# Project 642812 — Acquisition/System Security Engineering

**Program element:** 0604414F — Cyber Resiliency of Weapon Systems-ACS  
**Project:** 642812  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604414F/642812  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604414F

## Summary

Project 642812 — Acquisition/System Security Engineering requests $44.4M in FY2027, 100% of the $44.4M requested for program element 0604414F, up 12% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. ARS is the largest named R-3 performer at $3.5M, 7.9% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604414F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Support; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| ARS | 3.5 | 7.9% |
| Carnegie Mellon Univ | 1.1 | 2.5% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acquisition/System Security Engineering | 17.8 | 39.7 | 44.4 | +12% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604414F/642812/a0) |

> 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.

### Acquisition/System Security Engineering

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604414F/642812/a0

## 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/0604414F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604414F project 642812 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604414F")`.

*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*