What project 003 buys
Cyber Security Research supports the Department's National Defense Strategy priorities to Defend the U.S. Homeland including America’s skies and borders, and Deterring China in the Indo-Pacific. It does so by developing cyber capabilities that integrate functionally with electromagnetic spectrum operations to increase readiness and deterrence, particularly in priority areas such as USINDOPACOM. This program explores technical and scientific concepts to overcome challenges in the Joint Warfighting Environment with cyber effects and integrated non-kinetic options through applied research for an asymmetric advantage across all domains (maritime, land, air, cyberspace, and space). It applies the Joint Publication (JP) 3-0 principles of Mass, Maneuver, and Unity of Command to achieve specific outcomes with minimal collateral damage and unforeseen consequences for integrated non-kinetic effects development efforts are focused to support the Joint Warfighting Environment through intended cyber effects execution without perturbing the unintended kinetic and non-kinetic entities through disruptive integration of cyberspace operations with electromagnetic spectrum operations (EMSO) and sensing. The program accelerates cyber S&T capability development to directly address INDSG priorities to defend the homeland and deter aggression/prepared to prevail in U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) area of responsibility against China. Adversaries are increasingly leveraging asymmetric tactics in the Joint Warfighting Environment. The Department of War (DoW) needs to evolve its approach to warfare, integrating cyber and non-kinetic effects to maintain a decisive advantage across all domains. The Non-Kinetic Advantage (NKA) project is a collaborative effort aimed at revolutionizing how the Joint Force employs non-kinetic capabilities. By focusing on four key pillars – Protect, Process, Visualize, and Align & Shape – NKA will deliver a decisive advantage in the information battlespace. NKA will enable the Joint Force to conduct faster, more effective operations across all domains, even in contested environments. Will provide Asymmetric Advantage by mastering the information battlespace, NKA will provide a decisive edge against adversaries, deterring aggression and ensuring US dominance.
Project 003 funding, 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. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 16.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 30.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 18.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 19.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 19.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 19.6 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Pivot toward big-bet investments addressing strategic threats to Department of War cyber-EMSO convergence and overmatch: - Strategic EMS and Cyber Dominance enabling blue kill chains while disrupting adversary surveillance and targeting - Seamlessly integrated cyberspace, EMSO, and OIE - Fluidly delivering effects across all domains of…
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