# OUSW(R&E) Cyber Technologies

**R-2A activity** of project 003 — Cyber Applied Research  
**Program element:** 0602668D8Z — Cyber Security Research  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602668D8Z/003/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602668D8Z/003

## Summary

This activity requests $18.6M in FY2027, 100% of project 003, up 5.8% 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.** 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

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** 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.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** 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.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** - 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 16.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.6 |

> 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.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602668D8Z project 003 (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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