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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Cyber Security Initiative

PE 0305103C·Defense-Wide·Approp. 0400 — RDT&E·BA4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes
FY2027 Request
$2.2M
Defense-Wide · RDT&E
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Defense-Wide requests $2.2M in FY2027 — the program's peak. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full.

FY2027 Request
$2.2M
▲ 2.7% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$2.1M
▲ 11% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$1.9M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, Defense-Wide agencies are requesting $2.2M for Cyber Security Initiative under RDT&E program element 0305103C, up 2.7% over FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031

Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.

01.9FY25ACTUAL2.1FY26ENACTED2.2FY27REQUEST2.0FY281.8FY291.7FY301.7FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual1.9
FY2026Enacted2.1
FY2027Request2.2
FY2028Outyear2.0
FY2029Outyear1.8
FY2030Outyear1.7
FY2031Outyear1.7
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Current
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0305103C

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves 3% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project MDCS

Cyber Security Initiative

$2.2MFY2027 request ▲ 3%
FY2025 actual$1.9M
FY2026 enacted$2.1M
FY2027 request$2.2M
Support

The Department of War (DoW) Counterintelligence in Cyberspace (CIC) mission initiative falls under the functional and fiscal management of the Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Counterintelligence (CI) Division conducts defensive CIC activities pursuant to Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5240.02 (Counterintelligence), DoD Instruction 5240.23 (CI Activities in Cyberspace), DoD Instruction 5240.26 (Countering Espionage, International Terrorism, and the CI Insider Threat), and an MDA Annex within an annual DIA-approved Implementation Plan.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
DoD CI in Cyberspace Initiative▲ 3%
FY2025 actual$1.9M
FY2026 enacted$2.1M
FY2027 request$2.2M

The exhibit describes this work once, for project MDCS as a whole, rather than per activity. Read the project justification →

Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$2.2M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$2.2M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$2.2M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$2.2M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it

Where the FY2027 request goes

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Government labs & warfare centers69%1.5
Other / unspecified31%0.7
FY2027 request100%2.2
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Counterintelligence (CI) Division conducts CI in Cyberspace activities pursuant to Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5240.02 (Counterintelligence) and DoD Instruction 5240.23 (CI Activities in Cyberspace) to identify, disrupt, neutralize, and mitigate foreign intelligence services and international terrorist organizations, hereafter referred to as foreign entities, to act in observable or exploitable ways. To this end, the MDA CI Division conducts activities to detect, neutralize, and mitigate foreign entity-directed malicious and insider threat activities targeting MDA administrative and Missile Defense fire control networks and mobile devices.

This project leverages expertise in the intelligence community, counterintelligence community, and information assurance community, including the Military Services, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, University Affiliated Research Centers, and industry. Products and Services will be acquired by competitive means to the extent that is possible and practical.

Project MDCS — Cyber Security Initiative
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FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0305103C (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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