Standards&Compliance

European Cooperation for Space Standardization (E-ST-40, Q-ST-80)

The European framework for space software engineering and product assurance: requirements definition, verification, validation, and documented lifecycle discipline.

How ConstellationOS maps: Requirements are traced to tests; deterministic simulation runs serve as reproducible verification evidence; releases carry the documentation trail ECSS reviews expect. The platform's simulation-first validation model was designed to produce ECSS-style evidence as a byproduct of normal operation.

RTCA DO-178C / EUROCAE ED-12C — software considerations in airborne systems

The reference discipline for safety-critical flight software: requirements-based testing, structural coverage, and tool qualification, graded by failure-condition severity.

How ConstellationOS maps: ConstellationOS is ground software, not avionics — so we apply DO-178C principles where they matter: requirements-based test coverage on every path that can command an asset, severity-graded review gates, and qualification thinking for the automation tooling itself. Autonomy is envelope-bounded so the criticality of any automated path is explicit and reviewable.

SAE ARP4754A (development of civil aircraft systems) / ARP4761 (safety assessment)

Systems-engineering and safety-assessment processes: functional hazard assessment, fault trees, and failure-mode analysis performed before systems fly.

How ConstellationOS maps: Every automated function ships with a failure-mode analysis: what happens when a forecast is wrong, a link drops mid-command, or a scheduler conflicts. Degradation modes are designed first — automation fails toward operator control, never away from it — and hazard analyses are part of the feature definition, not an afterthought.

Aerospace quality management systems

The aerospace QMS family: configuration management, traceability, nonconformance control, and supplier management expected across primes and agencies.

How ConstellationOS maps: Configuration-managed, traceable builds with gated promotion from development through staging to production; nonconformances tracked to closure; third-party components inventoried and reviewed. The release pipeline is the QMS artifact.

NIST Cybersecurity Framework and security control catalog

The reference control families for federal-grade systems: access control, audit and accountability, system and communications protection, integrity monitoring.

How ConstellationOS maps: The platform's control surface is mapped against 800-53 families: least-privilege IAM throughout, immutable audit logging on every decision path, integrity-checked ingestion, and continuous monitoring with alarms on every boundary. Control mapping is maintained as an engineering document your assessors can review.

NIST SP 800-207 Zero Trust architecture principles

No implicit trust from network location: every request authenticated and authorized per-identity, per-resource, continuously.

How ConstellationOS maps: Every API call carries a per-tenant credential verified against server-side hashes — there are no network-trusted paths, including between internal services. Tenant identity is enforced at the gateway and re-checked at the data layer, so a request cannot reach another tenant's data even by misconfiguration. Networking is private by default; public surface is intentional and enumerable.

Cryptographic module validation requirements

The US/Canadian standard for validated cryptographic modules — the baseline for federal cryptography.

How ConstellationOS maps: Platform cryptography is built on cloud KMS and TLS stacks that use FIPS 140-3 validated modules, with per-tenant customer-managed keys and envelope encryption for data at rest. We do not implement our own cryptographic primitives anywhere in the stack.

Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program deployment considerations

The US federal authorization program for cloud services, with inheritance from authorized infrastructure providers.

How ConstellationOS maps: ConstellationOS operates in AWS GovCloud (US) today, on infrastructure holding FedRAMP High authorization — maximizing control inheritance. The architecture keeps the platform-specific control surface small and documentable, so agency authorization efforts start from inherited controls, not from zero.

International Traffic in Arms Regulations / Export Administration Regulations

US export-control regimes governing technical data related to defense articles and dual-use technology.

How ConstellationOS maps: Deployment enclaves pin data residency to jurisdiction; access controls support US-person restrictions where engagements require them; and export-classification review is part of the contracting process. Export-controlled telemetry never transits shared infrastructure.

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification / protection of CUI

The defense industrial base's requirements for protecting controlled unclassified information, assessed under CMMC.

How ConstellationOS maps: The 800-171 control families — access control, audit, encryption, incident response — are implemented in the platform's isolation and logging design described above, giving defense primes an inheritable foundation for their own CMMC scope. Readiness documentation maps each family to the responsible boundary.