# Event Management for Persistent Cyber Training Environment

**R-2A activity** of project CY86T1 — Cyber Training Environment  
**Program element:** 0208086JCY — Cyber Training Environment  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0208086JCY/CY86T1/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0208086JCY

## Summary

This activity requests $69.9M in FY2027, 58% of project CY86T1, down 3.3% 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.** PCTE will: • Incorporate infrastructure and services to support AI-software capabilities for on-prem and cloud environments. • Enhance CMF Capabilities & Readiness: Prioritize funding for critical components (licenses, SMEs, cybersecurity) and deliver features improving capability, functionality, and user experience – including leveraging commercial data centers – to support. • Incorporate federated single sign-on capabilities across the PCTE and JCWA ecosystem. • Continue to explore other cyber range capabilities to incorporate Operational Technologies (OT) into the PCTE platform via Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL). • Evaluate Government-Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) and Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) training and assessment tools to incorporate a validated, cost-effective solution for providing immediate, actionable feedback on course effectiveness and student comprehension. • Incorporate software development processes and procedures into the JCWA ecosystem. • Continuing development of AI-enhanced cybersecurity monitoring and reporting tools into the PCTE platform. • Complete decommissioning of remaining PCTE legacy systems.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The $2.406 million decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects cost avoidances achieved through strategic partnerships and infrastructure consolidation. Collaboration with the Defense Innovation Unit enabled shared sustainment costs, while the integration of Industrial Control System, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, and gray‑space capabilities streamlined platform services and reduced duplicative efforts.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** The program will expand PCTE’s capacity, improve training realism, and strengthen integration across the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA). Planned efforts include: • Expand high‑side network access through JWICS to support Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) training. • Maintain the three‑year ATO across all classification levels and transition the Authorizing Official role from the Army to USCYBERCOM. • Continue onboarding and maintaining JQRs on the PCTE platform and explore expansion into offensive cyber operator work roles. • Evaluate AI capabilities for help desk automation, rapid range generation, advanced user/traffic emulation, and cyber monitoring/reporting. • Assess AI‑enabled content development tools to improve training content creation and standardization. • Integrate with Joint Cyber Command and Control–Readiness (JCC2‑R) to enhance training readiness reporting and expand real‑time analytics. • Incorporate JCC2‑R authoritative data to establish a unified user‑management interface across training applications. • Establish a Developmental Cloud connection with the USCYBERCOM Command Cloud infrastructure. • Deliver platform features that improve capability, functionality, and user experience to support CMF mission readiness. • Incorporate automation to serve as a force multiplier, enabling more dynamic, scalable, and realistic training scenarios. • Expand cloud capabilities to augment the hybrid cloud infrastructure across UNCLASSIFIED, SECRET, and TOP SECRET domains, supporting JQRs, schoolhouse content, and more than 8,000 cyber operators. • Support the Cyber Resiliency and Training (CRT) product office in advancing JCWA integration efforts. • Refine Rapid Range development processes to accelerate cyber range deployment. • Expand the use of third‑party vendors to enhance individual training competencies.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Funding focuses on capability improvements that enhance Cyber Mission Force (CMF) operations and support mission readiness. Areas of planned enhancements are comprised of PCTE application features and capability updates required to accelerate initial PCTE schoolhouse training, improve CMF JQRs training, and increase mission rehearsal capabilities. Improvements to the PCTE capability such as instructor course management, improved notifications and alerts functionality, automated environment building, and external content integration will be developed and integrated to support USCYBERCOM holistic readiness objectives.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 84.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 72.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 69.9 |

> 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.

## Other activities in project CY86T1

- [Physical and Virtual Connectivity for the Persistent Cyber Training Environment](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0208086JCY/CY86T1/a2) — FY2027 40.2
- Environment Operations and Management for Persistent Cyber Training Environment — FY2027 7.9
- Persistent Cyber Training Environment Test and Evaluation — FY2027 2.8

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0208086JCY project CY86T1 (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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