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 Ari-
zona, and Ms. SINEMA) submitted the following resolution; which was re-
ferred 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 Cal-
vary ‘‘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 nam-
ing 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 electro-
magnetic 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 pre-
mier C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Com-
puters, 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 Elec-
tronic Warfare equipment for the Department of De-
fense, other Federal agencies and private industry; 
Whereas the pristine electromagnetic spectrum around Fort 
Huachuca’s Electronic Proving Grounds provides the nec-
essary 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 ad-
vances that have saved the lives of countless United 
States warfighters: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the threats that members of the 
United States Armed Forces face on the battlefield 
are changing and the enemy will present unique 
challenges that call for proven equipment tested at 
the Electronic Proving Ground; 
(2) recognizes and supports the missions and 
long term viability of Fort Huachuca and its Elec-
tronic Proving Ground; 
(3) expresses the importance of real world test-
ing at open air ranges of electronic equipment in the 
Electronic Proving Ground; and 
(4) expresses strong appreciation to the soldiers 
and civilians, both past and present, for their 60 
years of hard work and dedication at the Electronic 
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Proving Ground and for their service to the United 
States. 
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