R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Battering Ram

Activity a0·Project 674550 — Operations Security (OPSEC)·PE 0203345F·U.S. Air Force
FY2027 Request
$45.0M
◆ New start in FY2027
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This activity requests $45.0M in FY2027, 100% of project 674550 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

New start

This activity requests $45.0M in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding. There is no incumbent line to compare it with — it did not exist before this President's Budget.

FY2027 Request
$45.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Planned work

What the FY2027 request buys

Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 674550 of PE 0203345F. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.

FY2027 planned work

- Will begin to develop and deploy the initial integrated software capability with a modular architecture, including user-facing interfaces, workflow pipelines, and role-based access for classification, declassification, and policy adjudication functions. - Will begin to implement and mature AI-based and deterministic rule-based classification engines to deliver incremental capability and reduce risk to large-scale DoW-wide deployment. - Will begin to develop and apply data analytics capabilities to identify patterns, inconsistencies, and relationships across classification guidance to refine classification logic and policy alignment. - Will continue digitization, normalization, and improvement of classification guidance to maintain machine-readable policy inputs that can be updated without full system reconfiguration. - Will begin to establish the foundational Multi-Level Information System (MLIS) environment, including compute, storage, and accreditation, to support phased expansion across NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, and SAP networks. - Will conduct continuous testing, user feedback, and monitoring of system performance to verify and validate classification accuracy and data handling to correct errors and improve system performance. - Will begin to develop and implement the initial classification challenge workflow with appropriate government agencies.

FY2026 to FY2027 change

Funding increased because the effort is transitioning to be a formal program delivering operational information security capability across the DoW; the increase in funding supports the transition and expanded scope from the initial innovation effort previously under AFWERX.

Money

Three years, and no five-year plan

An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.

2500.0FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED45.0FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request45.0

This activity is 100% of project 674550's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0203345F's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.

Where this sits

1 activity in project 674550

Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the program-element page.

Battering Ram — this activity$45.0M NEW
Source
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0203345F, project 674550 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
Machine access
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