# Physical and Virtual Connectivity for the 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/a2  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0208086JCY

## Summary

This activity requests $40.2M in FY2027, 33% 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.** With $40.155M PCTE will: • Maintain PCTE enterprise support through continued use of a hybrid-cloud infrastructure - leveraging both commercial and government data centers - to ensure seamless operational support across all enclaves. • Ensure platform readiness by delivering infrastructure and operational support services, while applying software development practices to continuously improve platform capabilities. • Support targeted training events, including select small-scale cloud-based live-action events and USCYBERCOM 2000-level training courses.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The $1.382M reduction results from strategic transitions to lower‑cost, government‑managed data centers and aggressive contract‑management optimizations for remaining PCTE Enterprise platforms. Additional efficiencies are achieved through implementation of the JCWA ‘NextGen’ concept, which establishes a common foundation platform and shared services across the JCWA portfolio. Mission Benefits include: • Enhanced Readiness and Lethality. Migrating to government managed infrastructure increases server utilization and scalability, enabling more frequent, larger, and more realistic collective training exercises. This directly improves Cyber Mission Force (CMF) readiness by accelerating personnel certification and supporting high fidelity mission rehearsal scenarios across diverse operational conditions. • Interoperability and Speed. Adopting a common foundation across the JCWA reduces duplicative software development and eliminates technical silos. This ensures new cyber tools and capabilities developed within JCWA can be integrated into the training environment with minimal delay, maintaining alignment between training systems and real-world operational environments. Resource Reinvestment. Transitioning from higher cost commercial hosting to optimized government managed solutions frees resources for high priority modernization efforts. These efficiencies allow USCYBERCOM to reinvest savings into capability development, platform enhancements, and mission critical improvements that strengthen overall CMF readiness.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** PCTE will: • Leverage Department of War and commercial enterprise transport services across UNCLASSIFIED, SECRET/RELEASABLE, and TOP SECRET enclaves to maintain secure, reliable connectivity for distributed training. • Expand physical infrastructure to Service schoolhouses and advance cloud‑based development in alignment with JCWA guidance. • Increase infrastructure capacity across all enclaves to support accelerated schoolhouse training, alignment of training content to CMF Job Qualification Records (JQRs), collective training events, and expanded mission rehearsal capabilities—including integration with Rapid Capability Development Network solutions. • Broaden the use of commercial and government‑owned data centers to deploy PCTE Enterprise platforms across all enclaves, improving scalability, resiliency, and availability.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Funding focusses on enabling the platform infrastructure to scale to meet Cyber Mission Force (CMF) readiness objectives. As part of the technical refresh strategy, PCTE integrated scalable enterprise platforms for the SECRET/RELEASABLE and TOP SECRET enclaves. PCTE expands infrastructure on existing UNCLASSIFIED platforms, expanding RCS capacity and delivering infrastructure improvements required to enable schoolhouse training on PCTE, significantly increasing PCTE’s ability to host CMF JQR training and expanding mission rehearsal capabilities. To support readiness, PCTE infrastructure leverages DoD and commercial enterprise transport services at the UNCLASSIFIED, SECRET/RELEASABLE, and TOP SECRET enclaves.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 51.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 41.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 40.2 |

> 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

- [Event Management for Persistent Cyber Training Environment](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0208086JCY/CY86T1/a0) — FY2027 69.9
- 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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