What project 088 buys
The National Cyber Range Complex (NCRC) is composed of cyber ranges and a secure distributed network infrastructure to service the cyber range user community. The NCRC currently consists of five functional cyber ranges, including the National Cyber Range in Florida as well as four Regional Service Delivery Points (RSDP) located in Hawaii, Alabama, Maryland, and Massachusetts. To enhance the Department’s cyber range test and training capability and capacity, the NCRC is being expanded with additional cyber ranges co-located with key Service organizations at Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic (NIWC LANT), SC; Naval Air Station Patuxent River (NAS Pax River), MD; and 46th Test Wing Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), FL to support an increase of cyber testing of Blue systems as well as training of cyber warfighters. The JMETC Multiple Independent Level of Security (MILS) Network (JMN) currently links sites across the Department, industry, and academia, providing secure access between cyber ranges, laboratories, and facilities. Both the cyber ranges and the network infrastructure are accredited to support multiple levels of security classifications, specifically configured to meet particular cyber event requirements. The NCRC investments have been aligned to support the National Defense Strategy in improving cyber defense, cyber resilience, cyber lethality, and the continued integration of cyber capabilities into the full spectrum of military operations. The NCRC conducts cyberspace test and training events for the full spectrum of Department customers including research, development, acquisition, testing, training and operational Cyber Mission Forces (CMF). The NCRC executes wide variety of event types including science and technology (S&T) demonstrations, developmental test and evaluation (DT&E), operational test and evaluation (OT&E), security controls assessments, capability assessments, cyberspace operations training, development and refinement of cyberspace tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP), cyber forensics/malware analysis) and cyberspace operations mission rehearsal. The NCRC enables acquisition programs to conduct cybersecurity test and evaluation in an operationally representative cyberspace environment enabling identification, validation and mitigation of vulnerabilities.
Project 088 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 | 64.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 63.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 71.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 73.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 74.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 76.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 77.7 |
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.
In FY 2027, the NCRC will continue to expand capability and capacity to address the growing demand for cybersecurity test, training, experimentation, and mission rehearsal. Highlights include: - Continue to conduct and support cyber test and training events at the cyber range located in Orlando, FL; Naval Information Warfare Center…
Read the FY2027 plan →