What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 679 of PE 0608140D8Z. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
Funding will maintain core compute infrastructure, data, tooling, service desk, and engineering to support a growing userbase including existing applications, data sources, customers, and capabilities. CDAO will continue to invest in driving a scalable self-service architecture. For FY 2027 the primary focus of the War Data Platform is to modernize the data integration layer, implement Zero Trust Architecture and SIPR/JWICS infrastructure modernization deployment.
IThe FY 2027 budget request includes an increase to support the War Data Platform, formerly Advana, driven by increased usage and license growth, as well as expanded cloud services across NIPRNet, SIPRNet, and JWICs. Within this overall increase, an additional $3 million invests in the Next Generation Technology / Autonomy – War Data Platform - Zero Trust Implementation effort, enabling comprehensive Zero Trust security measures for the War Data Platform operating on the nation's classified network, SIPRNet and JWICs. In an era of persistent cyber threats from sophisticated state-level adversaries, traditional network perimeter security is no longer sufficient to protect our most sensitive national security data. This investment will directly fund the deployment of advanced Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, including procuring and integrating new software modules for continuous identity verification, the implementation of micro-segmentation capabilities through network infrastructure configuration and policy enforcement point deployment, and the integration of continuous monitoring and threat detection tools by acquiring specialized analytics platforms and security orchestration tools. By implementing these measures, the CDAO mitigates the risk of unauthorized access and lateral movement by attackers, thereby protecting our classified data, ensuring the integrity of our analytical capabilities, and modernizing our defensive posture to guarantee a more secure, resilient network for the warfighter.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Funding is maintaining core compute infrastructure, data, tooling, service desk, and engineering to support a growing userbase including sustainment of existing applications, data sources, customers, and capabilities. CDAO will continue to invest in driving a scalable self-service architecture. FY 2026 funding is supporting the follow-on War Data Platform acquisition and contracting strategy, which is diversifying the vendor base while procuring and integrating best of breed commercial capabilities.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 229.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 313.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 679's FY2027 request and 65% of PE 0608140D8Z's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
1 activity in project 679
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.