# Joint Common Access Platform

**R-2A activity** of project CY85P1 — JCAP  
**Program element:** 0208085JCY — Robust Infrastructure  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 7  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0208085JCY/CY85P1/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0208085JCY/CY85P1

## Summary

This activity requests $68.1M in FY2027, 100% of project CY85P1, up 0.0% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The $0.009 million increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects adjustments for inflation and labor costs.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** 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.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** 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).

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 75.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 68.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 68.1 |

> 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 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0208085JCY project CY85P1 (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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