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Electronic Warfare Cyber Applied Research

ARDT&EFully Reconciled0602276A
What it is
Electronic Warfare Cyber Applied Research — a research & development program run by Army.
What changed
No FY25→26 comparison — trajectory data incomplete for this line.
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
FY25 Total
FY26 Request
$17.1M
FY25→26 Change

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

Insufficient trajectory data for sparkline (only FY26 available).

Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY26FY26

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

SeriesFY26
Request$17.1M

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 Electronic Warfare Cyber Applied Research

This Program Element (PE) investigates and develops architectures, technologies, techniques, components, and tools to enhance Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) for Multi-Domain Joint Operations in tactical environments. These efforts aim to counter the adversary's Command, Control, Computing, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Targeting (C-C5ISR&T) capabilities and plan, target, execute Cyber effects through the employment of non-traditional access and effect vectors against adversarial systems, communication networks, and decision centers to reduce the adversary's ability to execute command and control of its forces. Additionally, these efforts will protect tactical wired and wireless networks against modern cyber-attacks, focusing on configuration, operation, monitoring, data integrity, and defense in bandwidth constrained tactical environments while reducing the operator workload required to conduct these functions. This PE will investigate key technologies that create windows of opportunity to provide significant operational advantage over adversaries. It will increase unit survivability and maneuverability and enhance the employment of non-kinetic effects in highly contested and congested electromagnetic environments. Work in this PE complements PE 0603276A (Electronic Warfare Cyber Advance Technology). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.

Mission Autonomous Cyber Technology

This project investigates and applies robust cyber security techniques and applications to advanced communications and networking devices, software, algorithms and protocols utilized within wireless tactical networks to protect against nation state level Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) and maintain Warfighter confidence in network information, resources, identities and mission partners by hardening the blue force attack surface. This project investigates RF-enabled cyber approaches to Disrupt, Deny, Degrade, Destroy and Manipulate (D4M) adversary C2ISR systems and capabilities. Furthermore, in full alignment with ARCYBER "reprogrammability" efforts, this project will also focus on establishing new methodologies for the development of EW / OCO effects that are more readily implemented, upgradable and portable across different Army platforms. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0603276A (Electronic Warfare Cyber Advanced Technology) / Project A80 (Autonomous Cyber Advanced Technology). 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) and Command, Control, Computer, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.

Mission Autonomous Cyber Technology

This project investigates and applies robust cyber security techniques and applications to advanced communications and networking devices, software, algorithms and protocols utilized within wireless tactical networks to protect against nation state level Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) and maintain Warfighter confidence in network information, resources, identities and mission partners by hardening the blue force attack surface. This project investigates RF-enabled cyber approaches to Disrupt, Deny, Degrade, Destroy and Manipulate (D4M) adversary C2ISR systems and capabilities. Furthermore, in full alignment with ARCYBER "reprogrammability" efforts, this project will also focus on establishing new methodologies for the development of EW / OCO effects that are more readily implemented, upgradable and portable across different Army platforms. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0603276A (Electronic Warfare Cyber Advanced Technology) / Project A80 (Autonomous Cyber Advanced Technology). 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) and Command, Control, Computer, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.

Mission Electronic Warfare Cyber Applied Research

This Program Element (PE) investigates and develops architectures, technologies, techniques, components, and tools to enhance Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) for Multi-Domain Joint Operations in tactical environments. These efforts aim to counter the adversary's Command, Control, Computing, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Targeting (C-C5ISR&T) capabilities and plan, target, execute Cyber effects through the employment of non-traditional access and effect vectors against adversarial systems, communication networks, and decision centers to reduce the adversary's ability to execute command and control of its forces. Additionally, these efforts will protect tactical wired and wireless networks against modern cyber-attacks, focusing on configuration, operation, monitoring, data integrity, and defense in bandwidth constrained tactical environments while reducing the operator workload required to conduct these functions. This PE will investigate key technologies that create windows of opportunity to provide significant operational advantage over adversaries. It will increase unit survivability and maneuverability and enhance the employment of non-kinetic effects in highly contested and congested electromagnetic environments. Work in this PE complements PE 0603276A (Electronic Warfare Cyber Advance Technology). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (6)

Proactive Cyber Defense

This effort designs and characterizes software for the protection of information and networks in wireless tactical environments. The goal is to develop software algorithms that detect and defeat malicious activities of adversaries in bandwidth and highly resource constrained tactical networks and maintain agile, adaptive cyber maneuver. This research provides automated active defense (e.g., machine learning, anomaly detection, and decision aids) and adversarial resilient techniques to maintain cyber superiority (e.g., improved attack detection, advanced network traffic analysis, and predictive decision aids) against a large attack surface at the edge.

Predictive Intelligent Networking (PIN)

Investigate and develop various design patterns of Network Micro-segmentation to determine the lowest viable level of segmentation for the tactical network. Investigate and develop implementations in support of advanced zero trust concepts. This effort researches methods to enable the tactical network to autonomously identify, learn, predict, and react to changes in network operating conditions and network threats to ensure end-to-end network resiliency against adversarial AI-driven electronic attacks (EA) and cyberattacks.

RF Enabled Offensive Effects Technology

This effort investigates new methodologies for Disrupt, Deny, Degrade, Destroy and Manipulate (D4M) RF enabled cyber effects from Army tactical systems that are in RF proximity to adversary threat C2ISR capabilities. Research also focuses on novel EW technique approaches to keep pace with new threats and provide greater portability across all applicable Army systems. The effort will investigate new methodologies to counter adversary Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities across multiple modalities.

Proactive Cyber Defense

This effort designs and characterizes software for the protection of information and networks in wireless tactical environments. The goal is to develop software algorithms that detect and defeat malicious activities of adversaries in bandwidth and highly resource constrained tactical networks and maintain agile, adaptive cyber maneuver. This research provides automated active defense (e.g., machine learning, anomaly detection, and decision aids) and adversarial resilient techniques to maintain cyber superiority (e.g., improved attack detection, advanced network traffic analysis, and predictive decision aids) against a large attack surface at the edge.

RF Enabled Offensive Effects Technology

This effort investigates new methodologies for Disrupt, Deny, Degrade, Destroy and Manipulate (D4M) RF enabled cyber effects from Army tactical systems that are in RF proximity to adversary threat C2ISR capabilities. Research also focuses on novel EW technique approaches to keep pace with new threats and provide greater portability across all applicable Army systems. The effort will investigate new methodologies to counter adversary Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities across multiple modalities.

Predictive Intelligent Networking (PIN)

Investigate and develop various design patterns of Network Micro-segmentation to determine the lowest viable level of segmentation for the tactical network. Investigate and develop implementations in support of advanced zero trust concepts. This effort researches methods to enable the tactical network to autonomously identify, learn, predict, and react to changes in network operating conditions and network threats to ensure end-to-end network resiliency against adversarial AI-driven electronic attacks (EA) and cyberattacks.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY26 Disc. Request$17.1M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY26 Total$17.1M

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

ProjectFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$17.1M$17.1M
A79: Autonomous Cyber Technology$17.1M$17.1M

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? →