# Project 635329 — Cyber Battlespace Dev & Demo

**Program element:** 0603788F — Battlespace Knowledge Development and Demonstration  
**Project:** 635329  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603788F/635329  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603788F

## Summary

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.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 9.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603788F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyber Offensive and Defensive Technologies | 9.2 | 12.5 | 0.0 | −100% | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Cyber Offensive and Defensive Technologies

**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 detect/track/defeat of swarms to advance interoperability across multiple systems. - Complete integration and transition of multiple Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Lifecycle Management Center (AFLCMC) C-sUAS capabilities. - Commence advanced development and demonstration for methods and systems to automate the monitoring and characterization of geographic regions of the RF spectrum, focusing on designing algorithms for automated spectrum characterization.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603788F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603788F project 635329 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603788F")`.

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