RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Cyber Battlespace Dev & Demo

FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
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Project 635329 — Cyber Battlespace Dev & Demo requests $0.0M in FY2027, 0.0% of the $31.9M requested for program element 0603788F, down 100% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$12.5M
▲ 35% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$9.2M
Prior year
Project detail

What project 635329 buys

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.

Funding trajectory

Project 635329 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.

09.2FY25ACTUAL12.5FY26ENACTED0.0FY27REQUEST0.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual9.2
FY2026Enacted12.5
FY2027Request0.0
FY2028Outyear0.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
Inside the project

1 accomplishment / planned program

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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.

Cyber Offensive and Defensive Technologies▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$9.2M
FY2026 enacted$12.5M
FY2027 request$0.0M

FY2027 planned work In FY 2027, PE 0603788F, Battlespace Knowledge Development and Demonstration, Project 635329, Cyber Battlespace Dev & Demo efforts were transferred to PE 0603788F, Battlespace Knowledge Development and Demonstration, Project 635321, C4I and Cyber Battlespace Development & Demonstration.

FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding decreased by 12.492 million due to the transfer of the "Cyber Offensive and Defensive Technologies" effort and associated funding within this Program Element to Project 635321, C4I and Cyber Battlespace Development & Demonstration.

FY2026 plans — current year - Continue development of 5G cyber operations tool suite for integration into DAF cyber operations platforms, focusing on developing and demonstrating modular, scalable framework. - Continue 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 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…