Budget Analysis: Army Procurement and RDTE Programs Spending on Cybersecurity and Warfare in FY 2023

Published: June 15, 2022

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Based on an analysis of the DOD’s fiscal 2023 budget request, the U.S. Army intends to spend $743M on Procurement and RDT&E programs leveraging cybersecurity/warfare technology.

Every Spring, Deltek’s Federal Market Analysis (FMA) team takes a thorough look at the Department of Defense’s Procurement and Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation (RDT&E) budget requests for the fiscal year to come. The late release of the budget this year delayed that process up to this point.

As a reminder, FMA identifies programs using keywords that invest in certain technologies of importance to the contractor community. These technologies include cloud computing, big data analytics, cybersecurity/electronic weaponry, and others. FMA’s analysis of the U.S. Army’s fiscal 2023 Procurement and RDT&E budget requests is now complete, while the analysis of the rest of DOD’s budget is partially complete.

The Army data reveals an intent to spend $743M on programs that use or prepare for the use of cybersecurity/warfare technology in one way or another. This is up $35M from the $708M enacted for FY 2022.

Splitting the total numbers by Budget Activity yields the following insight.

Identifying the specific cyber spend in every program is impossible due to the nature of the reported data. Readers should keep in mind, therefore, that the numbers presented here are the requested budgets for programs that plan to use cyber technology for a specific purpose (e.g., security, testing, weaponry, etc.). The numbers presented here should not be considered the Army’s entire cyber-related budget for FY 2022. They are best thought of as a signpost indicating which Army program offices are spending on cyber and the potential amounts they could spend on it.

Planned Investment by Largest Programs

The chart below lists the Army programs with a cyber component that FMA could identify arranged from largest to smallest in dollar terms.

Summing up, because the totals shown are from the Procurement and RDT&E budget requests it means that the work involved could be new and available to contractors if a contract for it is competed.