What project 3244 buys
This effort funds two continuing cybersecurity programs; Situational Awareness Boundary Enforcement and Response (SABER) and a maturing Cybersecurity project, High Availability Virtual Environment (HAVEN), and USS SECURE. SABER is the research, design, development, testing, and installation of Cybersecurity solutions for installed integrated computer networks to include shipboard Hull Mechanical and Electrical (HM&E), Navigation Systems, Combat Systems, Fire Control, Sonar, Radar, Communications, and other shipboard computerized control systems for all afloat U.S. Navy platforms. SABER provides network boundary defense and situational awareness to protect and detect against external and internal cybersecurity-threats. HAVEN is a secure operating environment that provides a resilient and redundant infrastructure platform for rapid software deployment and system restoration. HAVEN provides the secure operating environment for SABER and a secure hosting environment. HAVEN has been considered a part of SABER and continued HAVEN development has led the Navy to understand that this capability may have use beyond hosting SABER. USS SECURE is a cybersecurity Test & Evaluation capability for operationally representative distributed system of-systems testing with scalable events from individual systems to enclave, platform, and strike group levels. USS SECURE is applicable to systems across Navy SYSCOMS and DoD Services. This effort also funds NAVSEA Red Team starting in FY 2027, one of thirteen DoD Cyber Red Teams (DCRT) authorized to execute cyber missions on the Department of Defense Information Network (DoDIN), the only with authorization to operate on Navy weapons systems. Provides the capability to research, identify, validate, and execute missions to determine nation-state exploitable (Tier IV) cyber vulnerabilities in deployed and next-generation warfighting platforms. Improves cyber readiness of Naval Surface and Sub Surface Forces by developing and demonstrating adversarial emulated TTPs causing Fleet operational mission impact within a cyber-contested environment. This funding transitions Red Team testing from system specific events to on DODIN systems of systems events that support operational mission risk analysis.
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Project 3244 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 36.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 9.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 9.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 9.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 7.9 |
3 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 1 of them describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
In FY 2027, The USS SECURE program plans to execute four CRAs which includes IWS 80 for CP6, IWS 80 for SSDS Baseline (BL)12, PMA-280 for Tomahawk, and IWS 1 for Aegis BL 7/9/10, to include conducting a C4I Cyber Table-Top (CTT) for PMS 377 and supporting functional testing of CANES for IWS 1. The USS SECURE program will continue…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work In FY 2027 NAVSEA Red Team will plan and execute comprehensive cyber assessments focused on identifying and validating Tier IV nation-state exploitable cyber vulnerabilities across both current and next-generation Naval warfighting platforms, encompassing both surface and subsurface forces. The program will transition from isolated system specific testing to comprehensive, on DODIN, systems-of-systems evaluations on real-world operational environments. Red Team operations will demonstrate adversarial emulated Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) specifically designed to assess Fleet readiness within cyber-contested operational scenarios that mirror potential mission impacts, while…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase of $2.986M establishes baseline funding for the operation of the NAVSEA Red Team to support research System Under Test (SUT), develop rules of engagement, configure infrastructure, research adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures. Perform open-source research, code development and integration support of exploit Proof of Concepts (PoC) used against the SUT. Provide the "hackers" to test the SUT for vulnerabilities that can be exploited and cause mission impact. Analyze the post execution data to provide the exploitable vulnerabilities objective quality evidence in a report format. Also includes artificial intelligence integration and augmentation into red team operations.
FY2027 planned work SABER will continue research, development, testing, and evaluation necessary to support upcoming ship installs to additional platforms and pace the emerging Cyber threat. SABER will continue development of automation technologies for software qualification as well as start the employment of those automation technologies to accelerate capability delivery, per SECNAV direction to accelerate fielding. Saber will continue developing network enumeration technology tools, additional shipboard controllers, and shipboard enumeration events as part of pre-deployment cyber readiness fleet upgrade events in support of the U.S. Navy's Pinnacle 27 objectives. SABER will continue investigation of…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The FY26 budget was zeroed out by congressional action. The FY27 budget value for SABER support returns to expected appropriated value due to reconciliation incongruence.