Following the creation of the Constellation pilot program launched in 2022 by U.S. Cyber Command and DARPA, the organizations recently signed a new binding agreement establishing the joint governance structure, roles, responsibilities, and budgeting goals to enable future planning.
Under the Constellation program, DARPA and Cyber Command are creating an expedited pathway for delivering cyber technologies from the laboratory to the cyber battlefield. The program encompasses a user-directed, incremental, and iterative pipeline to accelerate the creation, proving, adoption, and delivery of new cyberspace capabilities into the command’s software ecosystem. DARPA research and development projects are chosen by the command and executed via the Orion Consortium, which consists of DARPA performers and Cyber Command developers working collaboratively to deliver capabilities.