Where Emerging Technologies Meet Operational Reality

Located in rural West Virginia, the Civil-Military Innovation Institute (CMI2) Fort Andrew Multi-Domain Proving Ground is the premier East Coast destination for experimentation and validating emerging technologies. Fort Andrew connects innovators with operators in a realistic operational environment, enabling rapid experimentation, objective evaluation, and capability refinement. By bridging the gap between development and deployment, the proving ground helps accelerate the fielding of mission-ready solutions.

This state-of-the-art facility enables integrated experimentation across ground, air, cyber, and electromagnetic domains, allowing military users and innovators to simulate operational conditions, assess performance, and refine solutions in real time. These capabilities directly contribute to improving warfighter readiness and effectiveness, supporting the development of next-generation systems that increase lethality and operational precision.

The Fort Andrew site also plays a key role in supporting national security objectives, such as U.S. Southern Border operations or other critical national security objectives, like the Golden Dome initiative. By providing a secure and adaptable space for testing surveillance, mobility, and response technologies, CMI2 contributes to strengthening border defense and enhancing the operational capabilities of units assigned to those missions.

The CMI2 Adaptive Experimentation Facility at Fort Andrew is a critical asset for preparing military forces to meet complex threats across all operational theaters through this unique blend of mission-focused experimentation, tactical innovation, and strategic support.

Fort Andrew provides a realistic operational environment where organizations can rigorously test, evaluate, and refine emerging technologies beyond the constraints of the laboratory. Leveraging advanced instrumentation, comprehensive data collection, on-site fabrication and engineering support and expert analysis, the proving ground delivers actionable insights that accelerate validation, reduce development risk, and help transition promising capabilities into operational use with greater speed and confidence.

Organizations can collect real-time performance data, evaluate operational effectiveness, identify vulnerabilities, implement modifications on-site and make informed decisions before deployment, acquisition, or fielding.

• Integrated Experimentation and Validation – The Fort Andrew Multi-Domain Proving Ground supports a wide range of experimentation, testing, and validation activities that accelerate the transition of emerging capabilities from development to operational use.
• Emerging Technology Demonstrations – Assess and refine advanced technologies in realistic operational environments that replicate the complexities, constraints, and challenges of modern mission sets.
• Operational Concepts and Small Unit Experimentation – Provide military leaders and technology developers with a controlled environment to evaluate tactics, techniques, procedures, and capability concepts while capturing objective performance data to inform future operations and requirements.
• Technology Integration and Operational Assessments – Integrate emerging capabilities into exercises and mission scenarios to evaluate performance, collect user feedback, identify integration challenges, and support capability refinement prior to fielding.
• Data-Driven Performance Analysis – Leverage advanced instrumentation and comprehensive data collection systems to generate objective insights, validate performance, reduce risk, and support informed acquisition and operational decisions.

Fort Andrew combines operationally relevant environments, advanced instrumentation, engineering expertise, and rigorous experimentation methodologies to support the evaluation and maturation of emerging technologies. These capabilities provide organizations with the tools, data, and insights needed to validate performance, refine solutions, and accelerate the path to operational deployment.

Experimentation, Test, and Evaluation Support

CMI2’s team of military operators, engineers, and subject matter experts collaborates with organizations to design and execute rigorous experimentation, test, and evaluation activities. Each effort is structured to generate objective performance data, operational insights, and actionable recommendations that support capability validation, risk reduction, and informed transition decisions.

Advanced Data Collection and Analysis

Fort Andrew’s instrumentation and data collection infrastructure captures real-time performance data across personnel, platforms, and emerging technologies. Advanced analytics transform complex datasets into objective assessments that validate performance, identify improvement opportunities, and accelerate technology maturation.

Engineering and Technical Support

Organizations have access to multidisciplinary engineering expertise through the CMI2 Design Innovation Group (DIG). From system integration and technical troubleshooting to prototype refinement and capability enhancement, engineering support is available throughout the experimentation lifecycle to help maximize test objectives and operational outcomes.

Rapid Prototyping and Fabrication

On-site additive manufacturing, fabrication, and prototyping capabilities enable rapid technology development through iterative experimentation activities. Teams can modify, repair, and refine systems in real time, reducing delays, accelerating development cycles, and improving overall testing efficiency.

Operationally Relevant Environments

Fort Andrew provides diverse terrain, realistic mission scenarios, and multi-domain operating conditions that closely reflect real-world environments. These settings enable organizations to evaluate technologies, concepts, and tactics under conditions that reveal operational strengths, limitations, and integration challenges before fielding.

Industry & Emerging Technology Companies

Whether technology is in early development or approaching operational deployment, Fort Andrew provides a structured environment for experimentation and test and evaluation.

Organizations can:

• Develop and execute test and evaluation strategies
• Validate technology performance in realistic environments
• Collect operational data to guide product improvements
• Integrate technologies alongside military users and operational scenarios
• Demonstrate capabilities to government stakeholders and potential customers

Academic Institutions & Government Laboratories

Move innovations from controlled laboratory settings into operationally relevant environments.

Benefits include:

• Access to realistic experimentation scenarios
• Collaboration with CMI2 engineers and military subject matter experts
• On-site design, engineering, and fabrication support
• Data-driven validation and technology maturation

Department of War Components & Small Unit Leaders

Challenge assumptions, refine tactics, and test new capabilities in dynamic settings.

Units can:

• Evaluate emerging technologies alongside current tactics
• Test concepts, techniques, and procedures
• Develop warfighting skills in austere and realistic operational conditions
• Receive detailed performance data and analytical feedback
• Identify capability gaps and operational improvements

Federal Agencies

Assess technologies before acquisition or deployment.

Access to Fort Andrew enables federal agencies to:

• Create tailored operational scenarios
• Evaluate technology performance under realistic conditions
• Conduct independent assessments
• Receive third-party feedback and analysis from CMI2 experts
• Reduce procurement risk through objective experimentation