# Network / System Certification and Accreditation (C&A)

**R-2A activity** of project MC11 — Cyber Operations  
**Program element:** 0603884C — Ballistic Missile Defense Sensors  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603884C/MC11/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603884C/MC11

## Summary

This activity requests $21.7M in FY2027, 100% of project MC11, up 19% on FY2026. 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.** - Ensure compliance with cyber security mandates to maintain continued authorization to operate. - Assess, implement, document, and validate cybersecurity control families for representative systems comprising computing and logic bearing components to support the Development, Test, Training, and Operational Systems.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** - Increase provides for increased testing to ensure cybersecurity compliance.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Initiate tier 3 / local control center enhanced cybersecurity data aggregation and analysis capability through deployment of industry standard toolset to improve trend analysis and identification of cross-portfolio threats. - Execution of six (6) developmental cybersecurity test events and six (6) operational cybersecurity test events supporting LRDR, AN/TPY-2, and SBX in order to assess the cyber survivability of Ground Sensors systems in a cyber-contested environment.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 18.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 21.7 |

> 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.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603884C project MC11 (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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