Army adds Indiana National Guard sites to Permissive Test Range Expansion Initiative

The linked Giant FM report says Acting Secretary of the Army Adam R. Telle announced at the 5th Annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit on 2026-10-29 that Indiana National Guard locations are being added to the Army’s Permissive Test Range Expansion Initiative.

Giant FM reports that Camp Atterbury is among the designated sites and offers more than 34,000 acres of secure space plus a restricted airspace corridor reaching up to 40,000 feet. The report says the Muscatatuck Training Center is included as a roughly 1,000-acre developmental testing area with configurable urban infrastructure for testing navigation and tracking systems for drones and counter‑drone technologies. The story characterizes the selected sites as providing specialized testing capabilities for those systems in Indiana, per the linked report. Giant FM also reports that private companies can request access to the Indiana testing environments through the Army’s test range portal, testrange.army.mil, and that the Army Test and Evaluation Command’s private industry concierge team will work with vendors and the Indiana National Guard to coordinate testing schedules and requirements. The report frames the initiative as a way for commercial vendors to use military testing environments for research, development and system hardening while avoiding more complex administrative hurdles.

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