RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Cyber Operations

FY2027 Request
$67.1M
▲ 158% vs FY2026
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Project MC08 — Cyber Operations requests $67.1M in FY2027, 4.9% of the $1.36B requested for program element 0603882C, up 158% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request. Northrop Grumman is the largest named R-3 performer at $46.1M, 69% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

MarketCyber, C2 & Networks (programs)

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FY2027 Request
$67.1M
▲ 158% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$26.0M
▲ 16% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$22.5M
Prior year
Project detail

What project MC08 buys

The GMD Cyber Operations project provides cybersecurity and cyber resiliency to maintain and operate all mission and mission support systems. The GMD systems must maintain Network and System Certification and Accreditation for operation on all GMD networks and nodes. Cybersecurity and Cyber Resiliency efforts harden the GMD system against a cyber-attack and reduces system vulnerabilities. The strategy implements cybersecurity and cyber resiliency systems throughout the lifecycle to flow requirements to the Ground Based Interceptor, Next Generation Interceptor, and GMD Weapon System to influence system development. In addition, Cybersecurity and Cyber Resiliency efforts include developmental cyber testing and assessments to reduce cyber vulnerabilities prior to fielding.

R-3 lines of work
  • Product Development
  • Support
  • Test and Evaluation
  • Management Services
Funding trajectory

Project MC08 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.

255075022.5FY25ACTUAL26.0FY26ENACTED67.1FY27REQUEST52.8FY2824.9FY2925.4FY3082.9FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual22.5
FY2026Enacted26.0
FY2027Request67.1
FY2028Outyear52.8
FY2029Outyear24.9
FY2030Outyear25.4
FY2031Outyear82.9
Inside the project

2 accomplishments / planned programs

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 Security and Cyber Resiliency▲ 301%
FY2025 actual$14.0M
FY2026 enacted$13.9M
FY2027 request$55.8M

FY2027 planned work - Provide hardware tech refresh, training, and management to ensure protection of Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) networks and Department of War (DoW) system compliance.

FY2026 to FY2027 change - Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides for support of hardware tech refresh, training, and management.

Network / System Certification and Accreditation (C&A)▼ 7%
FY2025 actual$8.5M
FY2026 enacted$12.1M
FY2027 request$11.3M

The exhibit describes this work once, for project MC08 as a whole, rather than per activity. Read the project justification →

Who's building it

Named performers on project MC08

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

Northrop Grumman
$46.1M · 69%
Boeing
$7.5M · 11%
Booz Allen
$1.8M · 2.6%
JACOBS
$1.4M · 2.1%