CIFER work teams and potential adopters of one or more CIFER-Aligned packages need a place to begin to move ideas and proposed solutions toward realization. They need a resilient crash/burn/rebuild environment that supports everything from kicking the tires of a component package to doing proofs of concepts of partial or full solutions to real-world needs. The goal of the CIFER Testbed effort is to provide this environment and make it easy to use.