Our Mission Challenge

We seek to create an ecosystem of compatible tools, techniques, and methods that gives us confidence in the digital assurance of our high consequence systems. Along the way, we aim to develop the scientific foundation needed to create rigorous, rapid, cost-effective, generalizable digital assurance across high-consequence systems’ lifecycles.

At the highest level, we must be able to:

• Characterize the digital technologies within our systems at any point in their lifecycles, including design, qualification, and sustainment
• Assess the risks to our systems from digital technologies and adversaries, moving well beyond vulnerability-focused security
• Select among design and implementation options that appropriately manage and accept digital risks while balancing against other trade-offs (for example, resilience, safety, size, weight, power, cost)