Muscatatuck Training Center – Butlerville IN

Description

Muscatatuck Training Center (MuTC) offers users a globally unique, urban and rural, multi-domain operating environment that is recognized as the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) largest and most realistic urban training facility serving those who work to defend the homeland and win the peace.

Muscatatuck is a real city that includes a built physical infrastructure, a well-integrated cyber-physical environment, an electromagnetic effects system and human elements. Muscatatuck offers realistic, flexible and affordable training and testing scenarios. The site supports customized live/virtual/constructive (LVC) training, developmental testing and evaluation.

The multi-domain environment includes a physical metropolitan infrastructure, a 1,000 acre urban and rural landscape with more than 300 brick-and-mortar structures with roughly 1.5 million square feet under roof, 1.8 miles of subterranean tunnels, a cave complex, more than nine miles of roads, managed airspace, a 180-acre reservoir, and a cyber live-fire range.

The center was formerly the Muscatatuck State Developmental Center. The property was acquired by the Indiana National Guard after the hospital closed in 2005.

Although there are three original hospital buildings from the 1920’s, when the facility was called the Indiana Farm Colony for the Feeble-Minded, still on the site, much of the hospital infrastructure was built with PWA funding between 1937 and 1939. New Deal grants contributed to 24 buildings at the (then) Muscatatuck Colony for the Feeble-Minded. PWA paid $1,033,650 of the $2,297,000 cost of the project