# Acquisition/System Security Engineering

**R-2A activity** of project 642812 — Acquisition/System Security Engineering  
**Program element:** 0604414F — Cyber Resiliency of Weapon Systems-ACS  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604414F/642812/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604414F/642812

## Summary

This activity requests $44.4M in FY2027, 100% of project 642812, up 12% 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.** - 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, etc.) and information technology cross training. - Expand development and functionality of acquisition digital materiel management (DMM) tools for weapon system cyber vulnerability assessments and program document artifact generation. - Increase investment in the cyber engineering benchtop facility and increase projects to identify and mitigate navigation, communication, and electronic warfare cyber vulnerabilities. - Continue and expand support for TSN CoE to perform hardware and software assurance in support of weapon system program protection plans. - Continue managing and analyzing data from annual FY21 NDAA 1712 Strategic Cybersecurity Program (SCP) and FY24 NDAA 1502 cyber data call and to understand the DAF's cyber vulnerability and mitigation landscape and inform SECAF investment priorities. - Continue to build and refine weapon system acquisition implementation strategies, guidance, and roadmaps for major cyber policies (ex. Zero Trust and Defensive Cyber Operations). - Continue to discover, analyze, and coordinate information sharing of mission risk and risk discovery activities for DAF weapon systems. - Continue to research, develop, prototype, and demonstrate transition-ready mitigations on fielded weapon systems, subsystems, and support systems in realistic, high-fidelity environments to known cyber vulnerabilities aligned with program office plan of action and milestones (POA&Ms) and DAF cyber vulnerability/mitigation data calls.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by $4.717 million due to the realignment of project 642834, Mitigations. This funding will still be used to continue to research, develop, prototype, and demonstrate transition-ready mitigations on fielded weapon systems, subsystems, and support systems in realistic, high-fidelity environments to known cyber vulnerabilities aligned with program office plan of action and milestones (POA&Ms) and DAF cyber vulnerability/mitigation data calls.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - 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, etc.) and information technology cross training. - Expand development and functionality of acquisition digital materiel management (DMM) tools for weapon system cyber vulnerability assessments and program document artifact generation. - Increase investment in the cyber engineering benchtop facility and increase projects to identify and mitigate navigation, communication, and electronic warfare cyber vulnerabilities. - Continue and expand support for TSN CoE to perform hardware and software assurance in support of weapon system program protection plans. - Continue managing and analyzing data from annual FY21 NDAA 1712 Strategic Cybersecurity Program (SCP) and FY24 NDAA 1502 cyber data call and to understand the DAF's cyber vulnerability and mitigation landscape and inform SECAF investment priorities. - Continue to build and refine weapon system acquisition implementation strategies, guidance, and roadmaps for major cyber policies (ex. Zero Trust and Defensive Cyber Operations). - Continue to discover, analyze, and coordinate information sharing of mission risk and risk discovery activities for DAF weapon systems.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 17.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 39.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 44.4 |

> 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 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604414F project 642812 (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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