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Cyber Collaborative Research Alliance
Budget Figures
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? →
- FY24
- $5.46M
- FY25
- $5.53M
- FY26
- $5.46M
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $4.98M | $5.08M | $5.07M | $5.36M | $5.46M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $4.98M | $5.08M | $5.07M | $5.36M | $5.46M | $5.53M | |
| Request | – | – | $4.98M | $5.08M | $5.07M | $5.36M | $5.46M | $5.53M | $5.46M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
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 — Cyber Collaborative Research Alliance
This Program Element (PE) fosters research performed through the Cyber Security Collaborative Research Alliance (CSEC CRA), a competitively selected consortium, formed to advance the theoretical foundations of cyber science in the context of Army networks. This CRA consists of academia, industry and government researchers working jointly with the objective of developing a fundamental understanding of cyber phenomena so that fundamental laws, theories, and theoretically grounded and empirically validated models can be applied to a broad range of Army domains, applications, and environments. This research focuses on three interrelated aspects of cyber security and is conducted using a trans-disciplinary approach that takes into account the human element of the network. The three aspects of cyber that are addressed are: 1) vulnerabilities and risks of cyber networks to malicious activities, 2) anticipating, detecting, and analyzing malicious activities, and 3) agile cyber maneuver to thwart and defeat malicious activities. Overarching goals of cyber security are to significantly decrease the adversary's return on investment when considering cyber attack on Army networks, and minimizing the impact on Army network performance related to implementing cyber security. The CRA research creates a framework that effectively integrates the knowledge of cyber assets and potential adversary capabilities and approaches, and provides defense mechanisms that dynamically adjust to changes related to mission, assets, vulnerability state, and defense mechanisms. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.054 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative."
Mission — Cyber Collaborative Research Alliance
This Project fosters cyber research, performed by a competitively selected consortium, formed to advance the theoretical foundations of cyber science in the context of Army networks. This work consists of academia, industry, and government researchers working jointly to develop a fundamental understanding of cyber phenomena so that fundamental laws, theories, and theoretically grounded and empirically validated models can be applied to a broad range of Army domains, applications, and environments. This research focuses on three interrelated cyber aspects and is conducted using a trans-disciplinary approach that takes into account the human element of the network. The three aspects of cyber that are addressed are: 1) adaptive reasoning for deception, 2) anticipating, detecting, and analyzing malicious activities, and 3) agile cyber maneuver to thwart and defeat malicious activities. The overarching goals are to significantly decrease the adversary's return on investment when considering cyber-attack on Army networks and minimizing the impact on Army network performance. This research creates a framework that effectively integrates the knowledge of cyber assets and potential adversary capabilities and approaches and provides defense mechanisms that dynamically adjust to changes related to mission, assets, vulnerability state, and defense mechanisms. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
Mission — Cyber Collaborative Research Alliance
This Program Element (PE) fosters research performed through the Cyber Security Collaborative Research Alliance (CSEC CRA), a competitively selected consortium, formed to advance the theoretical foundations of cyber science in the context of Army networks. This CRA consists of academia, industry and government researchers working jointly with the objective of developing a fundamental understanding of cyber phenomena so that fundamental laws, theories, and theoretically grounded and empirically validated models can be applied to a broad range of Army domains, applications, and environments. This research focuses on three interrelated aspects of cyber security and is conducted using a trans-disciplinary approach that takes into account the human element of the network. The three aspects of cyber that are addressed are: 1) vulnerabilities and risks of cyber networks to malicious activities, 2) anticipating, detecting, and analyzing malicious activities, and 3) agile cyber maneuver to thwart and defeat malicious activities. Overarching goals of cyber security are to significantly decrease the adversary's return on investment when considering cyber attack on Army networks, and minimizing the impact on Army network performance related to implementing cyber security. The CRA research creates a framework that effectively integrates the knowledge of cyber assets and potential adversary capabilities and approaches, and provides defense mechanisms that dynamically adjust to changes related to mission, assets, vulnerability state, and defense mechanisms. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.054 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative."
Mission — Cyber Collaborative Research Alliance
This Project fosters cyber research, performed by a competitively selected consortium, formed to advance the theoretical foundations of cyber science in the context of Army networks. This work consists of academia, industry, and government researchers working jointly to develop a fundamental understanding of cyber phenomena so that fundamental laws, theories, and theoretically grounded and empirically validated models can be applied to a broad range of Army domains, applications, and environments. This research focuses on three interrelated cyber aspects and is conducted using a trans-disciplinary approach that takes into account the human element of the network. The three aspects of cyber that are addressed are: 1) adaptive reasoning for deception, 2) anticipating, detecting, and analyzing malicious activities, and 3) agile cyber maneuver to thwart and defeat malicious activities. The overarching goals are to significantly decrease the adversary's return on investment when considering cyber-attack on Army networks and minimizing the impact on Army network performance. This research creates a framework that effectively integrates the knowledge of cyber assets and potential adversary capabilities and approaches and provides defense mechanisms that dynamically adjust to changes related to mission, assets, vulnerability state, and defense mechanisms. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)
Adversarial-resilient Cyber Effects for Decision Dominance
Conduct foundational research to create innovative theories, models, and methods to understand, create, predict, and exploit Windows of Superiority (WoS) across the cyberspace-network to achieve operational advantage for Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) synchronization and convergence across domains. This effort seeks to identify, formalize, and measure the key attributes/features in the cyber domain that can identify and predict WoS. This effort will develop theories and methods to identify and predict emerging WoS and techniques to shape the cyber domain to achieve WoS, including cyber resilience and deception to mitigate adversarial deception, intrusions, and adversarial machine learning (AML) attacks.
Adversarial-resilient Cyber Effects for Decision Dominance
Conduct foundational research to create innovative theories, models, and methods to understand, create, predict, and exploit Windows of Superiority (WoS) across the cyberspace-network to achieve operational advantage for Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) synchronization and convergence across domains. This effort seeks to identify, formalize, and measure the key attributes/features in the cyber domain that can identify and predict WoS. This effort will develop theories and methods to identify and predict emerging WoS and techniques to shape the cyber domain to achieve WoS, including cyber resilience and deception to mitigate adversarial deception, intrusions, and adversarial machine learning (AML) attacks.
Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $5.46M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $5.53M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $5.53M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $5.46M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Total | $5.46M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
| Project | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $5.46M | $5.53M | $5.46M | $5.46M |
| CB5: Cyber Collaborative Research Alliance | $5.46M | $5.53M | $5.46M | $5.46M |
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 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.
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →