What project 642812 buys
The Acquisition/System Security Engineering (SSE) activity encompasses several continuous efforts to support the Department of the Air Force (DAF) and Department of War acquisition community. First, it produces and distributes standard system security engineering and acquisition security processes, policies, and contracting language to ensure cyber requirements are properly addressed in fielded and emerging weapon systems. Second, it bolsters intelligence collection and intelligence community engagement to provide consistent and current knowledge of cyber threats to enable the acquisition community to calculate weapon system risks. Third, it develops and hones personnel cyber resiliency training, manning strategies, and integrates Cyber Focus Teams into Program Acquisition Executive (PAE) Offices to bridge the lack of cyber acquisition expertise. Fourth, it explores and evaluates the DAF's dynamic cyber landscape to uncover vulnerabilities and prioritize cyber techniques, products, and technologies for further development and prototyping to counter evolving threats. Fifth, it resources a DAF-unique cyber engineering benchtop facility exploring, assessing, and mitigating navigation, communication, and electronic warfare vulnerabilities. Sixth, it develops software to enable digital engineering transformation of risk identification and tracking for weapon systems. Seventh, it enables the Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapon Systems (CROWS) to research, publish, and deliver government-owned guidance, roadmaps, and references to enable program offices and industry partners to effectively implement and adapt DAF strategic cyber requirements (example: Zero Trust and Defensive Cyber Operations) to weapon systems. The centralized and consolidated nature of the CROWS saves the acquisition community millions annually by eliminating the need for each weapon system program and industry partner to fund individual cyber technical exploration efforts. Eighth, the Mitigations activity enables the Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapon Systems (CROWS) to be the DAF's focal point for enterprise cyber mitigations to critical cyber vulnerabilities for fielded weapon systems, subsystems, and support systems.
- Product Development
- Support
- Management Services
Project 642812 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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 17.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 39.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 44.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 43.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 51.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 51.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 52.3 |
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. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Continue intelligence community partnerships and dedicated agency intel resources to improve cyber threat knowledge of Department of the Air Force (DAF) weapon systems. - Continue to build and host educational learning paths to grow weapon system cyber experts through functional knowledge (program managers, engineers, logisticians…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 642812
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.