What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 006 of PE 0307609V. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
To support NI2, improve the planning, design, engineering, and implement improvements to NISS. Develop capabilities that utilize Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AI/ML) to support advanced risk-related analytic requirements. Expand multi-domain data management to deliver a comprehensive view of risk, including threat, vulnerability, and impact. FY2027 development will also include automation of Counterintelligence Vulnerability – Facility (CV-F), Arms, Ammunition, & Explosives (AA&E), DIB and Engagement capabilities, continuing to refactor of legacy NISS workflows into NI2, and implementation of impact level 6 (IL6) SIPR-NI2 capabilities. Expand available data sources for FRMS in support of FOCI compliance. The program will conclude with the consolidation of all applications into a single, integrated NISS platform.
The reduction in funds from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects a planned realignment of funding from RDTE to O&M to align program resources with the updated Life-Cycle Cost Estimate and the transition of capabilities from development to sustainment.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Provide continued system development and enhancement for the NISS, NISP Contract Classification System (NCCS) 2.0, and FY 2020 NDAA Section 847 Beneficial Ownership applications. Activities will include integration of multiple data sources and enhancements to risk assessment and analytic capabilities. Support the continuous delivery of secure, automated, IT capabilities for the DCSA Industrial Security Directorate to enable effective entity vetting, risk identification, and mitigation for cleared and uncleared industry operating in the DIB. Develop and integrate new data sources for Facility Risk Management System (FRMS) in support of FOCI compliance. Provide Tier 3 help-desk resources to meet increased user demand following go-live of DFARS-driven FOCI workflows as part of the NISS Increment II (NI2) Minimum Viable Capability Release (MVCR). Finalize workflow development, system integration, go-live activities, and post-deployment help-desk support for NCCS. The NCCS workflow development includes incorporation of key capabilities such as query and reporting tools, Certificate Pertaining to Foreign Interests (SF-328) interface, and other mission-critical automation features. Complete account/case/workflow documentation management for NISS, and initiate refactoring of legacy NISS workflows into NI2.
In support of the NISS Increment 2 plan, design, engineer, and implement improvements to NISS, field the MVP of NISS cloud modernization, and begin integration of NISS into the COS cloud environment. Develop Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AI/ML) enabled capabilities to support analytic requirements. Develop multi-domain data management for full risk picture (threat, vulnerability, impact). Enhance field oversight by providing an enhanced user interface for DCSA and Defense Security personnel working in support of the NISS and critical technology programs. Enhancements will provide enterprise views and links to critical supply chain data and be able to visualize how oversight, compliance, and counterintelligence reporting will affect ongoing classified program protection efforts. Planning and re-engineering architecture of new workflows for changes to the internet protocol and firewall settings for the flow of decisions from NIPR to SIPR for NISS. Manufacture data interfaces enabling interoperability between NISS and other government systems to reduce operational complexity and required additional support. Develop and pilot innovative technology to allow “continuous entity vetting” by using a mix of open and paid sources enhanced by classified intelligence to assess risks to the NISP companies and government data stored in 5,700 IT systems over which DCSA maintains security cognizance. Design, engineer, and implement the emerging NISS solution to support FY 2020 NDAA Section 847, for modernization of acquisition processes to ensure integrity of industrial base. The program's end concludes in the merger of all applications into a single NISS. Expand existing data sources to include data from the DoD Advancing Analytics (ADVANA) platform and incorporate other government data sources in the data architectures supporting national interest determinations and potential threat actor risk vectors.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 33.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 19.8 |
This activity is 100% of project 006's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0307609V's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
1 activity in project 006
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.