The laboratory’s 890-squaremile site can be used for largescale interagency technology 13-GA50222-03 and capability demonstrations. Students also have access to nuclear facilities including operating reactors, hot cells, and analytical laboratories inside a controlled location that provides a safe and secure environment for training.

• INL has conducted RDD and WMD classroom and field training since 2002.
• Participants have controlled access to live radioactive materials including sealed sources, fissile materials, and spent nuclear fuels.
• INL’s 890-square-mile site, nuclear infrastructure, and staff expertise are ideal for conducting detection, identification, measurement, and recovery exercises.
• The laboratory has provided source material and expertise to agencies wishing to conduct training at their facilities.
• INL’s site has been utilized for several radiological joint capability and technology demonstrations.

INL survivability engineers and materials scientists are designing, validating and manufacturing unique armor prototypes that increase protection levels while reducing weight and production costs. Over the last 25 years, many of the lab’s survivability designs have been used around the world to safeguard people, vehicles and facilities.

The complex consists of eight indoor and outdoor ranges, and tactical training facilities located on 330 acres of iso­lated, desert-type terrain. The facilities support research and development testing and train­ing and testing of handguns, rifles and heavy weapons such as machine guns, precision rifles, grenade launchers and shoulder-fired, anti-armor weapons. Explosive training and testing, including breach­ing, is also conducted.

National Security Test Range provides access to capabilities to understand and mitigate emerging challenges being faced on the battlefield.

• 8-­km range fan
• Classified testing capability
• Tactical breaching training
• Classified networking
• Dynamic testing experience

With its access-controlled boundary, high-desert terrain and sparse population, INL’s desert site is in a unique position to offer unmanned aerial vehicle and unmanned ground vehicle collaborative operational testing and demonstration. INL’s UAS program focuses on unique applications and missions for a wide variety of customers looking for affordable, field-deployable airframe technologies with meaningful payload and endurance. The lab’s UAS training is designed to ensure that unmanned aerial vehicles are used properly throughout the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration. The range also supports implementation of new legislation regarding protection of critical infrastructure.

The Critical Infrastructure Test Range Complex (CITRC) houses several former nuclear facilities that have been repurposed for national security testing and training. The complex was once home to several experimental nuclear reactors supporting the Special Power Excursion Reactor Tests (SPERT) Area and the Power Burst Facility. These facilities now support radiological search and response training and counterproliferation activities.

In addition, it is home to INL’s Power Grid Test Bed featuring the commercial-grade SPERT substation, Raghorn transmission line, and several associated test pads and laydown areas used for experimental power grid testing and training. there is water security testing area used for developing decontamination methods for pipes and equipment, and designing better, more resilient water infrastructure. Various classrooms, office buildings, and storage containers complete the complex.

The Central Facilities Area (CFA) supports the Wireless Test Bed network and operations center. It also includes several site-wide support services for protection, emergency response (INL Fire Department), network and communications, transportation (INL bus depot), and warehouse services for the various site campuses.