Program · Outcome 1: Defend Australia from global threats and advance our national interests through the provision of foreign signals intelligence, cyber security and offensive cyber operations, as directed by Government.
Program 1.1 - Foreign Signals Intelligence, Cyber Security and Offensive Cyber Operations
To defend Australia from global threats and advance our national interests through the provision of foreign signals intelligence, cyber security and offensive cyber operations, as directed by Government.
Australian Signals Directorate, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 12 reported
$3.3bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$272m (+9.1%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expenses funded by appropriation and own source revenue | departmental | $1.7bn | $1.9bn | +$196m +11.2% | reported | Table 3: Budgeted Expenses for Outcome 1, row 281 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation | departmental | $603m | $663m | +$60m +9.9% | reported | Table 3: Budgeted Expenses for Outcome 1, row 282 |
| Capital expenditure funded by appropriation | departmental | $629m | $646m | +$17m +2.7% | reported | Table 3: Budgeted Expenses for Outcome 1, row 283 |