# Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security (INGOTS)

**R-2A activity** of project MSL-04 — CYBER SECURITY  
**Program element:** 0602025E — Making, Maintaining, Supply CHAIN AND Logistics  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-04/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-04

## Summary

This activity requests $12.6M in FY2027, 8.0% of project MSL-04, up 13% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Develop and demonstrate techniques for fully automated exploit chain synthesis, including link replacement and repair, in complex systems. - Advance the analysis and modelling of exploit chains to forecast exploit chain lifecycle in complex software systems that have state-of-the-art defenses. - Demonstrate the capability to reproduce exploit chains in software of interest to transition partners and integrate tools and capabilities into operational contexts.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 increase reflects continued development of exploit chain technologies and additional efforts related to demonstration and transition.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Develop and demonstrate techniques for automated replacement and repair of exploit chains in complex systems. - Automate the analysis of the scale of applicability of the exploit chain across a corpus of software and firmware versions. - Extend the exploit chain model to incorporate and represent the system context.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.6 |

> 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 MSL-04

- [Cyber Security and Resilience Studies and Concepts](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-04/a7) — FY2027 40.5
- [Cyber Operations Studies and Concepts](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-04/a8) — FY2027 39.5
- [Constellation](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-04/a0) — FY2027 25.0
- [Business Process Logic (BPL)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-04/a2) — FY2027 11.8
- Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND²) — FY2027 9.4
- Reclaiming Bus-based Systems During Compromise (Red-C) — FY2027 6.2
- Pipelined Reasoning of Verifiers Enabling Robust Systems (PROVERS) — FY2027 6.1
- Cyber Agents for Security Testing and Learning Environments (CASTLE) — FY2027 6.1
- Hardening Development Toolchains Against Emergent Execution Engines (HARDEN) — FY2027 —
- Signature Management using Operational Knowledge and Environments (SMOKE) — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602025E project MSL-04 (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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