IV 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 736 

Affirming the importance of the Electronic Proving Ground at Fort 

Huachuca, Arizona, to the United States Armed Forces and national 

security on its 60th anniversary. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 

Mr. BARBER (for himself, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. 

SALMON, Mr. SCHWEIKERT, Mr. PASTOR of Arizona, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, and Ms. SINEMA) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 

RESOLUTION 

Affirming the importance of the Electronic Proving Ground 

at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, to the United States Armed 

Forces and national security on its 60th anniversary. 

Whereas Fort Huachuca is a product of the Indian Wars in 

the late 19th century in which Colonel August V. Kautz, 

commander of the Department of Arizona, ordered that 

a camp be established in the Huachuca Mountains in 

February 1877; 

Whereas in 1913, the first African-American unit, 10th Calvary ‘‘Buffalo Soldiers’’, arrived and remained almost 20 

years, during which they joined General John Pershing in 

the 1916 expedition into Mexico and during World War 


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I was assigned the mission of guarding the United 

States-Mexico border; 

Whereas the legacy of this famous unit was honored by naming Fort Huachuca’s testing range the Buffalo Soldier 

Electronic Testing Range; 

Whereas in the 1930s, the 25th Infantry Regiment replaced 

the 10th Calvary in Fort Huachuca and eventually sent 

up to 30,000 troops to fight in the European theater of 

World War II; 

Whereas in 1954, the Army’s Chief Signal Officer realized 

the incredibly unique environment located at Fort 

Huachuca for electronic and communications equipment 

testing and since then, the Electronic Proving Ground 

has tested many pieces of equipment that have enabled 

and strengthened our military in the past 60 years; 

Whereas Southern Arizona’s unique geography containing a 

bowl shaped valley enclosed by mountains more than 

4,000 feet above sea level offers more than 9,000 square 

miles of land protected and free from outside electromagnetic interference which provides the best open-air 

electronic test range in the world; 

Whereas operations are routinely possible on the 70,000 acres 

and 964 square miles of the Electronic Proving Grounds 

due to FAA restricted airspace over this area; 

Whereas the Electronic Proving Ground is the Army’s premier C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) 

validation and developmental tester under the Army Test 

and Evaluation Command; 

Whereas the mission of the Electronic Proving Ground is to 

plan, conduct, and analyze the results of technical tests 


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for C5ISR systems and Electronic Combat and Electronic Warfare equipment for the Department of Defense, other Federal agencies and private industry; 

Whereas the pristine electromagnetic spectrum around Fort 

Huachuca’s Electronic Proving Grounds provides the necessary environment for the development of a myriad of 

improvised explosive device-defeat technologies; and 

Whereas over the past decade of testing, Fort Huachuca and 

the Electronic Proving Ground have provided the Army 

indispensable expertise that resulted in technological advances that have saved the lives of countless United 

States warfighters: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) recognizes the threats that members of the 

3 United States Armed Forces face on the battlefield 

4 are changing and the enemy will present unique 

5 challenges that call for proven equipment tested at 

6 the Electronic Proving Ground; 

7 (2) recognizes and supports the missions and 

8 long term viability of Fort Huachuca and its Elec9 tronic Proving Ground; 

10 (3) expresses the importance of real world test11 ing at open air ranges of electronic equipment in the 

12 Electronic Proving Ground; and 

13 (4) expresses strong appreciation to the soldiers 

14 and civilians, both past and present, for their 60 

15 years of hard work and dedication at the Electronic 


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1 Proving Ground and for their service to the United 

2 States. 

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