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.
- Develop techniques for reasoning about the circuitry inside devices. - Develop automated operational cyber reasoning to enable decisive cyber maneuver warfare. - Develop an automated exploit development platform. - Develop cyber weapons with provable performance guarantees. - Develop techniques to cause hallucinations in adversary AI agents. - Develop persona systems for use in highly engaged virtual environments. - Develop a synthetic red team that probes adversary cognitive and behavioral vulnerabilities. - Model adversary decision rules to craft paradoxical situations that induce logical paralysis. - Develop high-fidelity emulations of adversary individual and group psychological processes.
The FY 2027 increase reflects studies and concepts initiations including, but not limited to, the advancement of new technologies to support development of automated operational cyber reasoning to enable decisive cyber maneuver warfare, to model adversary decision rules to craft paradoxical situations that induce logical paralysis, and to support development of cyber weapons with provable performance guarantees and techniques to cause hallucinations in adversary AI agents.
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.
- Discover logic flaws in security protocol implementations. - Develop algorithms that identify latent vulnerabilities in complex systems.
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 | 4.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.8 |
This activity is 24% of project AET-03's FY2027 request and 4.5% 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.