Overview
- The Army added Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center and Muscatatuck Training Center to its Permissive Test Range Expansion Initiative on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, allowing private companies to request use of the sites.
- Camp Atterbury offers more than 34,000 acres of secure ground space and restricted airspace up to 40,000 feet for high-altitude and live-fire testing.
- Muscatatuck provides a configurable roughly 1,000-acre urban training environment built to evaluate drones and counter-drone systems against realistic buildings and street layouts.
- Companies can request access through the Army test range portal at testrange.army.mil, and Army officials say a concierge team from ATEC and the Indiana National Guard will help move commercial prototypes toward soldier use.
- The expansion builds on five ranges opened in August and is intended to cut testing wait times from 12–18 months toward a target of about 30 days, which could speed procurement and boost integration of autonomy, AI, and robotics into force inventories.