{"id":31779,"date":"2022-03-10T13:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T13:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/03\/10\/lawmakers-recommend-800-million-budget-increase-for-defense-lab-and-testing-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:17:28","slug":"lawmakers-recommend-800-million-budget-increase-for-defense-lab-and-testing-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2022\/03\/10\/lawmakers-recommend-800-million-budget-increase-for-defense-lab-and-testing-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers recommend $800 million budget increase for defense lab and testing infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 As the U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s laboratories and testing organizations grapple with a multibillion dollar infrastructure funding gap, lawmakers want to boost fiscal 2022 funding for the most critical projects by nearly $800 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funding \u2014 included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/03\/09\/budget-deal-would-fully-fund-defense-department-add-136-billion-in-ukraine-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\">fiscal 2022 compromise defense spending bill<\/a> released this week \u2014 targets key technology development and testing infrastructure like space, hypersonic weapons, directed energy, electromagnetic spectrum and targeting, adding $422.7 million across multiple defense-wide and Navy research and development projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill also proposes $375.4 million to make DoD\u2019s ranges more representative of a fifth-generation threat environment, funding projects at the Nevada Test and Training Range, Point Mugu Sea Range, China Lake and the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex. Along with the range improvement funding, lawmakers require a report from the Director for Operational Test and Evaluation as well as the Test Resource Management Center that outlines a spending plan and details any outyear funding needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is noted that recent investments in next-generation weapons such [as] hypersonics, directed energy and space technologies have not been accompanied by investments in the associated test infrastructure to demonstrate these capabilities under operationally relevant conditions against realistic threats,\u201d lawmakers said in a joint explanatory statement accompanying the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed funding increase is significantly lower than the $1.1 billion recommended by Senate appropriators in an earlier bill. But it comes as DoD and industry leaders raise concerns about the state of lab and testing facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The department\u2019s fiscal 2022 unfunded requirements list for lab military construction projects, obtained by Defense News, identifies 81 projects totaling approximately $3.29 billion. Of the 81 projects, 22 come from the Army, 29 from the Navy and 30 from the Air Force; 57 of the projects are deemed major and 24 minor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu pegged the total shortfall at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/battlefield-tech\/2022\/01\/24\/department-of-defense-labs-face-5-billion-infrastructure-shortfall\/\" target=\"_blank\">closer to $5 billion<\/a> during a Potomac Officers Club event in January. 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