” -Army Reg. 70-69, 1-6, a

“Capabilities….shall not be unnecessarily duplicated.”

-DoDD 3200.11

Command Vision

Dugway Proving Ground Organization

Team Dugway – working together to execute the mission and care for people

DPG

Command

West Desert Test Center

Mission and Installation

Contracting Cmd

Defense Health Agency

Army/Air Force

Exchange Service

Biological Test

Division

Defense Commissary

Agency

InterContinental Hotels Group

Installation Management

Command

Logistics Readiness

Center

Network Enterprise

Center

Rapid Integration Acceptance

Center

Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic

Equipment

Utah National

Guard

Utah Test and Training

Range

• Public Works

• Family, Morale, Welfare, and

Recreation

• Operations

• Human Resources

• Plans and Analysis

• Resource Management

• Chaplain

• Equal Employment Opportunity

• Operations

• Chemical Test

• Special Programs

• Data Sciences Division

• Test Support Division

Civilian Personnel

Advisory Center

Command Staff

ORGANIC

SUPPORT

MISSION

INSTALLATION

• Resource Management

• Logistics

• Surety Security

Key

Workforce & Direct Economic Impact

Total Military/DA Civilians ATEC, IMCOM, Appropriated Funds, Non-appropriated Funds

DoD Tenants

MICC, MEDCOM, NEC, RIAC, UTTR, TMDE, BTB, CPAC, LRC

Other Tenants Army/AF Contractors, AAFES, IHG, USPS, Schools, CU

DPG Residents Spouses and Dependents only

Total Employees and Residents 2214 Transients/Customers Military/Civilian combined on any given test day

50-1500

DPG supports nearly 2,500 jobs and contributes $267M to Utah’s economy

Category Total Jobs 2,214 Earnings $139.1M Gross Domestic Product $232.9M

Source: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute analysis using the REMI PI+ model

BLUF: Test Tube to Battlefield Dugway Proving Ground is responsible for testing and evaluating nearly all Department of Defense (DoD) chemical and biological defense capabilities including protective gear, detectors, and decontamination systems. In addition, Dugway supports critical U.S. Army and DoD activities, including military training, smoke and obscurants testing, and the development, testing, and integration of unmanned aircraft systems.

CWMD

Support

Bio Testing & Evaluation

Chem Testing & Evaluation

CUI//PHYS7

Bragg

Location & Airspace

Total Airspace Footprint 16,797 miles2

Restricted Airspace 7,954 miles2

Military Operations Area 10,004 miles2

DOD Exclusive-use Land 3,078 miles2

Government-owned Land 16,686 miles2

Dugway is Remote

• Most Remote & Isolated installation in the Army (CONUS)

• Free from urban encroachment

• Acoustically and electronically quiet

• Free of light pollution

• Salt flats extending 90 miles north

• Surrounded on three sides by mountains and desert terrain

Dugway is

• 80 miles from Salt Lake International

Airport

• 50 miles from Tooele, closest major city

• Roughly the same size as Rhode

Island Salt Lake City

DPG is Partnered with the Utah Test & Training Range

Freedom to Test and Train

Total Area 1,252 miles2

Mountain Terrain 92 miles2

Mixed Desert Terrain 437 miles2

Playa (flats) 722 miles2

Remote and Isolated

• Located in Utah’s remote West Desert

• 40 miles from closest services

• Surrounded by rural, ranch land with free range cattle

Dugway Details:

• Contractors’ childcare rates have tripled

• Loss of services and facilities (bowling alley, rock, wood and auto shops, golf course)

• Annual 8-12% housing rent increase

• Few incentives to live at Dugway

• Families will move due to continued rent and service cost increases

• Cascading negative effects from reduction in services

• Average commute is 1-2 hours, one way

• Recruiting and retention

• Impacts to Service Members

Quality of Life Issues:

Workforce Impacts:

Supports mission execution – but at a higher price

USAG Dugway Proving Ground

• Directorate of Public Works

• Directorate of Operations

• Directorate of Human Resources

• Directorate of Resource Management

• Family, Morale, Welfare, and Recreation

• Plans,Analysis and Integration Office

• Equal Employment Opportunity

• Religious Support Services

• Information Management

• Safety

• Legal

Dugway Garrison

MISSION STATEMENT: USAG DPG provides effective base support services, enabling global mission readiness and a resilient community

Current Initiatives Test Capabilities Improvements

• Nontraditional (NTAs) and Pharmaceutical Based

Agents (PBAs)

• Wireless Test Grid/OADMS

• CVCAD & PCAD Test Requirements

• MINICAM Replacement (SAMARS)

• AIMEE

• WEP, LAB 103 Upgrade

• SPITFIRE Swatch Upgrade

• LVC/MS, AI/ML

Infrastructure Improvements

• DPG 2042 modernization planning ongoing

• Replacement/Refurbishment of aging facilities

• Additional 2 MW Solar Field

Test Events

• TECFT

• PCAD, CVCAD

• NBCRV-SSU

• UIPE-FOS

• SEDS

• TCMS

FY24 Test Activities

• NBCRV Sensor Suite Upgrade (SSU) – Chemical Surface Detector (CSD)

• Aerosol Vapor Chemical Agent Detectors (AVCAD)

• Proximate Chemical Agent Detector (PCAD)

• Compact Vapor Agent Detector (CVCAD)

• Uniform Integrated Protection Ensemble (UIPE)

• Desert Phantom/Tempest – Decontamination, Protection, Coatings Testing

• Technology Experimentation & Characterization (TECFT) Expeditionary Testing

• AF Vapor Off Gassing Re-use Test (VORT)

• Screening Obscuration Module (SOM) Smoke Testing

• COMET (Cryogenic Oxygen-Methane Explosion Test) (NASA)

• Launched Effects (LE) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) test support

• Broken Arrow (PM-Aircraft Survivability Equipment) Common Missile Warning Testing

Executed 134 Test Events in FY24

FY24 Training/TTP Development Highlights

• 83 Events, 121 Weeks of Execution, $7.3M

• Advanced Chem/Bio: 67 Events, 89 Weeks of Execution, $6.0M

• Land Warfare: 16 Events, 30 Weeks of Execution, $1.3M

• US Military

• SOCOM

• Navy EOD

• MARSOC EOD

• Army EOD

• Special Forces Units

• USAF Civil Eng Command

• CBRNE CMD

• DTRA TSG

• IC

• National Guard Civil Support Teams

• Utah National Guard

• Foreign Military

• Australian SOER

• UK Royal Engineers

• German KSK

• German Bundeswehr

Advanced Training for Specialized Units

TEAM DUGWAY –

Empowering the Nation’s Defenders

Follow Us and Share Our Vision

COL James P. Harwell Commander, Dugway Proving Ground 5450 Doolittle Ave Dugway Proving Ground, UT 84022

CSM Jessica Cho Installation Command Sergeant Major 5450 Doolittle Ave Dugway Proving Ground, UT 84022 instagram.com/USArmy_DPG twitter.com/USArmyDPG https://www.army.mil/dugway garrison https://www.facebook.com/ DugwayProvingGround youtube.com/c/DugwayProvingGround https://www.instagram.com/USArmy_DPG https://www.twitter.com/USArmyDPG https://www.dugway.army.mil/ https://www.facebook.com/USArmyDPG https://www.youtube.com/c/DugwayProvingGround

The Future

• Nontraditional (NTAs) and Pharmaceutical

Based Agents (PBAs) / Fentanyl

• Modeling & Simulation (M&S); Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) Testing

• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

• AIMEE (Robotic Agent Testing)

• SPITFIRE (near real time Swatch testing)

• Wireless Test Grid/OADMS

• WEP Laboratory

Test Capabilities Improvements

• MILCON Chemical Test Facility (CTF)

• DPG 2042 planning ongoing

• Additional 2 MW Solar Field

Infrastructure Improvements

Test and Training Events

• TECFT

• PCAD, CVCAD

• SEDS, TCMS

• UIPE-FOS

Discussion and Questions

Viable today and preparing for tomorrow