What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project AET-03 of PE 0603469E. 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.
- Refine and integrate cyber operational prototypes with established DoW programs and systems to create a cohesive, robust, and effective cyber warfighting architecture. - Develop, test, evaluate, and operationalize cyber technologies, prototypes, and capabilities in collaboration with DoW cyber stakeholders. - Coordinate with U.S. cyber operators to formulate cyber operations challenges as problems that research programs can address through new projects/prototypes. - Coordinate with cyber acquisition offices to expand pipelined development of cyber operational prototypes using DevSecOps and other collaborative development processes and through streamlined acquisition, assessment, approval, and deployment processes.
The FY 2027 increase reflects the expansion of prototyping activities.
FY2026: the year under way
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.
- Refine and integrate cyber operational prototypes with established DoW programs and systems to create a cohesive, robust, and effective cyber warfighting architecture. - Develop, test, evaluate, and operationalize cyber technologies, prototypes, and capabilities in collaboration with DoW cyber stakeholders. - Coordinate with U.S. cyber operators to formulate cyber operations challenges as problems that research programs can address through new projects/prototypes. - Coordinate with cyber acquisition offices to expand pipelined development of cyber operational prototypes using DevSecOps and other collaborative development processes and through streamlined acquisition, assessment, approval, and deployment processes.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 25.0 |
This activity is 41% of project AET-03's FY2027 request and 7.6% of PE 0603469E'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.
5 activities in project AET-03
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.