# Cyber Offensive and Defensive Technologies

**R-2A activity** of project 635321 — C4I and Cyber Battlespace Development & Demonstration  
**Program element:** 0603788F — Battlespace Knowledge Development and Demonstration  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603788F/635321/a5  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603788F/635321

> **NEW START.** $15.4M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $15.4M in FY2027, 48% of project 635321 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. 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.** - Complete development of 5G cyber operations tool suite for integration into DAF cyber operations platforms, focusing on developing and demonstrating modular, scalable framework. - Complete development of 5G exploitation tools for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and for Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) capabilities, focusing on developing and demonstrating 5G signal testbeds and associated algorithms for identified signal types. - Continue the development of a counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) open architecture specification to enable interoperability between disparate protection systems, focusing on the development and standardization of RF, autonomy & data fusion, physical response, and detect/track/defeat of swarms to advance interoperability across multiple systems. - Continue advanced development and demonstration for methods and systems to automate the monitoring and characterization of geographic regions of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum, focusing on designing algorithms for automated spectrum characterization.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 funding increased by 15.358 million due to the transfer of the "Cyber Offensive and Defensive Technologies" effort and associated funding within this Program Element, Project 635329, Cyber Battlespace Dev & Demo to Project 635321, C4I and Cyber Battlespace Development & Demonstration. However, the overall funding for the "Cyber Offensive and Defensive Technologies" effort increased from FY 2026 by 2.700 million due to increased investments in automated spectrum characterization and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) open architecture design and development.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** In FY 2025 and FY 2026, the "Cyber Offensive and Defensive Technologies" effort and funding were reported in PE 0603788F, Battlespace Knowledge Development and Demonstration, Project 635329, Cyber Battlespace Dev & Demo. FY 2025 funding was $9.247 million and FY 2026 funding is $12.657 million.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.4 |

> 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 635321

- Assured Communications & Networks — FY2027 7.1
- Multi-Domain Sensemaking — FY2027 5.3
- Combined Joint All-Domain Command & Control — FY2027 4.2
- Data to Decisions — FY2027 0.0
- Game Changing Computing Power — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603788F project 635321 (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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