The Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations (CONFERS) was a program started by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2017. The goal was to address the lack of widely accepted technical and safety standards for on-orbit servicing activities involving commercial satellites. In partnership with NASA, the CONFERS program was to establish a permanent, self-sustaining, and independent forum where industry could engage with the U.S. Government to collaborate and create standards for on-orbit servicing.