Mission Campaigns (MC) are transient, strategically focused investment areas that bridge science, technology, and engineering, positioning the Labs to effectively address future national security challenges.
Vision
Disciplined systems engineering processes support systems-level tradeoffs against digital assurance.
Mission
Develop the scientific foundation needed to create rigorous, rapid, cost-effective, generalizable digital assurance across high consequence systems’ lifecycles.
Digital Assurance for High Consequence Systems Mission Campaign
Sandia National Laboratories’ Digital Assurance for High Consequence Systems (DAHCS, pronounced “Dax”) Mission Campaign (MC) is a 7-year, $45 million research portfolio within Sandia’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program. The DAHCS MC arose in response to a great need: to ensure that the use of digital technologies does not weaken our high consequence systems.
Sandia has a responsibility to create effective, safe, secure, and resilient systems. We have a vital role in providing the nation’s nuclear deterrent as well as advancing critical missions such as hypersonics, space, and critical infrastructure. In recent decades, Sandia has been called upon to create products at a higher complexity than ever before. Digital technologies offer many benefits in speed, cost, and flexibility, and we seek to reap those benefits without introducing new system failures. However, digital technologies cannot be evaluated the same way as analog technologies. Today, across the nation, we lack the means to efficiently evaluate digital technologies with rigor and confidence.
The DAHCS Mission Campaign seeks to address this gap by creating efficient tools, techniques, and methods to confidently characterize, assess, and manage digital risks to our high consequence systems.
For more information on the DAHCS MC, read our whitepaper.
