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C3I Cyber Advanced Development
Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $28.3M |
| FY25 | $39.6M |
| FY26 | $3.33M |
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
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.
| Series | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $25.5M | $43.4M | $61.4M | $41.4M | $28.3M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $23.8M | $43.4M | $61.4M | $41.4M | $28.8M | $39.6M | |
| Request | – | – | $13.8M | $23.4M | $31.4M | $41.4M | $28.8M | $19.6M | $3.33M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2022 book requested $31.4M for FY2022; the PB2024 book reported $61.4M as actual total obligation authority — $30.0M above the request. 61.4 − 31.4 = 30.0 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 — C3I Cyber Advanced Development
This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates technologies for offensive and defensive cyber operations in tactical environments. Projects optimize devices, techniques, services, software and algorithms to enable cyber situational understanding and Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA). For offensive cyber, efforts demonstrate integrated electronic attack (EA) and CEMA hardware and software to execute force protection (FP), EA, electronic surveillance (ES), signals intelligence (SIGINT), electronic warfare (EW) and cyber missions in a dynamic, distributed and coordinated fashion. For defensive cyber, efforts demonstrate hardware and software to protect tactical wired and wireless networks against modern cyber attacks and focuses 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 directly supports the Network Army Modernization Priority. 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 Advanced Technology
This Project demonstrates defensive effects to adversarial use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to avoid detection and deceive our automated technologies driving the network decisions. This Project will provide defensive cyber operations (DCO) software capabilities for multi-domain operations and enable tactical network cyber defenders with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602213A (C3I Applied Cyber) / Project CY6 (Autonomous Cyber 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 Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Information Trust Advanced Technology
This Project demonstrates enhanced awareness of the "provenance" / origin of data traversing the network from originator to consumer (e.g. sensor to shooter) in the presence of cyber-attacks, ensuring that the data can be trusted, has not been modified or manipulated, and has been authenticated for use in real-time decision making. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602213A (C3I Applied Cyber) / Project 2CY (Information Trust 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 Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Network Access and Effects Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates advanced mission management tools and workflows, to promote efficient selection and sequencing of effects to support the agile deployment and execution of Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) / Radio Frequency (RF) Enabled capabilities in the face of ever-advancing and evolving cyber security standards and practices adopted by industry and our adversaries that impede our ability to maintain cyber freedom of maneuver in support of Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). This includes automated mission planning, staging methodologies, and tools to evaluate and compare various courses of action that are dynamically replicated within appropriate rapid response environment(s). This Project will enable both mission planners and operators to cognitively keep pace with the complexity of near-peer engagements within Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602213A (C3I Applied Cyber) / Project 3CY (Network Access and Effects 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 Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — C3I Cyber Advanced Development
This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates technologies for offensive and defensive cyber operations in tactical environments. Projects optimize devices, techniques, services, software and algorithms to enable cyber situational understanding and Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA). For offensive cyber, efforts demonstrate integrated electronic attack (EA) and CEMA hardware and software to execute force protection (FP), EA, electronic surveillance (ES), signals intelligence (SIGINT), electronic warfare (EW) and cyber missions in a dynamic, distributed and coordinated fashion. For defensive cyber, efforts demonstrate hardware and software to protect tactical wired and wireless networks against modern cyber attacks and focuses 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 directly supports the Network Army Modernization Priority. 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 Advanced Technology
This Project demonstrates defensive effects to adversarial use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to avoid detection and deceive our automated technologies driving the network decisions. This Project will provide defensive cyber operations (DCO) software capabilities for multi-domain operations and enable tactical network cyber defenders with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602213A (C3I Applied Cyber) / Project CY6 (Autonomous Cyber 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 Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Information Trust Advanced Technology
This Project demonstrates enhanced awareness of the "provenance" / origin of data traversing the network from originator to consumer (e.g. sensor to shooter) in the presence of cyber-attacks, ensuring that the data can be trusted, has not been modified or manipulated, and has been authenticated for use in real-time decision making. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602213A (C3I Applied Cyber) / Project 2CY (Information Trust 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 Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Network Access and Effects Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates advanced mission management tools and workflows, to promote efficient selection and sequencing of effects to support the agile deployment and execution of Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) / Radio Frequency (RF) Enabled capabilities in the face of ever-advancing and evolving cyber security standards and practices adopted by industry and our adversaries that impede our ability to maintain cyber freedom of maneuver in support of Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). This includes automated mission planning, staging methodologies, and tools to evaluate and compare various courses of action that are dynamically replicated within appropriate rapid response environment(s). This Project will enable both mission planners and operators to cognitively keep pace with the complexity of near-peer engagements within Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602213A (C3I Applied Cyber) / Project 3CY (Network Access and Effects 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 Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (16)
Autonomous Cyber
This effort develops proof-of-concept sensors that can adapt to and autonomously react to adversary cyber-attack and develop a cyber response course of action decision aid for cyber defenders to validate suitability of actions and to speed response decisions.
Predictive Intelligent Networking - Cyber
This effort matures and validates network micro-segmentation methods based on tactical network constraints that employ artificial intelligence (AI) based advanced zero trust security features to autonomously identify, learn, predict, and react to changes in network operating conditions, enables optimized resource quarantining and ensures end-to-end network resiliency against adversarial AI-driven electronic attacks (EA), electronic warfare (EW), and cyberattacks.
Network Obscuration and Deception
Mature and demonstrate software based cyber obscuration technologies; for use by Cyber Protection Teams (CPTs) and other cyber defenders in enterprise and tactical environments, utilizing planned Garrison and Tactical defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Platforms; that imitate/mask networks, systems, hosts, users and files to distract/disrupt cyber attackers.
Tactical Hardening for Quantum
Enable faster migration from existing PKI algorithms to Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms that are safe from compromise by quantum computing. Demonstrate advanced encryption algorithms to secure Army tactical networks against quantum computing threats.
Information Trust Advanced Technology
This Project applies and demonstrates leading edge commercial technologies such as blockchain and machine learning to provide assurance that data has not been tampered with anywhere along the transmission chain from originator to consumer (e.g. sensor to shooter). This Project leverages automated algorithms to detect anomalies that may occur in the presence of cyber-attacks, such as an attempt to manipulate data traversing the network and alert decision makers.
PKI-Modernization/Dynamic Access Control for Tactical (DAC-T)
This effort will mature and demonstrate cryptographic algorithms that address Program Manager (PM) Mission Command (MC) gap of native ability to support PKI digital signature and Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) certificate validation for the Variable Message Format (VMF) standard MIL-STD-2045-47001D in Disconnected, Interrupted, and Low-bandwidth (DIL) Networks. Furthermore, the effort will also mature and demonstrate dynamic fine-grained access control that migrates the Army from a network-centric to data-centric access control in alignment with Advanced zero trust principles by enhancing, speeding up and automating account provisioning and access for people and non-Person entities (NPE) (e.g., sensors, devices, web services, etc.). This will significantly reduce the workload/ burden for the soldier and improve the networks security posture by enforcing least privilege & just-in-time network access.
Tactical Zero Trust
This effort will mature and demonstrate concepts of Zero Trust that can be adapted to tactical network architectures including, non-person entities (NPE) (e.g., systems, applications, devices, robotic process automation (RPA) & services). It will mature and demonstrate an efficient data-in-use service to limit decryption and exfiltration of high value information. This effort will include graceful degradation of capability for Person/NPE access based on Indicators of Compromise (IoC). It will mature and demonstrate open standard methods to create playbooks while assuring safe parallel execution of such playbooks. This effort will mature and demonstrate a capability that performs adversarial assessments on machine learning models to make them more robust to adversarial manipulation.
Network Exploitation Research and Development (NERD) Advanced Technology
This effort matures computer assisted/automated development of Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO)/Radio Frequency (RF) enabled effects against emerging and validated targets of interest (TOI) in conjunction with exploration of non- traditional attack vectors. Matures automated mission planning and staging methodologies and tools to evaluate and compare various courses of actions that are dynamically replicated within appropriate rapid response environment to enable both mission planner and operators to cognitively keep pace with the complexity of near-peer engagements within Multi-Domain Operations (MDO).
Autonomous Cyber
This effort develops proof-of-concept sensors that can adapt to and autonomously react to adversary cyber-attack and develop a cyber response course of action decision aid for cyber defenders to validate suitability of actions and to speed response decisions.
Predictive Intelligent Networking - Cyber
This effort matures and validates network micro-segmentation methods based on tactical network constraints that employ artificial intelligence (AI) based advanced zero trust security features to autonomously identify, learn, predict, and react to changes in network operating conditions, enables optimized resource quarantining and ensures end-to-end network resiliency against adversarial AI-driven electronic attacks (EA), electronic warfare (EW), and cyberattacks.
Network Obscuration and Deception
Mature and demonstrate software based cyber obscuration technologies; for use by Cyber Protection Teams (CPTs) and other cyber defenders in enterprise and tactical environments, utilizing planned Garrison and Tactical defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Platforms; that imitate/mask networks, systems, hosts, users and files to distract/disrupt cyber attackers.
Tactical Hardening for Quantum
Enable faster migration from existing PKI algorithms to Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms that are safe from compromise by quantum computing. Demonstrate advanced encryption algorithms to secure Army tactical networks against quantum computing threats.
Information Trust Advanced Technology
This Project applies and demonstrates leading edge commercial technologies such as blockchain and machine learning to provide assurance that data has not been tampered with anywhere along the transmission chain from originator to consumer (e.g. sensor to shooter). This Project leverages automated algorithms to detect anomalies that may occur in the presence of cyber-attacks, such as an attempt to manipulate data traversing the network and alert decision makers.
PKI-Modernization/Dynamic Access Control for Tactical (DAC-T)
This effort will mature and demonstrate cryptographic algorithms that address Program Manager (PM) Mission Command (MC) gap of native ability to support PKI digital signature and Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) certificate validation for the Variable Message Format (VMF) standard MIL-STD-2045-47001D in Disconnected, Interrupted, and Low-bandwidth (DIL) Networks. Furthermore, the effort will also mature and demonstrate dynamic fine-grained access control that migrates the Army from a network-centric to data-centric access control in alignment with Advanced zero trust principles by enhancing, speeding up and automating account provisioning and access for people and non-Person entities (NPE) (e.g., sensors, devices, web services, etc.). This will significantly reduce the workload/ burden for the soldier and improve the networks security posture by enforcing least privilege & just-in-time network access.
Tactical Zero Trust
This effort will mature and demonstrate concepts of Zero Trust that can be adapted to tactical network architectures including, non-person entities (NPE) (e.g., systems, applications, devices, robotic process automation (RPA) & services). It will mature and demonstrate an efficient data-in-use service to limit decryption and exfiltration of high value information. This effort will include graceful degradation of capability for Person/NPE access based on Indicators of Compromise (IoC). It will mature and demonstrate open standard methods to create playbooks while assuring safe parallel execution of such playbooks. This effort will mature and demonstrate a capability that performs adversarial assessments on machine learning models to make them more robust to adversarial manipulation.
Network Exploitation Research and Development (NERD) Advanced Technology
This effort matures computer assisted/automated development of Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO)/Radio Frequency (RF) enabled effects against emerging and validated targets of interest (TOI) in conjunction with exploration of non- traditional attack vectors. Matures automated mission planning and staging methodologies and tools to evaluate and compare various courses of actions that are dynamically replicated within appropriate rapid response environment to enable both mission planner and operators to cognitively keep pace with the complexity of near-peer engagements within Multi-Domain Operations (MDO).
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $28.3M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $39.6M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $39.6M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $3.33M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Total | $3.33M |
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.
| Project | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $28.3M | $39.6M | $3.33M | $3.33M |
| 8CY: Information Trust Advanced Technology | $11.2M | $24.2M | $3.33M | $3.33M |
| 6CY: Autonomous Cyber Advanced Technology | $7.33M | $5.85M | — | — |
| 9CY: Network Access and Effects Advanced Technology | $9.76M | $9.58M | — | — |
Follow the dollar
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Awards
No awards are linked to this program element at high or medium 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 C3I Cyber Advanced Development. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J52
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2020 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J61
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2020_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2021 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J65
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2021_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2022 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J43
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2022_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J44
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2023_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J44
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J43
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.
RDTE - Vol 1 - Budget Activity 2 · www.asafm.army.mil
RDTE - Vol 1 - Budget Activity 1 · www.asafm.army.mil