US Cyber Command’s budget request for financial year 2026 includes funding to start a new project specifically for artificial intelligence.
Although the budget proposal allocates only $ 5 million for the effort – a small part of the research and development spending plan of $ 1.3 billion in cybercom – the program stand -up follows the management of the congress to cause command to develop an AI roadmap.
In the bill on the defense policies for the 2023 financial year, the Congress accused Cybercom and the information director of the Ministry of Defense – in coordination with the chief agency of digital and artificial intelligence, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, director of the National Security Agency and the Subsecrétaire de la Défense for Research and Engineering of five years and a data management data management plan for applications, adoption support applications and data applications for rapid adoption.
Cybercom created its roadmap shortly after a working group on AI.
The new project in the Cybercom R&D budget aims to develop basic data standards in order to manage and label data that meet these standards to effectively integrate data into artificial intelligence solutions and machine while developing artificial intelligence capacities more effectively to meet operational needs.
The effort is directly linked to the task of advancing the roadmap.
Following this roadmap, the command decided to house its working group in its Cyber National Elite mission force.
The order created the program by removing funds from its operations and maintenance budget and by passing them to the R&D budget for the 2025 financial year at the year 2026.
The order has described five categories of various AI applications in its company and other organizations, including vulnerabilities and exploits; Safety, monitoring and visualization of the network; predictive modeling and analysis; Personality and identity; and infrastructure and transport.
More specifically, the order of the order of the order, the artificial intelligence for cyberspace operations, will aim to develop and carry out pilots while investing in infrastructure to take advantage of the commercial capacities of AI. The Command Cyber-Immersion Laboratory will develop, test and evaluate cyber capacities and carry out operational evaluations carried out by third parties, according to budgetary documents.
During the financial year 2026, the command plans to spend the $ 5 million to support the CNMF in the management of AI technologies through an agile 90 -day pilot cycle, according to documents, which will ensure a quick success or failure. This fast rhythm methodology allows the CNMF to quickly test and validate solutions against operational use cases with flexibility to adapt to the evolution of cyber players.
The CNMF will also seek to explore the means to improve threat detection, automate data analysis and improve decision -making processes in cyber operations, according to budgetary documents.
