# Joint Acquisition Protection Exploitation Cell (JAPEC)

**R-2A activity** of project 139 — Joint Acquisition Protection Exploitation Cell (JAPEC)  
**Program element:** 0605797D8Z — Maintaining Technology Advantage  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 6  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605797D8Z/139/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605797D8Z/139

## Summary

This activity requests $14.3M in FY2027, 100% of project 139, up 11% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Continue driving towards consistent technology protection guidance and actions across the DoW enterprise by integrating, synchronizing, and deconflicting activities across the Department. Fund pilot programs to explore new concepts and capabilities in support of Department-wide protection activities. Focus on intellectual property protection activities, War industrial base threat assessment improvements, holistic horizontal program protection, and critical program information identification and protection. - Continue to mature the CTA protection lines of effort involving transactions subject to CFIUS and outbound investment regulations, export license applications, intellectual property, and domestic mergers and acquisitions, through analytic products to illuminate trends (such as among non-notified transactions in critical technology that may merit the attention of CFIUS), at a rate of hundreds of transactions per year spanning all the CTAs, enhanced with business intelligence and AI/ML capabilities. - Support and inform the NSC and DoW stakeholders when they are formulating and implementing the administration’s national and international policies to appropriately protect technology. - Leverage AI capabilities to identify new and emerging technologies warranting focused protection - Improve FY19 NDAA Section 1286 List entity nomination process.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase of $1.387 million between FY 2026 and FY 2027 reflects the increasing demand for subject matter expertise and complementary capabilities offered by business intelligence and AI/ML to illuminate trends in this rapidly changing space. We will leverage these capabilities to identify new and emerging technologies that are being targeted and to improve the nomination process to more frequently update the FY 2019 NDAA Section 1286 List. The increase also supports increased prioritization of non-traditional and classified protection mechanisms.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Continue driving towards consistent technology protection guidance and actions across the DoW enterprise by integrating, synchronizing, and deconflicting activities across the Department. Fund pilot programs to explore new concepts and capabilities in support of Department-wide protection activities. Focus on intellectual property protection activities, War industrial base threat assessment improvements, holistic horizontal program protection, and critical program information identification and protection. - Continue to mature the Critical Technology Area (CTA) protection lines of effort involving transactions subject to CFIUS and outbound investment regulations, export license applications, intellectual property, and domestic mergers and acquisitions, through analytic products to illuminate trends (such as among non-notified transactions in critical technology that may merit the attention of CFIUS), at a rate of hundreds of transactions per year spanning all CTAs, enhanced with business intelligence and AI/ML capabilities. - Support and inform the NSC and DoW stakeholders when they are formulating and implementing the administration’s national and international policies to appropriately protect technology.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** FY 2025 Plans: - Develop consistent technology protection guidance and actions across the DoD enterprise by integrating, synchronizing, and deconflicting current and future technology protection guidance and actions applied to technologies supporting DoD military capability. - Assess and improve the implementation of CTA protection lines of effort involving transactions subject to CFIUS, export license applications, and antitrust considerations, such as through new analytic products to illuminate trends among non-notified transactions that may merit the attention of CFIUS. - Support and inform the NSC and DoD stakeholders when they are making and implementing national and international policy to appropriately protect technology. - Execute new investment risk authorities as required by statute or executive order, to include support in drafting implementing regulations. - Work with DoD and interagency partners to scope export controls to protect emerging and foundational technology and to implement the 2025 America First Trade Policy and 2025 America First Investment Policy.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 12.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.3 |

> 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 0605797D8Z project 139 (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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