U.S. CYBER COMMAND, DARPA INITIATE RAPID CYBER CAPABILITY PROTOTYPING AND INTEGRATION PILOT
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The United States Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are kicking off a pilot program aimed at getting new cyber capabilities into the hands of cyber operators faster.
Known as Constellation, the pilot program will enable the flow of new cyber capabilities resulting from high-risk, high-reward cyber science and technology (S&T) research by creating a user-directed, incremental, and iterative pipeline to accelerate the creation, proving, adoption, and delivery of those capabilities into CYBERCOM’s software ecosystem.
Constellation will provide a framework and create mechanisms to provide virtual and physical infrastructure, people and contracts, sustainment of relationships required to bridge the gap between science and technology, research, development, and operational warfighting capabilities, and feedback to the S&T community regarding evolving cyber threats and mission needs.