Battlespace Knowledge Development and Demonstration

This Project supports the Department of the Air Force's (DAF) strategic objectives by advancing cutting-edge research technologies critical for achieving multi-domain superiority and operational agility across the full spectrum of military operations. Specifically, it enables the DAF and DoW to: (1) develop and implement Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) capabilities, ensuring seamless integration across land, air, space, and cyber domains for effective joint decision making, command, and operational execution; (2) field and sustain assured, resilient, and high-capacity communications and networks, providing enduring support for global, persistent, and survivable military operations—both kinetic and non-kinetic—critical to maintaining a strategic advantage and operational continuity in contested environments; and (3) design and deploy advanced systems to process, fuse, and exploit real-time data from diverse sources, empowering decision-makers with enhanced situational awareness and enabling rapid, data-driven decisions to outpace adversaries. Beginning in FY 2027, this Project will support the development and deployment of advanced cyber capabilities to ensure superiority in both offensive and defensive operations, as well as to maintain resilience in contested cyber environments. This will ensure operational continuity and effectiveness of military forces across all domains, both in peacetime and in conflict. This will include: (i) Cyber offense capabilities - enabling access, stealth, and persistence within adversary networks, while leveraging advanced intelligence collection and non-kinetic weapons to disrupt, degrade, or destroy enemy capabilities, ensuring strategic advantage in both peacetime and conflict scenarios. (ii) Cyber defense capabilities - establishing robust defenses to detect, attribute, and respond to cyberattacks, ensuring the integrity of critical systems, networks, and data, while actively mitigating threats and neutralizing adversary attempts to compromise U.S. cyber infrastructure. (iii) Cyber resilience capabilities - developing systems and protocols for rapid adaptation, recovery, and sustained survivability of critical assets and operations, ensuring the DAF can continue to function effectively even in the face of sophisticated and persistent cyber threats.

This Project supports the Department of the Air Force's (DAF) strategic objectives by advancing cutting-edge research technologies critical for achieving total dominance in cyberspace. The DAF requires the development and deployment of advanced cyber capabilities to ensure superiority in both offensive and defensive operations, as well as to maintain resilience in contested cyber environments. This includes: 1) Cyber offense capabilities - enabling access, stealth, and persistence within adversary networks, while leveraging advanced intelligence collection and non-kinetic weapons to disrupt, degrade, or destroy enemy capabilities, ensuring strategic advantage in both peacetime and conflict scenarios. 2) Cyber defense capabilities - establishing robust defenses to detect, attribute, and respond to cyberattacks, ensuring the integrity of critical systems, networks, and data, while actively mitigating threats and neutralizing adversary attempts to compromise U.S. cyber infrastructure. 3) Cyber resilience - developing systems and protocols for rapid adaptation, recovery, and sustained survivability of critical assets and operations, ensuring the DAF can continue to function effectively even in the face of sophisticated and persistent cyber threats. The efforts in this Project directly support the DAF's and DoW's imperative to secure and maintain dominance in the cyber domain, ensuring the operational continuity and effectiveness of military forces across all domains, both in peacetime and in conflict.