What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project CY85R1 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.
• Continue modernization and refresh of CNMF unclassified infrastructure supporting Hunt Operations, including replacement of servers and related equipment. • Maintain focus on integrating existing capabilities and tools into the JCWA to improve overall platform effectiveness and interoperability with Joint capabilities
The $67.1 million increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 supports the Cyberspace Rapid Response Platform. This funding procures the infrastructure required for Hunt Forward and other defensive cyber teams to operate in ally and partner nation networks. The investment provides low‑equity—disposable and non‑attributable—platforms essential for minimizing operational risk and protecting U.S. tools, tradecraft, and partnerships during defensive cyberspace operations.
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.
• Complete the refresh of CNMF DCO infrastructure supporting Hunt Forward Operations, replacing aging servers and related equipment. • Continue limited support to U.S. Indo‑Pacific Command’s Pacific Deterrence Initiative, with a focus on integrating capabilities and tools into the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture to enhance interoperability with Joint capabilities. • Shift CENTURION priorities from development and fielding toward integration and operationalization of current capabilities with partner platforms, the JCWA, and other hard target initiatives. • Conduct robust testing, evaluation, and exercise activities to increase readiness and expand the number of available capabilities for Combatant Commands. • Continue development and fielding of additional non kinetic capabilities and applications aligned with mission needs and emerging opportunities. • Support collaboration with mission partners through Technical Exchange Meetings, joint demonstrations, and sharing of applications and documentation.
FY 2025 funding for Robust Infrastructure supports increasing maturity in acquiring, deploying, and improving technical infrastructure, expert contract services, and low-equity cyber tooling to meet the specific rapid access generation and tradecraft innovation/transfer needs of CNMF's JTF ZERO. FY 2025 funding for CENTURION allows the effort to execute the development pipeline of capabilities, further identifying appropriate mechanisms to support USCYBERCOM and DoD goals and mission imperatives. CENTURION delivers additional non-kinetic capabilities/ applications in accordance with identified opportunities and mission goals and expand applicability of strategy and tools to support additional AORs as needed and directed. Other key efforts include developing a roadmap to integrate RF enabled capabilities on partner platforms that enable full-spectrum cyber operations with initial demonstrated capability by the fourth quarter of FY 2025.
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 | 52.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 87.5 |
This activity is 100% of project CY85R1's FY2027 request and 56% 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 CY85R1
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.