# Constellation

**R-2A activity** of project AET-03 — ADVANCED CYBER SYSTEMS  
**Program element:** 0603469E — Advanced Enabling Technologies  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603469E/AET-03/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603469E/AET-03

## Summary

This activity requests $25.0M in FY2027, 41% of project AET-03, up 25% 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.** - 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 increase reflects the expansion of prototyping activities.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 25.0 |

> 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 AET-03

- [Advanced Cyber Security Studies and Concepts](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603469E/AET-03/a1) — FY2027 16.1
- [Advanced Cyber Operations Studies and Concepts](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603469E/AET-03/a2) — FY2027 14.8
- Resilient Software Systems Capstones (RSS Capstones) — FY2027 5.4
- Carcosa — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603469E project AET-03 (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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