What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project CY85P1 of PE 0208085JCY. 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.
The program will continue delivering iterative releases to maintain platform security, stability, and resilience. Planned efforts include: • JCAP Fly-Away Kits: Test FY 2026 prototypes, incorporate operator feedback, and refine capabilities to support large scale off net operations. • Modernized Hybrid-Cloud Infrastructure: Test and integrate the modernized hybrid cloud architecture into the baseline to improve coordinated operations and operational continuity across data centers. • Wide-Area-Network (WAN) Technology Refresh: Refresh JCAP WAN infrastructure to increase connectivity speeds between JMOCs by 300%, replace End of Life (EOL) equipment, and reduce mission data transfer times. This leap in performance is critical for synchronizing complex operations across geographically dispersed teams and drastically reduces the time required to share vital mission data and commands. This refresh also replaces critical End of Life (EOL) equipment, mitigating a significant risk to mission readiness. • Artificial Intelligence: Optimize AI performance, integrate additional user requirements, achieve FOC, and begin planning for future GPU modernization. • Bridging and Off-Net Capabilities: Expand and optimize the architecture and networking layer for large-scale bridging and off-net operations.
The $0.009 million increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects adjustments for inflation and labor costs.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Funding supports the USCYBERCOM leadership priorities by delivering continuous platform enhancements, integrating emerging technologies, and maintaining mission readiness. Planned efforts include: • Bridging and Off‑Net Capabilities: Integrate the underlying architecture and networking layer required to support remote operations and enable JCAP Fly‑Away Kits. • JCAP Fly-Away Kits: Develop unclassified and classified prototypes to support remote, forward deployed, and off net operations, including missions in support of U.S. Indo Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). • Network Architecture Upgrade: Modernize the platform architecture to simplify workflows, improve scalability, and enable automated testing and seamless deployments within a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment. • Federated SOC: Complete development and fielding of a federated SOC capability across all four JMOCs. • Modernized Hybrid-Cloud Infrastructure: Deliver a prototype hybrid cloud architecture to improve orchestration, capacity, resiliency, and edge based operations. • Artificial Intelligence: Install high performance Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) across the platform’s data centers to unlock advanced AI enabled operations. Achieve an Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for AI-enabled operations in FY 2026. • JCWA/OCO Integration: Improve interoperability with Joint Cyber Weapons (JCW) and the Joint Development Environment (JDE) to streamline integration of new cyber effect.
Funding supports CDRUSCYBERCOM priorities to deliver capabilities that enhance the platforms' effectiveness while maintaining mission readiness. Continuous JCAP releases are planned to maintain readiness and address emerging technologies while staying aligned to USCYBERCOM priorities. Enhancements to the platform include: • Modernizing the infrastructure and software by transitioning from on-premises cloud to a hybrid-cloud architecture to optimize and increase capacity to support CMF operational demands • Adding a second data center to ensure continuity of operations and expand capacity • Delivering a federated security operations center that expands defensive cyberspace capabilities to all four cyber service components • Managing infrastructure orchestration across data centers for increased resiliency and failover • Integrating with other JCWA components, specifically integration of new cyber effects and enhancements in interoperability across the JCWA portfolio, with the Joint Cyber Command and Control (JCC2), Unified Platform (UP), Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE), and the Joint Deployment Environment (JDE).
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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 75.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 68.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 68.1 |
This activity is 100% of project CY85P1's FY2027 request and 44% of PE 0208085JCY'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.
1 activity in project CY85P1
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 project page.