"Cyber Fast Track is a DARPA program that was originally announced at last year's ShmooCon. It took over 9 months of effort to work through government contracting, legal requirements, and DoD management to allow the program to go live in August of 2011. Just two months into the program it has already received 22 proposals, funded 8 projects, and shown an unprecedented turn around time from receipt of proposals to having performers on contract and working their research projects in an average of 7 days! This talk will look at the challenges, motivation, and ingenuity of the people behind the Cyber Fast Track effort and of those making use of it to fund their research efforts."