# Battering Ram

**R-2A activity** of project 674550 — Operations Security (OPSEC)  
**Program element:** 0203345F — Operations Security (OPSEC)  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 7  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0203345F/674550/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0203345F

> **NEW START.** $45.0M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

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.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 45.0 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0203345F project 674550 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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