What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 003 of PE 0602668D8Z. 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.
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 operation in all phases of warfare Non-Kinetic deterrence and de-escalation options
The FY 2026 President’s Budget submission did not include FY 2027 funding projections. Therefore, no comparison between budget positions is available for FY 2027.
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.
Non-Kinetic Effects Gap Analysis and Investment Plan. This activity will apply the FY 2025 NKE Decision Support Framework in a fully-informed manner across the DoW NKE investments and identify priority gaps for investment and acceleration of capability. Investments to address priority gaps will complement Service Cyber investment lines and seek to focus them to meet and influence early concepts. Rapid Prototyping and Maturation of Non-traditional At-scale Cyber Engagement. Leverage FY 2025 design and prototyping efforts to rapidly accelerate development, integration, and capability assessment to hold non-traditional targets persistently at risk at strategic levels of engagement. Conduct initial planning of demonstration, targeted for late FY 2026.
- Augmented Cognition: Develop capabilities that enhance USCYBERCOM and Service Cyber Components' ability to increase the scale and scale of human operators in comprehending, planning executing, and assessing operations. - Dependable Systems and Networks: Develop secure hardware and software co-design that will enable development of provably secure systems at scale, design, and architecture. Cyber-physical digital-twins systems can be used to develop secure hardware/software co-design standards with full stack visibility enabled by supply chain analysis. - Dominant Cyber Operations: Develop cyber warfighting concepts and demonstrable capabilities that integrate with electromagnetic warfare, intelligence, and kinetic operational planning and execution. Demonstrate concepts integrated within a cyber-flag or red-flag level exercise to illustrate potential/impact. - Cyber Foundations: Explore formal methods for rigorous mathematical specification and verification of cyber hardware and software systems. Industrial scale formal methods and related techniques have the potential for greatly reducing the uncertainty in the software used in military systems. - Manipulate spatial beam qualities to demonstrate laser system propagation in outdoor atmospheric environments to achieve desired effects on sensors.
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 | 16.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.6 |
This activity is 100% of project 003's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0602668D8Z'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 003
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.