RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Command, Control AND Communications Systems

PE 0603760E·Defense-Wide·Approp. 0400 — RDT&E·BA3 — Advanced Technology Development
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
Defense-Wide · RDT&E
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Defense-Wide requests $0.0M in FY2027.

FY2027 Request
$0.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$591.0M
Prior year

Roll-up of 3 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.

For fiscal year 2027, Defense-Wide agencies are requesting $0.0M for Command, Control AND Communications Systems under RDT&E program element 0603760E, against nothing enacted in FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, 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.

1503004506000591.0FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED0.0FY27REQUEST0.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual591.0
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request0.0
FY2028Outyear0.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 3 — Advanced Technology Development.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Current
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Later
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

3 projects roll up into PE 0603760E

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year.

Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

The efforts described in this Program Element (PE) address the Advanced Technology Development associated with the Command, Control and Communications Systems Program focused on demonstrating and evaluating advanced information systems research and development concepts. The Information Integration Systems project develops and demonstrates technologies that will provide effective communications to U.S. forces. The success of military operations depends on timely, reliable, secure, and synchronized dissemination of command and control and relevant situational awareness information to every military echelon.

Project CCC-02, CCC-05, CCC-06 — INFORMATION INTEGRATION SYSTEMS
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FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0603760E (President's Budget PB2027).
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FY2027 Request
$0.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$51.6M
Prior year

INFORMATION INTEGRATION SYSTEMS — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603760E. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.

Project CCC-02 — INFORMATION INTEGRATION SYSTEMS — requests $0.0M in FY2027.

Funding trajectory

Project CCC-02 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.

2550051.6FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED0.0FY27REQUEST0.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual51.6
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request0.0
FY2028Outyear0.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
Inside the project

5 accomplishments / planned programs

The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.

Space domain Wide Area Tracking & Characterization (Space-WATCH)
FY2025 actual$18.0M
FY2026 enacted
FY2027 request

FY2025 accomplishments - Collected on-orbit data. - Conducted data fusion testing with live data. - Updated data fusion algorithms. - Tested and evaluated marketplace with live data. - Evaluated marketplace incentives for data-as-a-service. - Transitioned data to the DoW.

Generating Communications Channels to Operate (GeCCO)
FY2025 actual$15.8M
FY2026 enacted
FY2027 request

FY2025 accomplishments - Began development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) with operational partners. - Tested integrated network services and network architecture with transition partners in a controlled field environment. - Used framework to develop and deploy advanced network services. - Conducted experiments with services developed by third parties.

Strategic Chaos Engine for Planning, Tactics, Experimentation and Resiliency (SCEPTER)
FY2025 actual$9.2M
FY2026 enacted
FY2027 request

FY2025 accomplishments - Refined performance of machine-derived plans against military scenarios. - Demonstrated advanced performance of updated machine-derived plans against military scenarios. - Transitioned program to Armed Forces warfighter planning organizations.

Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN)
FY2025 actual$5.7M
FY2026 enacted
FY2027 request

FY2025 accomplishments - Collaborated with transition partners to develop cross-constellation surge capacity scenarios.

Mission Integrated Network Control (MINC)
FY2025 actual$2.9M
FY2026 enacted
FY2027 request

FY2025 accomplishments - Demonstrated MINC capabilities and value in a relevant field exercise. - Collaborated with operational partners and developed a clear path to accreditation of the MINC solution. - Stood up a Communications, Command, and Control Product Center (C3PC) as a common Government off-the-shelf (GOTS) repository for C3-related efforts enabling Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2).

Project detail

What project CCC-02 buys

The Information Integration Systems project develops and demonstrates technologies that will provide effective communications to U.S. forces. The success of military operations depends on timely, reliable, secure, and synchronized dissemination of command and control and relevant situational awareness information to every military echelon. While wired communications and networks are fairly well developed, providing assured high-bandwidth mobile wireless capabilities that match or exceed commercial wired infrastructure is needed to meet the demands of military users. Approaches to this goal include developing technologies in these areas: - High-Capacity Links technologies - enables greater back-haul capability. - Advanced Networking technologies - supports resilience, adaptability, scalability, and composable systems to enable adaptive effects webs. - Low Probability of Detection and Anti-Jam (LPD/AJ) technologies - provides assured communications in very high-threat environments. - Novel Radio Frequency and Spectral Sensing (RF/SS) - supports efficient spectrum management in congested environments and detection of electromagnetic threats. Beginning in FY 2026, efforts in this Project will be funded in PE 0603469E, Project AET-01.

FY2027 Request
$0.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$82.8M
Prior year

CYBER SYSTEMS — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603760E. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.

Project CCC-05 — CYBER SYSTEMS — requests $0.0M in FY2027.

Funding trajectory

Project CCC-05 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.

255075082.8FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED0.0FY27REQUEST0.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual82.8
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request0.0
FY2028Outyear0.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
Inside the project

4 accomplishments / planned programs

The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.

Carcosa
FY2025 actual$40.0M
FY2026 enacted
FY2027 request

FY2025 accomplishments - Iteratively improved the user interface to minimize cognitive burden on tactical cyber operators. - Developed an improved form factor for optimized integration with existing equipment. - Improved the reliability of prototype technology. - Evaluated technologies on realistic use cases and scenarios. - Demonstrated technologies to military stakeholders and potential transition partners. - Developed technologies for countering adversary artificial intelligence-enabled detection systems.

Constellation
FY2025 actual$28.0M
FY2026 enacted
FY2027 request

FY2025 accomplishments - Integrated and expanded cyber technologies into an automated target discovery and attack surface enumeration framework and demonstrated the target acquisition and continuous monitoring system prototype. - Integrated and expanded cyber technologies that provide enhanced network monitoring and automated threat hunting to improve blue space visibility, identify unknown threats, and initiate hunt and clear activities. - Leveraged technologies that established a multi-tenant compute, storage, and networking environment to support DevSecOps methodologies and tools. - Coordinated with cyber operators from the Commands and Services to prioritize cyber technologies and capabilities, accelerate…

Resilient Software Systems Capstones (RSS Capstones)
FY2025 actual$10.0M
FY2026 enacted
FY2027 request

FY2025 accomplishments - Coordinated with Service program offices to identify suitable software systems development and sustainment demonstrations. - Formulated granular sustainment demonstrations such as rapid patching of known cyber vulnerabilities and other critical modifications and improvement for legacy software systems. - Hardened and operationalized formal methods-based tools and initiated approval process for use on DoW platforms.

Mechanical Reckoning
FY2025 actual$4.8M
FY2026 enacted
FY2027 request

FY2025 accomplishments - Automated analytics that process raw sensor data. - Enhanced portability of sensors. - Conducted site surveys with service partners for force protection.

Project detail

What project CCC-05 buys

The Cyber Systems project develops, implements, and demonstrates techniques, tools, and frameworks for the full range of cyber operations. Cyber is now ubiquitous to warfighting. For non-kinetic operations in advance of lethal conflict, cyber can be a powerful enabler of operations that limit adversary options and deter adversary aggression. For kinetic operations during lethal conflict, cyber can be a force multiplier and provide an asymmetric advantage. The Cyber Systems project aims to create operational prototypes based on the cyber technology developed in applied research programs, in the private sector, and in academia. The utility of the operational prototypes that are developed in this project will be assessed, and improvements made, based on demonstrations and evaluations conducted in collaboration with warfighters, acquisition programs, and combatant commands. Beginning in FY 2026, efforts in this Project will be funded in PE 0603469E, Project AET-03.

FY2027 Request
$0.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$456.7M
Prior year

COMMAND, CONTROL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603760E. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.

Project CCC-06 — COMMAND, CONTROL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS — requests $0.0M in FY2027.

Funding trajectory

Project CCC-06 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.

1503004500456.7FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED0.0FY27REQUEST0.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual456.7
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request0.0
FY2028Outyear0.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
Project detail

What project CCC-06 buys

This project funds classified DARPA programs that are reported in accordance with the SAP Annual Report to Congress. Beginning in FY 2026, efforts in this Project will be funded in PE 0603467E, Project DAT-06.