What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 673070 of PE 1203040SF. 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.
Continue to expand the development, deployment, tuning, and capability of DCO-S and field to an additional 60 mission area locations (29 Manticore and 31 Kraken product lines) based on operational/user priorities; build, test, and deliver valuable features at a faster pace to meet growing demands of cyber defenders. Continue to scale development and deployment teams to increase emphasis on cyber threat recognition, information sharing, and active response methodologies to combat evolving threats and prepare for inevitable changes to the cyber domain. Augment platform, upgrade databases for all product-line documentation, grow infrastructure support of existing codebase, and operationally accept the DCO-S cloud environment to facilitate support to Joint Cyber Warfare Architecture (JCWA). Achieve multi-year Authority to Operate for the DCO-S Minimum Viable Capability Release (MVCR), and measure performance against the Operational Capability Needs Statement. Continue to develop technical documentation, perform integration activities and tuning support, and finalize plans for product support and sustainment. Increase deployment activities to on-board additional mission systems at a faster pace to ensure complex classified systems are protected sooner. Support cyber exercises, training, and independent testing to help reduce vulnerabilities within existing product lines. Fund efforts to allow independent security researchers to report security exploits, issues, and hardware flaws which increases security posture software solution DCO-S MVCR. Transform the Manticore platform by adopting a modular architecture, enabling the rapid assembly of tailored solutions that meet the precise needs of the end user, and positioning the organization for success in a rapidly changing cyber threat environment. Develop technical documentation, obtain ATO, perform integration and tuning support, and finalize plans for product support and sustainment for space vehicle cyber defense (SVD). Support the integration of SVD products on-board space vehicles, requiring continuous development to meet the mission specific environment as well as adapt to evolving threat environments. Provide on- going systems engineering support. Maintain systems engineering, development infrastructure, and accreditation support to provide internal test and accreditation plans for security hardening and risk assessments to ensure product line software has optimum security features, countermeasures, and safeguards in place. Maintain modern and automated testing methodologies based on industry best practices. FFRDCs and other management services will continue to provide advanced mission expertise through the development of advanced analytics and machine learning to augment the identification of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures and provide Guardians with space-based training while future proofing systems with the latest technology. Conduct integration, testing, and sustainment of classified USSF cyberspace warfare capabilities. Rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in the contested space domain. Activities may include, but are not limited to program office support, studies, technical analysis, experimentation, risk reduction, prototyping, and activities that may leverage commercial, U.S. Government partnership, and international opportunities to respond to existing and emerging adversarial threats with speed and agility.
FY 2027 increase due to additional DCO-S deployments, added responsibility for mission system integration efforts, Space Vehicle Defense pivoting from development to deployment, and integration, testing and sustainment of classified efforts to enable advanced USSF cyberspace warfare operations.
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.
Continue to expand the development, deployment, tuning, and capability of DCO-S and field to an additional 25 mission area locations (14 Manticore and 11 Kraken product lines) based on operational/user priorities; build, test, and deliver valuable features at a faster pace to meet growing demands of cyber defenders. Continue to scale development and deployment teams to increase emphasis on cyber threat recognition, information sharing, and active response methodologies to combat evolving threats and prepare for inevitable changes to the cyber domain. Augment platform, upgrade databases for all product-line documentation, grow infrastructure support of existing codebase, and operationally accept the DCO-S cloud environment to facilitate support to Joint Cyber Warfare Architecture (JCWA). Achieve multi-year Authority to Operate for the DCO-S MVP, measure performance against the Operational Capability Needs Statement, and obtain Operational Acceptance. Continue to develop technical documentation, perform integration activities and tuning support, and finalize plans for product support and sustainment. Increase deployment activities to on-board additional mission systems at a faster pace to ensure complex classified systems are protected sooner. Support cyber exercises and training to help reduce vulnerabilities within existing product lines. Fund efforts to allow independent security researchers to report security exploits, issues, and hardware flaws which increases the chances that bugs are found and reported before malicious attacks occur. Maintain systems engineering, development infrastructure, and accreditation support to provide internal test and accreditation plans for security hardening and risk assessments to ensure product line software has optimum security features, countermeasures, and safeguards in place. Maintain modern and automated testing methodologies based on industry best practices. FFRDCs and other management services will continue to provide mission assurance to identify Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and provide users with space-based training while future proofing systems with the latest technology. Rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in the contested space domain. Activities may include, but are not limited to program office support, studies, technical analysis, experimentation, risk reduction, prototyping, and activities that may leverage commercial, U.S. Government partnership, and international opportunities to respond to existing and emerging adversarial threats with speed and agility.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 101.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 98.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 481.3 |
This activity is 100% of project 673070's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 1203040SF'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 673070
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 program-element page.