# Data and Sensors

**R-2A activity** of project CY50S1 — Data and Sensors  
**Program element:** 0306250JCY — Cyber Operations Technology Support  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 7  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0306250JCY/CY50S1/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0306250JCY/CY50S1

## Summary

This activity requests $266.2M in FY2027, 100% of project CY50S1, up 127% 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.** $266.173M in FY 2027 funding will mature the Command’s Data Analytic Support Cell (DASC), enabling the use of advanced analytical tools aligned to mission threads and an analytic scheme of maneuver to improve command and control of the DCDC. Additionally, FY 2027 resources will sustain existing USINDOPACOM capabilities installed from FY 2024 through FY 2026. Sustainment activities will include continued development of improved and/or additional tools and tradecraft methodologies to ensure sensing and monitoring capabilities remain effective against a constantly evolving threat landscape.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The $148.954 million increase reflects a strategic shift from NC3 kit procurement—scheduled to conclude in FY 2026—to the operationalization of AI driven data analytics and the expansion of OT sensor deployments. Increased funding supports the USCYBERCOM 2.0 mandate for integrated force generation and enhanced mission monitoring capabilities, while corresponding decreases are realized through efficiencies gained from cloud native transitions and the decommissioning of legacy on premise hardware.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** $117.219M in funding will significantly enhance sensing and monitoring capabilities across the Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) pilot effort. Resources will support continued development of operator training, advanced analytics, and necessary hardware and software refinements. Maturing the NC3 sensing and monitoring pilot is essential to ensuring the capability is effective, suitable, and fully integrated to support daily defensive cyber operations across the NC3 Enterprise. For PDI Enhanced Sensing initiatives, FY 2026 funding will sustain capabilities installed during FY 2024–2025 and support planning to improve existing sensors, deploy additional tools, and refine tradecraft methodologies. These enhancements are required to keep pace with a dynamic and rapidly evolving threat environment. Advanced sensing and monitoring remain vital to early adversary detection and timely defensive response.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** The FY 2025 funds associated with USINDOPACOM’s PDI supports deployment of tools and development of tradecraft that detect opportunities for adversarial access to midpoint and/or endpoint devices via telecommunication streams of the Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum, terrestrial fiber links and the Internet of Things (IOT). The intent is to discover and identify unique and constantly evolving vulnerabilities to key networks to improve the overall defensive posture in the AOR.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 44.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 117.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 266.2 |

> 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.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0306250JCY project CY50S1 (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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