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Defense Operations Security Initiative (DOSI)

OSDRDT&EPartial Reconciliation0203345D8Z
What it is
Defense Operations Security Initiative (DOSI) (0203345D8Z) is an OSD research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 1 project.
What changed
-$658.0K FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$3.03MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$3.15MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$2.49MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
-$658.0KR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.FY24: $3.03MFY25: $3.15MFY26: $2.49MFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$3.03M
FY25$3.15M
FY26$2.49M

All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026

Decade view — P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
12 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2015–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
12 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2015–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2015 actuals — PB2017 editionFY2016 actuals — PB2018 editionFY2017 actuals — PB2019 editionFY2018 actuals — PB2020 editionFY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2016 enacted — PB2017 editionFY2017 enacted — PB2018 editionFY2018 enacted — PB2019 editionFY2019 enacted — PB2020 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2017 request — PB2017 editionFY2018 request — PB2018 editionFY2019 request — PB2019 editionFY2020 request — PB2020 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY15FY18FY20FY22FY24FY26

The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
SeriesFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$1.90M$1.89M$2.07M$5.48M$9.89M$7.78M$2.98M$2.83M$2.93M$3.03M
Enacted$1.94M$2.07M$2.55M$9.98M$8.04M$3.10M$2.92M$3.03M$3.11M$3.15M
Request$2.07M$2.55M$3.01M$3.04M$3.10M$2.92M$3.03M$3.11M$3.15M$2.49M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2019 book requested $3.01M for FY2019; the PB2021 book reported $9.89M as actual total obligation authority — $6.88M above the request. 9.93.0 = 6.9 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.

Program Lineage

No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.

Description

Mission Defense Operations Security Initiative (DOSI)

This RDT&E program supports the Department's initiatives to Defend the Homeland, Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage, and Taking Care of People. This program also supports DoD Data Strategy, specifically enabling next-generation approaches to protect data as it is a strategic asset. The Defense Operations Security Initiative (DOSI) establishes and leads the Department's next-generation Operations Security (OPSEC) capability development and affiliated investment strategy. Investments support DoD's current and emerging OPSEC capability gaps, including countering advances in non-U.S. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities and denying the understanding of U.S. capability, capacity, readiness, and critical technology and information from adversaries. These investments spur and accelerate Department innovation and preserve U.S. technology superiority. DOSI analysis and engineering lead the community's ability to sustain and maximize technology advantage as they are transitioned to Service and Agency programs for sustainment, maintenance, and capacity programming. Test and evaluation analyses establish measure and countermeasure effectiveness in current and emerging operational environments.

Mission Defense Operations Security Initiative

DOSI establishes and leads the Department's next-generation OPSEC capability development and affiliated investment strategy. Investments support DoD's current and emerging OPSEC capability gaps, including countering advances in non-U.S. ISR capabilities and denying the understanding of U.S. capability, capacity, readiness, and critical technology and information from adversaries. These investments spur Department innovation and preserve U.S. technology superiority. DOSI analyses and engineering activities lead the community's ability to sustain and maximize technology advantages as they are transitioned to Service and Agency programs for sustainment, maintenance, and capacity programming. Results of tests and evaluations enable the community to identify OPSEC measure and countermeasure effectiveness in current and emerging operational environments.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)

Defense Operations Security Initiative

RDT&E investments denied or complicated the ability of our adversary to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to understand U.S. capabilities, capacity, readiness, and critical technology and information. Past investments accelerated cutting-edge Department innovation toward preserving U.S. information and technology superiority. DOSI's analyses and engineering activities enabled the OPSEC community's ability to sustain and maximize technological advantages.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY24 Actuals$3.03M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY25 Enacted$3.15M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY25 Total$3.15M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY26 Disc. Request$2.49M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY26 Total$2.49M

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget Figures shows both.

Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$2.93M$3.03M$3.15M$2.49M$2.49M
345: Defense Operations Security Initiative$2.93M$3.03M$3.15M$2.49M$2.49M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

Lobbying Mentions

No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.

Oversight

Department-level designation (not specific to this program)

GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Defense Operations Security Initiative (DOSI) — no program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →