# Information Sys Security Program — Program Element 0303140N

**Program element:** 0303140N  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 7 — Operational System Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0303140N

## Summary

U.S. Navy funding ramps 23% to a $79.1M request in FY2027, sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators added 13% (to $89.1M). NIWC PACIFIC leads the industry work, though an unusually large share flows to government labs and warfare centers.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 34.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 64.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 79.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 93.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 81.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 81.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 83.0 |

> Estimate types are not summed — the profile mixes actuals, enacted law, the request, and outyear projections.

## Congressional marks (FY2027)

| Stage | Marked ($M) | Change ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| Request | 79.1 | — |
| House NDAA (HASC) | 79.1 | +0.0 |
| Senate NDAA (SASC) | 79.1 | +0.0 |
| House Approps (HAC-D) | 89.1 | +10.0 |

> FY2027 NDAA authorization marks, as of 2026-07-27. Not appropriations or final law.

## Projects (3)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3244 | Cybersecurity Engineering | 0.0 | 30.2 | 47.6 | +57% |
| 0734 | Communications Security R&D | 32.2 | 31.5 | 29.2 | −7% |
| 3230 | Information Assurance | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.3 | −2% |

> Projects are the summable leaves: the program element total is their sum, never added to it.

### Project 3244 — Cybersecurity Engineering

This effort funds a continuing cybersecurity program, Situational Awareness Boundary Enforcement and Response (SABER), and a maturing Cybersecurity project, High Availability Virtual Environment (HAVEN). SABER is the research, design, development, testing, and installation of Cybersecurity solutions for installed integrated computer networks to include shipboard Hull Mechanical and Electrical (HM&E), Navigation Systems, Combat Systems, Fire Control, Sonar, Radar, Communications, and other shipboard computerized control systems for all afloat U.S. Navy platforms. SABER provides network boundary defense and situational awareness to protect and detect against external and internal cybersecurity-threats. HAVEN is a secure operating environment that provides a resilient and redundant infrastructure platform for rapid software deployment and system restoration. HAVEN provides the secure operating environment for SABER and a secure hosting environment. HAVEN has been considered a part of SABER and continued HAVEN development has led the Navy to understand that this capability may have use beyond hosting SABER.

**Named R-3 performers** (share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total, so they need not reach 100%)**:** NIWC PAC (0.6, 1.3%).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SABER | 0.0 | 30.2 | 47.6 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project 0734 — Communications Security R&D

The Information Systems Security Program (ISSP) Research Development Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) efforts extend our cybersecurity and resiliency, provide Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO), and cross domain solutions to protect data, Department of War (DoW) Information Networks (DoWIN), net-centric operations, the forward deployed, and other designated systems to protect cyberspace and critical warfighting capabilities. This project includes a rapidly evolving development, design and application integration effort to modernize cryptographic equipment and ancillaries with state-of-the-art replacements to counter evolving and increasingly sophisticated threats. Communications Security (COMSEC) and Transmission Security (TRANSEC) are evolving from stand-alone, dedicated devices to embedded modules incorporating National Security Agency (NSA) approved cryptographic engines, loaded with the certified algorithms and keys, and interconnected via industry-defined interfaces. This includes the DoWIN capability requirements document for the development of Content Based Encryption (CBE). Computer Network Defense (CND): The CND program provides cyberspace capabilities to secure the Cyber Domain. CND is a combination of hardware, software, sets of processes and protective measures that use computer networks to detect, monitor, protect, analyze and defend against network infiltrations resulting in service/network denial, degradation and disruptions. CND enables a government or military institute/organization to defend against network attacks perpetrated by malicious or adversarial computer systems or networks. Navy Cryptography (Crypto): Navy Crypto modernizes legacy cryptographic equipment which includes families of COMSEC and TRANSEC devices that are divided into crypto voice, crypto data, crypto products and associated ancillary devices. These devices provide modern cryptographic solutions to replace obsolete, legacy devices within the crypto categories to meet mandated National Security Agency (NSA) cease key dates for modernized encryption. Advanced Cryptographic Capabilities (ACC) will provide NSA mandated cryptographic security software modernization of various communications security devices by cease key dates (details held at a higher classification).

**Named R-3 performers** (share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total, so they need not reach 100%)**:** NIWC PACIFIC (14.7, 50%), NIWC ATLANTIC (7.4, 25%), BAH (3.1, 11%), Accenture (0.9, 3.2%).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Network Defense (CND) | 15.5 | 16.7 | 15.1 |
| Navy Cryptography (Crypto) | 10.8 | 8.3 | 8.6 |
| Key Management (KM) | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.4 |
| Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| SHARKCAGE | 1.7 | 2.3 | 2.8 |
| Navy Cyber Situational Awareness (NCSA) | 2.6 | 2.7 | 1.9 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project 3230 — Information Assurance

The goal of the Information Systems Security Program (ISSP) is to ensure the continued protection of Navy and joint information and information systems from hostile exploitation and attack. The ISSP activities address the triad of Defense Information Operations: protection, detection, and reaction. Evolving attack sensing (detection), warning, and response (reaction) responsibilities extend far beyond the traditional ISSP role in the protection of Information Systems, including weapons systems. Focused on the highly mobile forward deployed subscriber, the Navy's adoption of Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) places demands upon the ISSP, as the number of users expands significantly and the criticality of their use escalates. Today, the ISSP protects an expanding core of services critical to the effective performance of the Navy's mission, as well as developing information assurance technology and systems that are resilient and survivable in the face of adversarial attacks. Features that are critical in supporting the Navy's concept of Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO). The rapid rate of change in the underlying commercial and government information infrastructures makes the provision of security an increasingly complex and dynamic problem. Information Assurance (IA) technology mix and deployment strategies must evolve quickly to meet rapidly evolving threats and vulnerabilities. No longer can information security be divorced from the information infrastructure. The ISSP enables the Navy's war fighter to trust in the availability, integrity, authentication, privacy, and non-repudiation of information. This project includes funds for advanced technology development, test and evaluation of naval information systems security based on leading edge technologies that will improve information assurance (e.g., situational awareness and information infrastructure protection) across all command echelons to tactical units afloat and war fighters ashore. This effort will provide the research to develop a secure seamless interoperable, common operational environment of networked information systems in the battle space and for monitoring and protecting the information infrastructure from malicious activities.

**Named R-3 performers** (share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total, so they need not reach 100%)**:** NRL (2.3, 100%).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Assurance (IA) | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.3 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

## Where the FY2027 request goes

| Category | Share | $M |
|---|---|---|
| Industry primes | 39% | 30.5 |
| Government labs & warfare centers | 52% | 40.8 |
| Other / unspecified | 9.9% | 7.8 |

**Top named industry performers:** NIWC PACIFIC ($14.7M, 19%), NIWC ATLANTIC ($7.4M, 9.3%), BAH ($3.1M, 4.0%), NRL ($3.1M, 3.9%).

> R-3 exhibit contract funding, not USAspending obligations.

## Mission & acquisition strategy

The Information Systems Security Program (ISSP) Research Development Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) efforts extend our cybersecurity and resiliency, provide Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO), and cross domain solutions to protect data, Department of War (DoW) Information Networks (DoWIN), net-centric operations, the forward deployed, and other designated systems to protect cyberspace and critical warfighting capabilities. This project includes a rapidly evolving development, design and application integration effort to modernize cryptographic equipment and ancillaries with state-of-the-art replacements to counter evolving and increasingly sophisticated threats.

Computer Network Defense (CND): The CND Acquisition Category (ACAT) IVM program is a layered protection strategy, which militarizes Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and integrates Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) hardware and software products that collectively provide an effective network security infrastructure. The rapid advancement of cyber technology requires an efficient process for updating CND tools deployed to afloat and ashore platforms. Recognizing the need for future CND capability improvements, the CND program implements an evolutionary acquisition strategy that continuously modernizes and refreshes end-of-life/end-of-service capabilities to ensure the latest cybersecurity tools are protecting the Navy's tactical networks.

## Related program elements

- [0604574N — Navy Tactical Computer Resources](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604574N) (Navy)
- [0304785N — ISR & INFO Operations](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0304785N) (Navy)
- [0203758A — Digitization](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0203758A) (Army)
- [0305128F — TECH Surveil Counter MEAS EQPT](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305128F) (Air Force)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0303140N (PB PB2027); FY2027 NDAA committee marks (as of 2026-07-27).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0303140N")`.

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