SORT: 3200.11
DOCI: DODD 3200.11
DATE: 19800929
TITL: DODD 3200.11 Major Range and Test Facility Base, September 29, 1980,
USDR&E, thru Ch 3, November 1, 1985
Refs:(a) DoD Directive 3200.11, "Use, Management and Operation of
Department of Defense Major Ranges and Test Facilities June 18, 1974
(hereby canceled)
(b) DoD 5025.1-M," DoD Directives System Procedures," April 1981,
authorized by DoD Directive 5025.1, "Department of Defense Directives
System," October 16, 1980
(c) DoD Instruction 4410.3, "Policies and Procedures for the DoD Master
Urgency List (MUL)," April 4, 1978
(d) through (p), see enclosure 1
A. REISSUANCE AND PURPOSE
1. This Directive reissues reference (a) to reflect changes in scope and
to delineate policies and responsibilities for the management and
operation of specific Department of Defense test and evaluation (T&E)
activities (enclosure 2) (hereafter referred to as the Major Range and
Test Facility Base (MRTFB)).
2. This Directive authorizes publication of DoD 3200.11-D, "Major Range
and Test Facility Base, Summary of Capabilities," consistent with
reference (b)).
B. APPLICABILITY
The provisions of this Directive apply to the Office of the Secretary of
Defense, the Military Departments, the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and the Defense Agencies (hereafter referred to as "DoD
Components").
C. POLICY
1. The MRTFB is a national asset which shall be sized, operated, and
maintained primarily for DoD test and evaluation support missions, but
also be available to all users having a valid requirement for its
capabilities.
a. The MRTFB consists of a broad base of T&E activities managed and
operated under uniform guidelines to provide T&E support to DoD Components
responsible for developing or operating materiel and weapon systems.
b. Other U.S. Government agencies and allied foreign governments and,
when authorized, private organizations may be permitted to use the MRTFB.
2. Scheduling of test resources shall be based on a priority system that
gives equitable consideration to all DoD Components. Use of existing
Military Department priority and precedence rating systems is encouraged,
but such systems must accommodate DoD priorities (DoD Instruction 4410.3,
reference (c)), and not discriminate among DoD programs on the basis of
DoD Component sponsorship.
a. While priorities and precedence ratings are a primary condition, test
support schedules shall also recognize specific time restrictions (such as
launch windows and Defense Systems Acquisition Review Council schedule
milestones), and minimize delays to lower priority projects.
b. Scheduling conflicts that cannot be resolved at the activity or
Military Department level shall be referred to the Under Secretary of
Defense for Research and Engineering.
3. Major MRTFB test and evaluation support capabilities shall be based on
a combination of user requirements and the mission of the activity and
shall not be duplicated elsewhere within the Department of Defense. The
MRTFB shall be configured and operated to provide adequate support to DoD
Components without unnecessary internal duplication.
4. When a test requires the support of more than one MRTFB activity, a
lead MRTFB activity concept shall be used. The lead MRTFB activity usually
provides major support or originates the test.
a. The lead activity serves as the principal point of contact with the
user for planning, execution, and reimbursements, and coordinates with
other activities to obtain total support.
b. Scheduling and coordinating groups (such as the Southeastern Test and
Training Area Coordinating Agency, the Joint Pacific Area Scheduling
Office, and the R-2508 Restricted Area Complex Control Board) shall be
established when interactivity coordination and scheduling must routinely
occur.
5. The Major Range and Test Facility Committee (MRTFC) shall act as a
permanent organization to coordinate planning and actions with respect to
the MRTFB.
a. The committee is composed of a representative of each Military
Department, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower,
Reserve Affairs, and Logistics), and the Director, Defense Test and
Evaluation (DDTE), and will be chaired by the DDTE.
b. The MRTFC will meet at the call of the chair and have an advisory and
coordination responsibility to ensure present and future adequacy of the
MRTFB and to avoid unnecessary duplication.
D. RESPONSIBILITIES
1. The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering through the
Director Defense, Test and Evaluation, shall:
a. Establish policy for the MRTFB including composition, use, and test
program assignment.
b. Monitor and evaluate the MRTFB to ensure its adequacy to meet
requirements and to prevent unnecessary duplication.
c. Alter the composition of the MRTFB, if necessary, in coordination with
the cognizant Military Department.
d. Develop, in coordination with the Military Departments, and issue a
directory, "Major Range and Test Facility Base, Summary of Capabilities,"
DoD 3200.11-D.
2. The Secretaries of the Military Departments shall:
a. Manage and operate each MRTFB activity, as designated in enclosure 2.
b. Structure their activities to support specific kinds of DoD tests and
programs and, within available resources, any other user requirements
considered within the mission of the facilities.
c. Plan, program, and budget for institutional costs and implement a
reimbursement system to define and collect user charges as described in
section
d. Modernize test support capabilities, and replace or repair general
purpose instrumentation, equipment, and facilities.
e. Ensure early MRTFB participation in the T&E planning process of new
defense materiel and systems (DoD Directive 5000.3, reference (d)) to
maximize use of existing test support capabilities, avoid unnecessary new
acquisition, prevent duplication, and permit development of new
capabilities.
f. Assess the environmental consequences of proposed actions within the
United States (DoD Directive 6050.1, reference (e)), and outside the
United States (DoD Directive 6050.7, reference (f)), before the first
significant decision point.
g. Establish and maintain an intergovernmental coordination management
process to achieve full consultation of MRTFB land and facility plans and
projects (DoD Directive 4165.61, reference (g)).
3. Under the direction of the Secretary of the Military Department
concerned, the activity commander shall:
a. Develop and maintain a master plan for developing and operating the
MRTFB activity.
b. Develop and disseminate an activity users' guide which provides
capability summaries and procedures for introducing a test program.
c. Coordinate and cooperate with prospective users to assist in T&E
planning, including trade-off analyses and optimization of test scenarios
based on the test objectives and test support capabilities.
d. Support the planning, programming, and budgeting process by providing
estimates of operations, maintenance, and modernization requirements to
accomplish projected workloads and maintain the activity.
e. Manage the activity, administer the operating program, and obtain
reimbursements from users in accordance with section E.
f. Provide or arrange for test support and resources, including, as
appropriate, tracking and data acquisition, data reduction,
communications, meteorology, targets, utilities, photography, calibration,
security, recovery, maintenance and repair, frequency management and
control, and base support services relevant to the facility mission. This
includes other ranges when range support is required beyond the nominal
boundaries or capabilities of the lead activity.
g. Limit military use of offshore areas to that considered essential and
share the areas with nonmilitary interests (DoD Directive 3100.5,
reference (h)).
h. Comply with procedures for implementation of Strategic Arms Limitation
agreements and measures agreements (DoD Instruction 5-5100.72, reference
(i)). In addition, avoid the use of test firing azimuths for
intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic
missiles, and space boosters which could allow the trajectory, if
extended, to approach closely, overfly, or impact on the national
territory of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
i. Ensure safety is consistent with operational requirements, which
includes the prevention of test objects from violating established limits
through impact for vehicles with suborbital trajectories and through
orbital injection or escape velocity for space vehicles. When more than
one activity is involved in a test, the lead activity shall be responsible
for safety. For earth recovery or impact of orbiting space vehicles, the
safety responsibility rests with the activity controlling the recovery
portion of the flight. Specific responsibilities are:
(1) Determine policies and enforce safety procedures.
(2) Coordinate safety plans and procedures with other agencies within
potentially affected areas and issue notices within the United States and
to foreign governments regarding anticipated hazards from test activities.
(3) Coordinate on public affairs plans and assist in disseminating
appropriate information.
(4) Establish allowable ground and flight safety conditions and take
appropriate action to ensure that test articles do not violate the
conditions.
(5) Notify the National Military Command Center if an accident or errant
trajectory occurs that may have international implications.
(6) Ensure that facility users with payloads containing radio-active
materials have complied with the requirements of the National Aeronautics
and Space Council (NASC) Document (reference (j)).
4. The MRTFB Activity Users shall:
a. Provide timely and complete notification of support requirements,
using documentation formats prescribed by the activity. initial
requirements shall be certified to the activity commander by the system
manager concerned.
b. Plan, budget, and reimburse the MRTFB activities for support costs, as
specified by the activity, based on the criteria in section E.
c. Obtain prior concurrence from the activity before entering into any
contractual commitment containing activity use provisions.
d. Obtain prior approval from the activity for use of user-furnished
instrumentation and ground support equipment to ensure compatibility and
prevent duplication. Operate and maintain ground equipment and support
facilities assigned for their exclusive use.
e. Provide timely notification of test system performance
characteristics, such as planned flight trajectories, in accordance with
established activity requirements.
f. Document unique test support capabilities needed beyond those
presently available or planned by the activity in section E. of the T&E
Master Plan (DoD Directive 5000.3, reference (d)).
g. Ensure that tests comply with international treaties and other
agreements.
h. Coordinate system safety measures with the activity (DoD instruct ion
5000.36, reference (k)).
i. Certify to the activity commander that the nuclear safety procedures
for radioactive sources in space operations have been satisfied (NASC
Document, reference (i)); and make required reports to the Assistant to
the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy) in accordance with ATSD(AE)
memorandum (enclosure 3).
E. FINANCIAL
1. Funding. Funding of the MRTFB is designed to (a) assure the most
effective development and testing of materiel; and (b) provide for
interservice compatibility, efficiency, and equity without influencing
technical testing decisions or inhibiting legitimate and valid testing.
The activities listed in enclosure 2 shall be funded in a uniform manner.
All costs that are not reimbursed by users as defined in subsection E.3.,
shall be funded by the managing activity.
2. Accounting and Reimbursement. The Job Order Cost Accounting System and
the related definitions specified in DoD instruction 7220.24 (reference
(1)) are a minimum requirement to support financial management and funding
policies. The cost accounting system shall be used to determine charges
under interservice or interagency agreements pursuant to DoD Directive
4000.19 (reference (m)). Reimbursement for use of the MRTFB will be
consistently determined within the Department of Defense.
3. Reimbursements for Range Use
a. DoD Component users shall reimburse the activity for direct costs
which can be identified readily with the particular program support
excluding military labor costs. Direct costs include labor, material,
minor construction, utilities, equipment, supplies, and any other
resources damaged or consumed during testing or maintained for a
particular user. The cost of each direct labor hour shall be in accordance
with DoD 7220.9-H (reference (n)), and requires identification to a job or
function served.
b. All other federal agencies shall reimburse the activity for direct
costs, including military labor, plus indirect costs excluding military
retirement, depreciation, and the unfunded portion of civilian retirement.
Indirect costs include management and other costs which normally are not
identifiable to a particular program. The computation and application of
indirect costs shall be documented by each activity and be available to
the user.
c. All nonfederal agencies and commercial users shall reimburse the
activity for direct and indirect costs in accordance with DoD Instruction
7230.7 (reference (o)). However, when the use of an activity has been
included in a contractual agreement as Government-furnished services, the
user shall be charged, based on the category of the contracting Government
agency (paragraph 3.a. or b.). Foreign users shall reimburse the activity
in accordance with DoD 7290.3-M (reference (p)) for Foreign Military Sales
(FMS) cases or DoD Instruction 7230.7 (reference (o)), when no FMS cases
is involved.
d. The development and use of standard rates or fixed prices by
individual activities are encouraged. Such rates shall be based on
consistently applied costing practices for computing projected incurred
cost. The cost element increments identified above shall be included in
developing such rates and prices.
e. Users normally shall be billed for costs associated with aborts and
cancellations. The liability shall be equal to the direct costs incurred
on the user program aborted or canceled.
f. Application of this reimbursement policy to the Atlantic Fleet Weapons
Training Facility is effective FY 1983. Current reimbursement agreements
with non-DoD agencies as of the effective date of this Directive may
continue in effect until September 30, 1982, at which time they will be
made consistent with this Directive.
F. EFFECTIVE DATA AND IMPLEMENTATION
This Directive is effective immediately. Forward one copy of implementing
documents to the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
within 120 days.
W. Graham Claytor, Jr. Deputy Secretary of Defense
Enclosures - 3 1. References 2. Major Range and Test Facility Base 3.
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy) Memorandum, December
11, 1978
REFERENCES, continued
(d) DoD Directive 5000.3, "Test and Evaluation," December 26, 1979
(e) DoD Directive 6050.1, "Environmental Effects in the United States of
DoD Actions," July 30, 1979
(f) DoD Directive 6050.7, "Environmental Effects Abroad of Major
Department of Defense Actions," March 31, 1979
(g) DoD Directive 4165.61, "Intergovernmental Coordination of Department
of Defense Land and Facility Plans and Projects," December 16, 1976
(h) DoD Directive 3100.5, "Department of Defense Offshore Military
Activities Program," March 22, 1979
(i) DoD Instruction 5-5100.72, "Procedures for the Implementation of
Strategic Arms Limitation (SAL) Agreements and Measures Agreements (U),"
May 31, 1977
(j) National Aeronautics and Space Council Document, "Nuclear Safety
Review and Approval procedures for Minor Radioactive Sources in Space
Operations," June 16, 1970 NOTE: Copies available from OATSD(AE).
(k) DoD Instruction 5000.36, "System Safety Engineering and Management,"
December 6, 1978
(l) DoD Instruction 7220.24, "Accounting for Research and Development,"
September 18, 1969
(m) DoD Directive 4000.19, "Interservice, Interdepartmental, and
Interagency Support," October 14, 1980
(n) DoD 7220.9-H, "Accounting Guidance Handbook," February 1, 1978,
authorized by DoD Instruction 7220.9, July 12, 1971
(o) DoD Instruction 7230.7, "User Charges," January 29, 1985
(p) DoD 7290.3-M, "Foreign Military Sales Financial Management Manual,"
June 1981 (Reprinted December 1983 with change 1) and change 2, October
19, 1984
Major Range and Test Facility Base
Army Activities White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) Kwajalein Missile Range
(KMR) Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) Electronic
Proving Ground (EPG) Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG)
Navy Activities Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC) Naval Air Test Center
(NATC) Naval Weapons Center (NWC) (T&E portion only) Naval Air Propulsion
Center (NAPC) Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC)
Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility (AFWTF)
Air Force Activities Eastern Space and Missile Center (ESMC) Western Space
and Missile Center (WSMC) Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC)
Tactical Fighter Weapons Center (TFWC) (Range Group only) Air Force Flight
Test Center (AFFTC) (Includes Utah Test and Training Range) Armament
Division (AD) 4950th Test Wing
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON DEC. 20301
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY OF THE ARMY SECRETARY OF THE NAVY SECRETARY OF
THE AIR FORCE
SUBJECT: Reporting Requirements for Minor Radioactive Sources in Space
REFERENCES: (a) DoD Directive 3200.11, "Use, Management, and Operation of
Department of Defense Major Ranges and Test Facilities," June 18, 1974
(b) National Aeronautics and Space Council Document, "Nuclear Safety
Review and Approval Procedures for Minor Radioactive Sources in Space
Operations," June 16, 1970
Reference (a) establishes the requirement for DoD components to satisfy
the nuclear safety procedures. for minor radioactive sources in space as
prescribed in National Aeronautics and Space Council Document (reference
(b)). Required reports are to be made to the Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense (Atomic Energy) through the appropriate action office.
In the past, Category A sources were reported on an individual basis. A
quarterly forecast for Category B sources was submitted with no submission
for Category C sources. The stated requirement for Category A and 3
sources remains in effect. At the request of the Executive Office of the
President, Office of Science and Technology Policy, because of the
heightened sensitivity worldwide to nuclear power sources in space, it is
now required that intended launches containing Category C sources be
included with Category 3 launches in future quarterly forecasts. In
addition to the report on Category A launches, a consolidated quarterly
report on forecasted Category B and C launches will be provided to the
Office of Science and Technology Policy by this office. This report will
be for their information and is not intended to introduce a new approval
procedure.
As previously, a minimum of six weeks prior to launch should be allowed
for review of Category A reports. The quarterly forecast of Category B and
C launches should reach the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense (Atomic Energy) prior to the beginning of each quarter.
James P. Wade, Jr. Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy)
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